Happy Birthday Mr President

Oy vey!

You've probably seen it already, but I can't ignore it.

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President Obama was born 48 years ago today (in Hawai'i).

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Why I Was Late to Dinner

Well, I tutored algebra this afternoon at FLC which made me feel very good about myself and others. (My math skills did not fall apart until I hit geometry).

Then I walked down to the train station and all h*** broke loose. No train*.

So I went downtown Minneapolis, caught an express down University Ave, got off at Snelling and who should walk around the corner?

Boy-child.

What a pleasant surprise. I got to visit with him all the way into Highland. And then I was fed at the Highland Grill, which is always scrumptious.

And now I'm home. I guess it wasn't so bad that it took over an hour to get back to the 'hood.

*Just for the record, who in their right mind goes around the crossing arm? C'mon!

Happy Monday

It's rained a couple of times in the past few days - I swear you can hear the flowers sighing with relief.

The Beauty of Facebook

Thanks to Anna Geirsdóttir for posting a photo of the Choir of the University of Salamanca circa 1978:

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Boy-child and I watched some of the classic Dracula movie with Béla Lugosi last night. What a kick.

I guess we've been a a roll, what with the Nosferatu that I saw with Girl-child recently and then a couple of Ed Wood's movies to prepare for watching the movie about Ed Wood made by Tim Burton.

We really, really like movies at our house. And who doesn't like a good story?

Speaking of good stories, I've started reading Michael Chabon's Yiddish Policemen's Union recently. Did I say it was a good story? It's kind of weird. I bought it for Boy-child ages ago when he was in to alternate history but he never read it. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay was good, but vastly different from this one. (Wow, I just discovered that it's being made into a movie - Kavalier and Clay will make a good movie). At any rate, the jury is still out on the Policemen.

The other good story I've been venturing in and out of is the Doris Kearns Goodwin Team of Rivals book. It's a bit dense, but good, so I read about 100 pages and then take a break with something like Chabon, or Junot Diaz.

I find that summer is not such a good knitting time - not much to report in that department.

Happy Saturday.