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Posts from ‘March, 2007’

oxymorons

In the hall the other day, a former student of mine who is now in grad school said he wanted to show me something funny. For one of his courses one of the textbooks is a book about aesthetics. The strange thing is - it’s one of the ugliest books! Hmm… ugly aesthetics?! See below…

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two milestones

This is a super-fast update for those who are checking in periodically. Megan was able to go home last evening (Tuesday) without having to have the blood transfusion they thought they might have to give her. She slept well, being back home. Drew has been moved to the “phase two” room and is making steady [...]

excuses for not going to work…

Our daughter Nora and I are both taking two personal days at the end of this week to go to Detroit. It will be very nice to have company on the way up. As of now, we plan to leave at about 5:00 Wednesday afternoon and drive straight through. Ugh! That will give us most [...]

our new grandson

(If you read this blog post before Saturday evening at 9:45 EST, you didn’t see the latest pictures I was able to get this evening. I’ve added them at the end of this blog post.)
Friday, March 9, our phone rang at 1:50 a.m. It was our son-in-law Jim calling to let us know that they [...]

changing times

Those of you in the U.S. have to remember that we’re changing to daylight savings time this weekend. I don’t know why, but it takes me about a week to adjust completely each time we make this change, but especially in the spring when I’m already tired and then have to lose a precious hour [...]