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I wonder if I’m having a mid-life crisis.
I’m 41 years old.  I took my first job out of college and stayed in it 14 years, until the present day.  I’ve lived a short walk from my classroom for 13 of these years.  A couple of my subjects I’ve taught virtually every single year of the [...]

New Year’s Day. All we did today was schlep around the apartment, eat, read, nap, play games. The most organized thing we did was watch the movie Waiting for Guffman.
Tomorrow, we pack, eat, take a car to La Guardia, and spend the day flying to Fresno and driving home to our beds. [...]

New Year’s Eve. Again, mostly a day for resting. We breakfasted at the Metro Diner. Most of us took a little walk down to Riverside Park, past the former residences of Duke Ellington and George Gershwin. Saw Jersey across the Hudson. The problem for me was being under the influence [...]

Today we went to the matinee showing of the Phantom of the Opera at Broadway’s Majestic Theater. Norman, who usually does the famous organ and other keyboard and piano parts, today was filling in for the conductor. Although this was an amazing day because of the show, we did very little besides go [...]

This day began early for me. Norman and I took the train down to the Columbia University neighborhood where he paid for his car to be safely garaged for another 3 months. The University was fairly emptied out by the holidays, but was still impressive to look at from outside. The original [...]

Last night Kim and I, our two daughters, and Laura and Uncle Norman, ate an early dinner at an authentic Greek restaurant, the Symposium (alternative link). Our waiter must have been the owner, and he was attentive, interested in knowing us, and ready to celebrate Greek culture and food with us. The flaming [...]

Flying into La Guardia last night was a spectacle - all those lights, and there, the statue of liberty so tiny. Bridges decked with lights. Even from the airplane, you could tell the city was a living organism.
Uncle Norman is the perfect gentleman, and a true New Yorker - keyboardist for the last [...]

An avid computer gamer from wayyy back, I am now quite hard to please. But this one pleased me so well, I had to put it here on my blog. Click the link, and enjoy!
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Too bad there was no microphone on the camera, but the video came out looking sorta cool.
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I’ve been having a hard time knowing what to write about lately. I’m reading several political and news blogs a day, including dailykos.com, thinkprogress.org, huffingtonpost.com. I regularly read religion-oriented material, including heavenlysanctuary.com, the adventist forums on myspace, and a new one called faithinpubliclife.org. I have set up other blogs in order to [...]