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About gmcdavid

Retired IT professional with a wide range of interests. Married. Three sons, two with autistic-spectrum disorders and the third being transgender with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. From Chicago but now living in the Twin Cities metro, Minnesota. Episcopalian. Carleton College (BA 1972, physics) and Stanford University (MS 1974, Applied Physics; MS 1976 Statistics).

Bumper Sticker

A few weeks ago I was driving westward along Marshall Ave. in St. Paul, just east of the Mississippi (west of which it becomes Lake St. in Minneapolis) when a bumper sticker caught my eye. In large print there was just one word, which I am familiar with in historical reading (e.g. for colgaffneyis), but rarely see in modern contexts. I saw it again tonight, and was able to park and get a picture:

The small print is the URL of the Ratzinger Fan Club.

Weekend woodwork

Yesterday I finished the spoon that I started at colgaffneyis event in Perham:

It is ready to use and packed for our next event with colgaffneyis.

Today I had that most mundane of a homeowner’s tasks: Replacing board on the front walkway:

It still called for measuring, sawing (done with a hand saw), drilling (with an eggbeater drill), driving screws (with a bit brace), and hammering nails. Doing this also showed that my knees were recovering from yesterday’s bike ride.