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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Breakdowns
A major project at work is falling apart. One small, but absolutely critical, piece cannot be made to work. I was fighting this all afternoon, fiddling with computer configurations and exchanging e-mails and phone calls with co-workers. The project is already running late. If it gets postponed again one or both of my October weekends with
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will be in jeopardy.
In the middle of this comes an e-mail informing me of a new family problem, asking me to make some inquiries. After doing so and communicating the results (interleaving all of this personal business with my work crisis) I learn this will cost us over $800.
And J has found another way to mismanage his affairs. It is particularly Irritating because it is a new manifestation of something we thought we had beaten.
Why care about minority languages?
See Monastic Musings, which references Enduring Voices: Documenting the Planet’s Endangered Languages.
Irish Class–Monday Night. September 17, 2007
Irish Class, September 17, 2007
Notes from Nick’s class, Sept. 17, 2007
Email: nick@gaelminn.org
Emphasis on conversation
We will keep track of common English phrases that we use during our everyday conversation and work on the Irish equivalents, e.g.
- I need to ____
- I have to ____
- I want to ____
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Minnesota’s Latest Tourist Attraction
Politicians, Baptists, and Episcopalians
I found this note at GetReligion:
“The Associated Press is making news over presidential candidate John McCain’s statement this past weekend that he is in fact a Baptist despite comments he has made in the past that he is an Episcopalian. The news hook that the AP doesn’t come right out and tell you, other than in the dateline, is that McCain made these comments while he was in South Carolina which happens to have a lot of Baptist voters.”
Considering the demographic that McCain has been pandering to lately, he would certainly want to avoid any association with the Episcopal Church.
The Age of Miracles is not over!
…. My son James got up for school this morning entirely on his own.
The weekend
Update on the Travelers, and those left behind
mia_mcdavid and her mother are in the northern Chicago suburbs, staying with a family friend. They fly to Dublin tonight.
I got J up and off to school yesterday and today, without too much whining on his part.
Last night I started a sewing project for my colgaffneyis kit. I had been procrastinating about it for months. Not a big job, but the fitting is fussy.
We might have visitors this weekend. Some old (30+ years) friends were talking about stopping by on their way between South Dakota and Michigan. That was a couple weeks ago, before I went to Colorado, and they have not called back, unless they talked to Mia while I was away. So there may be a van with Michigan plates sitting in my driveway tonight.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 