Once a year, Ellen goes to New York for a book festival for almost a week, like this last week typically leaving Sunday morning and returning Thursday evening. I will note in passing that when Ellen goes to New York, she takes the bus; when I go, I take the train. One wonders what conclusions [...]
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So yesterday among other things I proved (once again) that I know literally nothing about cars. As I was driving back from a customer meeting the alternator/battery light came on in my car. After a few moments I realized that steering had become more difficult, though possible. I called the place I take my car [...]
On weekends I generally try and get things done that I do not get to during the week, both at work and in my on-line classes I teach. However, almost always I am able to avoid accomplishing too much by wandering over to youtube and getting side-tracked in watching video’s. While I am wasting time [...]
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Yesterday, Thursday morning, we started our second annual Spring training visit to see the Nationals. We were up at 5:15am to get ready to drive to the airport to fly to Florida. Starting with a temperature in the 20’s in Rockville MD, we landed to a temperature in the 70’s in West Palm Beach. We [...]
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In 2009, our family went to China to see a solar eclipse. This was the second solar eclipse we had gone to, the first being in Turkey in 2006, but this time we also took our daughters, Miriam and Tamar with us. In Wuhan, where we watched the eclipse we were joined by an American [...]
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February 15th was my 30th anniversary, which I will likely comment on in a separate post. Ellen and I decided that we would do our 30th anniversary ‘stuff’ later this year. Not everyone would understand this reference but this is not dissimilar to many American Jewish families who don’t like the time of year their [...]
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We started our penultimate day on our Nova Scotia adventure by going to the Cows manufacturing plant where they make cheese, most recently butter, and most important what is considered by a number of sources the best ice cream in the world, www.cows.ca. We took the tour along with a number of other visitors, including [...]
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Today was Anne of Green Gables all day, all the time. For those of you who haven’t read the books (I haven’t) nor seen the TV shows/movies (I only vaguely remember them) it might be a wonder that a fictional character has this kind of impact. I think that LM Montgomery, who wrote the books, [...]
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Today was our transition from the first part of our trip, in Cape Breton Island, to Prince Edwards Island. Interestingly when we asked people in Cape Breton about PEI, they almost always said that it was pretty nice but they rarely visited there. One person described PEI as a potato field surrounded by water which [...]
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Tuesday was a leisurely day starting in Ingonish on the East side of Cape Breton about half-way down the coast, completing the loop we started yesterday, swinging back in a circle through Baddeck and ending up in the early afternoon in Mabou, at the bottom of the west side of Cape Breton. The Lantern Inn [...]
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