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01/28/26
The problem with snow days is you always want more of them. You basically get a taste of retirement and then get slapped back to reality. It was nice while it lasted though. Today: The shuttle lot was …
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The winter snow event turned out to be less than they were predicting right before it started, but it’s still enough to quiet the city for a few days. Today: Organizing, cleaning, and the various …
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The winds made the bus feel like a ship at sea this morning. We’ve got cold and snow warnings everywhere, just need to get home before anything else hits. Today: Vermont’s general stores Taming the …
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We’re promised a snow-whatever-fun-term-you-want-to-use this weekend which is liable to disrupt a state that simply does not have to capacity to respond to winter weather. Today: Grading and small …
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I’m five pages away from finally finishing The Blood in Winter and I left it sitting on the table at home, so it’ll have to wait until this evening to be done. Today: First in-class writing day of the …
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It’s the end of the day and I’ve only just now gotten to this. I need to set up the Obsidian system I have on the laptop on the mac mini so I can easily do this at 9AM when I’m at the office desk. …
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The cat demanded his treats this morning sounding like a beached whale and decided to not stop until he was acknowledged. So no sleeping in on the long weekend. Today: The annual day off where people …
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Today: McKinsey wants to hire you, but only if you train the AI that will replace you Status: I’ve started to remember to regularly take Flonase before bed and it really does help reduce the morning …
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Slow start, largely brought on by the renewed annoyance that there’s simply too much out there to read and process. Status: Grading syllabus quizzes and trying to clean out reading materials …
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The lingering cold kicked any ideas of productivity yesterday, but did manage to organize some basic things and read about the worst season in TV history Today: Lincoln dies and we talk about …
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