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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Scottish Ramble
Updates on Tom
From mia_mcdavid:
- Today (Feb. 15)
- The thing about beating your head against the wall… (Feb. 16)
Irish Class–Monday Night. February 11, 2008
Irish Class. February 11, 2008
Irish Class, February 11, 2008
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The first exercise was about asking each other various questions
Communicating with a recording
Preoccupied
Thomas, our younger son, has been hospitalized. Mia has been writing about this:
- Worried about Tom (Feb. 11).
- Tom update (Feb. 13).
- Today with Tom (Feb. 13).
Also, my mother is in the hospital. Her hip popped out on Sunday. That was quickly fixed, but she was kept in the hospital because of congestive heart failure. It sounded like another episode of the trouble that caused me to make an emergency trip to see her back in September. I called her at the hospital. The reality is not quite so alarming: The congestive heart failure is the same issue as last year. At age 82 it doesn’t really go away. She was actually in good spirits, in a hospital room with a great view of the Rockies.
On a totally different front, I have to work on Sunday, thereby missing the second day of colgaffneyis at the St. Paul Scottish Ramble. I have two big system implementation projects to complete. These are the sort of thing that can only be done outside of business hours, and require extensive coordination with my co-workers. So scheduling is always hard, and compromises have to be made.
Current Minnesota weather
From our host in Albert Lea this past weekend:
It’s winter in Minnesota
And the gentle breezes blow
Seventy miles an hour
At twenty-five below.Oh, how I love Minnesota
When the snow’s up to your butt
You take a breath of winter
And your nose gets frozen shut.Yes, the weather here is wonderful
So I guess I’ll hang around
I could never leave Minnesota
‘Cause I’m frozen to the ground!!
Big Island Historical Faire
In Albert Lea
mia_mcdavid and I are in Albert Lea (southern Minnesota, near the Iowa border) with colgaffneyis for the Big Island History Faire, an off-season event to promote the October Rendezvous. No camping this time–we are all “Ramada Rangers” (actually at at Holiday Inn in our case).
The drive down was OK. We had dinner and are settled in for the night. The actual event starts at 9 AM tomorrow.
Even here, in very outstate Minnesota, this Holiday Inn has wi-fi, and it is free.
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