Back from much needed sabbatical. It’s been raining here all day. I think better on rainy days. I think my meaningful-conversation-average (MCA) is significantly higher barometrically-elevated days. Okay. When I was in Canada I started reading a book by Ayn Rand called “Atlas Shrugged”. For those of you who haven’t heard of Ayn Rand, I [...]

Well, it’s adios until the 19th. Mackinac Island, here we come. Diamond Lake? Yes please. I can almost smell the blueberry muffins. Some goals: beat everyone in grand yahtzee and scrabble. Read Atlas Shrugged. Shoot a fish with a BB gun. Take some good pictures. Bathe in a lake. Hold my breath in the outhouse. [...]

Well, it’s Monday again. Back to work. This weekend we went up to my uncle Sam’s Wisconsin lake house. Little tubing, lot of eating. It was nice to be with my family before everybody gets into the craziness of a new schoolyear. I love that I’m not going back to school. This Sunday another of [...]