Bardiac

I had a meeting with one of our HR folks about retirement stuff, making sure I understand what I need to understand, when to do things, and ...

 We've come back "under contract" now, and so it's time to get ready for the new school year.  We have two weeks til class...

Since a couple of people kindly asked, yes, indeed, I'm planning to retire during summer of 2023. As to what I'll do when I retire? ...

 I've been chair for two years now, and am looking into the final year before I retire.  So this is a little weird.  Everything for the ...

It's been a while. I sort of posted a what's up post in January .  My Mom spent the last of December and the first third of January ...

 I was in one of those meetings with people where we were supposed to talk about assessment stuffs, and the question came up:  Assume you ha...

We just finished spring break, but it didn't feel like much of a break.  I went to visit my Mom and things remain pretty much as they ar...

Things continue on.  My Mom's really not improving, and my expectations are that she won't.   My brother is amazing, and continues t...

Thanks for the kind words everyone.  Things with my Mom are stable in terms of physical health, but up and down in terms of mental stuff.  L...

 Mom's in rehab, doing... okay.  She's more confused than she'd been before, but things seem to be improving somewhat.  She does...

Things are better... There was a lot of sitting around in my Mom's hospital room waiting.  And then more waiting. On Thursday, they fina...

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. Today was much better.  My Mom fed herself her meals, and ate them well.  (Yesterday she'd eat a fe...

 More waiting.  And worrying. I came Christmas day, met up with my brother, and came to see my Mom.  She was grumpy in that way and okish. T...

 My Mom fell a week or so before Christmas, and then had an episode of ... sort of not being there or something, so they took her back to th...

 We just had a bit of a snow dump, so here's a picture to remind us that warmer times with flowers and butterflies will come.

 A while back, some of my old college pals invited me to join them in starting fresh in WoW classic; they'd all played a fair bit of WoW...

 It's late days, but I think I've overcome a lot of my procrastination problem.  While I haven't joined Top Left Quadrant latel...

 I'm on the edge of either overwhelmed or not.  I'm not quite sure. But I'm absolutely looking forward to the Thanksgiving break...

 As chair, much of my work feels reactive.  Sometimes that's good.  For example, when a colleague wants to apply for a grant or other op...

Delagar found this on twitter, and I lifted it. This is a hard one, isn't it?  I may have a bit of an advantage, because I knew several ...