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Jan. 27th, 2020 09:48 amLast night, largely through serendipity, I had dinner with somebody I went to high school with and hadn't seen in 25 years. He was in Worcester for a wedding on Saturday and was looking for something to do last night before driving back to Pittsburgh today. So I took him out for Korean food, since he hadn't ever had that (or miso soup either, apparently) and expanded his horizons just a bit. Bibimbap isn't that scary as long as you don't burn yourself on the bowl.
The weather yesterday drove me outdoors despite not having anything in particular in mind, and that's how I found out that the Starbucks in Washington Square closed two weeks ago and the Cafe Nero is a mob scene. And confirmed that the hardware store is closed on Sundays (I was trying to get zip ties off the list, because they've been on it since August). When I got home I was looking out the living room window and noticed a new hole in Mario's roof, and presently a squirrel ambled along the gutter and went into the hole. At which point I emailed K upstairs to tell K next door to tell Mario to get the roof fixed. Apparently the wildlife guy is coming today, but I suspect that's going to be more of an "evict the squirrel if possible, set trap if not, and put hardware cloth over the hole" process than a "fix the roof" process. But it's not my roof (thank goodness) so I don't have to worry much about it.
So far the email I sent to the third year class about externship letters seems to be working quite well. And fewer of them seem to want to be oral surgeons, so I might get to February 1 without writing 40 letters.
I had a moment of "what the hell" and bought the extended editions of Peter Jackson's Hobbit movies. So far the extended edition of the first movie is an improvement on the theatrical version (or whatever butchered version of the theatrical version shows up on cable). I had absolutely no idea how long the extended editions would be, because I've only ever seen the cable TV versions with a million ads in them. Now I have to decide which three movies I want to get rid of, because I've expanded beyond my DVD shelving and I promised myself I wouldn't. I know I have movies I haven't watched in years.
I think I lost some weight in Bonaire, because my pants fit better. Now I have to figure out how to keep that up without going diving every day. (I'd rather go diving every day, if I could do it in Bonaire.)
The weather yesterday drove me outdoors despite not having anything in particular in mind, and that's how I found out that the Starbucks in Washington Square closed two weeks ago and the Cafe Nero is a mob scene. And confirmed that the hardware store is closed on Sundays (I was trying to get zip ties off the list, because they've been on it since August). When I got home I was looking out the living room window and noticed a new hole in Mario's roof, and presently a squirrel ambled along the gutter and went into the hole. At which point I emailed K upstairs to tell K next door to tell Mario to get the roof fixed. Apparently the wildlife guy is coming today, but I suspect that's going to be more of an "evict the squirrel if possible, set trap if not, and put hardware cloth over the hole" process than a "fix the roof" process. But it's not my roof (thank goodness) so I don't have to worry much about it.
So far the email I sent to the third year class about externship letters seems to be working quite well. And fewer of them seem to want to be oral surgeons, so I might get to February 1 without writing 40 letters.
I had a moment of "what the hell" and bought the extended editions of Peter Jackson's Hobbit movies. So far the extended edition of the first movie is an improvement on the theatrical version (or whatever butchered version of the theatrical version shows up on cable). I had absolutely no idea how long the extended editions would be, because I've only ever seen the cable TV versions with a million ads in them. Now I have to decide which three movies I want to get rid of, because I've expanded beyond my DVD shelving and I promised myself I wouldn't. I know I have movies I haven't watched in years.
I think I lost some weight in Bonaire, because my pants fit better. Now I have to figure out how to keep that up without going diving every day. (I'd rather go diving every day, if I could do it in Bonaire.)
