Hellos to the people I know,<\/p>\n
Apartment is rented and the hole is filled. Actually, I said that in
reverse order. As soon as the ground thawed, my shovel pushed the dirt
hill back into the hole. Turns out some of the dirt evaporated somehow,
so we now have about a 6 inch by 20 foot dent in the yard. This is
where I will claim a meteor hit.<\/p>\n
That 2nd photo is from a driveway cookout. The blue cars in the
background are undergoing the equivalent of a heart\/lung transplant.
The party eventually died out, but Zach continued working by flashlight
till midnight, and the refurbished car was happily rolling the streets
the next day.<\/p>\n
Helen and I got back from our 2 week trip to NY, NH, and Boston last
night. Missions accomplished, but finding an apartment was harder than
we expected. Apartments withing biking\/walking distance of a large
university is tricky, apparently typically done a year in advance. I
had lots of leads from the internets, but most of them fell through (web
pictures somehow always look better than in real life). So by day 3, we
resorted to randomly driving streets and dialing any phone numbers we
could find. Which lead us to the top floor of the 3rd pictures. Helen
walked up to it and said 'This smells right'. I didn't think that was a
good sign, but then a multi-colored cat walked up and said hi. Russians
view this as a good sign. They landlord had a stack of applicants for
this newly available apartment, but liked us best, so we sealed the deal.<\/p>\n
After Syracuse, we visited Aya at here school in (RISDI) in Road Island.
The photo shows her explaining how the 16 mm film machine she uses
in her animation major works.<\/p>\n
Then we went to Helen's house on 'the lake' where she finally had a
chance to prepare her presentation at the big annual Neurology meeting
in Boston. Whilst at the lake, we reveled in the last quickly melting
snowbank (5th photo).<\/p>\n
The last 3 photos are from Boston. While Helen gave her talk to a big
crowd, I touristed the streets, only getting lost a few times.<\/p>\n
2 urls to share. A few weeks ago I did a Internet radio\/podcast The other is Laurie's blog, which she started about a month ago.
interview on MisterHouse. About 20 minutes, really of interest only to
home automation types. podcast link here: http:\/\/sitescollide.com<\/a><\/p>\n
Creative, inspiring, and fun words found here:<\/p>\n