Bardiac

 Bev of Excelsior has a post recently on trivial knowledge.  What's the most trivial thing you know ? Here's mine:  in black letter...

In Life, the Universe, and Everything , Douglas Adams writes There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in l...

I'm getting ready to head north to International Falls tomorrow.  So I should be packed.  I'm not.  Most of my camping stuff is on t...

I don't camp nearly often enough.  Or something. When I talked to the guide about camping at Voyageurs , I asked about temperatures, and...

 For a few years now, I've been looking at Voyageurs National Park and thinking I'd like to visit.  But Voyageurs is sort of unique...

 Last night, I had my third academic anxiety dream in recent weeks.  They've all been basically the same: I'm trying to figure out m...

 Last weekend, I went to a state conservation education program on Monarch butterflies.  We learned about butterfly biology and migration, a...

 I finished painting the bench (see this one and also this other one for previous bench adventures), and with help from a visiting grad sc...

I'm late to the game, of course, but when I subscribed to the streaming service to watch the Tour de France, I also gained access to Yel...

 In 2018, I did this project to make my wood bench look better.  I started with this: I sanded and primed and painted and got this: It look...

In April or so, a friend of mine told me about an acquaintance who's going through a painful divorce and was looking for a place to stay...

Today I went to the Great River Shakespeare Festival production of The Winter's Tale , and it was stellar.  I so enjoyed it!  Paulina w...

Yesterday, I went to the brand new Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival 's production of As You Like It , in Eau Claire, at the newish Pablo C...

Ahhh, retirement!  I went to As You Like It at the Great River Shakespeare Festiva l in Winona, MN.  I haven't been to the GRSF for a l...

 When I was in CA recently, I visited one of my favorite places, Big Basin State Park .  I haven't been there since some cousins and I w...

 I was in the SF Bay Area last week, and saw this:     Several friends quickly identified it as a new Tesla truck .  And one of my cousins s...

 It's been a while.  Let's just say that there's so much unbloggable stuff for a chair, and anything that's bloggable is bor...

 Or lack thereof? I'm usually moderately excited to be teaching new courses every fall, to be seeing students, and so on.  Planning my c...

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...