School’s Out 2008
Not much activity on the blog lately, but now that the UCF semester is over I can at least give a status report on where we are and what’s next. I have a crazy travel schedule starting in a couple of weeks that will keep me away from home for most of the summer. The trip list at the moment is:
Ft. Lauderdale
Houston
Rome
Boulder
Washington D. C.
Montreal
Paris
London.
I won’t be in any city more than 6 days. Anne-Marie plans to accompany me on the Montreal trip which will be, I think, her first visit to Canada and my first since the 1976 Olympics.
Aylia gets home from a busy and successful semester at Occidental College tomorrow morning, and Anne-Marie is in France for her mother’s 80th birthday bash in the Pyrenees. Last week we bought a new car so that we have two for the summer while Aylia is here and commuting to whatever summer job she lands. We’ll sell Anne-Marie’s beloved beetle in the Fall in favor of the more practical four-door hatchback Nissan Versa. We had a fun visit from Brad a couple of weeks ago when he delighted us by eating his pancake with blue cheese dressing. After a year of spats I’ve finally broken up with Microsoft PowerPoint. We’ll still see each other for lectures in the Fall, but for the many talks I have to give this summer I will use Apple’s Keynote which, while strange at first, has the virtue of stability. On Guitar Hero III my career progress has slowed considerably at the “hard” level where I’m about 3/4 of the way through. Postings over at “According to Colwell”, my personal blog, have also stalled for the same reasons they have stalled here. After getting grades turned in I am now dealing with proposal and paper deadlines.