Computers and Meetings and Novels Oh My!
Interesting day today. Since the Hobbit’s facial accident yesterday pushed me so far off my schedule, I was up until 2 in the morning grading and … Oh. Okay. Let me backtrack.
New Computer Coming
We’ve been wanting to get a new desktop for quite some time, as our ol’ Dell has been increasingly slowing down and showing its 8-year age. Add in our new love of the digital homelife — photos, music, videos, etc — and the urgency was getting high. So, on Sunday …
I Voted
It took me 2.5 hours to do it, but I fought through the stiff headwind of long lines and ill-organized election volunteers (God bless ’em) and made my digital mark. I voted. I hope you vote, too, no matter the inconvenience. Nothing is more essential than voting to the continued …
Beware the Barbarian at Halloween
By request, here’s a shot from one of The Citadel photographers of the Halloween festivities at Fourth Battalion here on campus. It’s a little known fact, proved here, that knights actually wear Reeboks (and hold their mommies’ hands). Isn’t he precious? And the Hobbit, too, right? I’m thinking that this …
Counting to Twelve Sesame Street Style
The Hobbit is learning to count — he’s solid up to five, pretty good up to ten — and going through the numbers with him this morning brought to my mind a wonderful memory from my youth: the counting to twelve pinball animation from Sesame Street. Well, God bless America: …