We just got back from a very pleasant walk around the neighborhood. The apartment is about 150 yards from the Seine, and there is a pedestrian walkway right at the end of our street that takes you over to an island in the Seine that has a park and a museum on it and, in the area we were, no cars. Lots of people and dogs and kids enjoying a […]
I had heard, but forgotten, that keyboards aren’t universal. The one I’m using now is not a standard “querty” keyboard. The A is where the Q should be, the Q is where the A should be, the comma is where the M should be, and most weirdly, the period is where the comma should be, but you have to shift to make it. I reset the computer settings to make […]
We had a completely uneventful trip (plane on time, no hassles) except for a couple of things. First, my mom, with the bionic knee, set off the alarms at security and so had to undergo a complete personalized screening. When we arrived in Paris, the French family staying in our house had arranged for a shuttle to meet us at the airport. It was about 30 minutes late, and when […]
To post comments, you can either click on the post heading (here “How to Post Comments”) or (although this is counterintuitive) you can also click on the link that says “no comment” (or “1 comment” if one comment has been posted). Doing either will take you to a page where you can post a comment. The envelope icon doesn’t have anything to do with posting comments. [Updated 3/07 — This […]
Suzie and I are following the “Jet Lag Diet” supposedly developed by the Argonne National Laboratory to ameliorate the effects of jet lag. It involves a day of “feasting” (high protein breakfast and lunch, high carbo dinner) followed by a day of fasting (no more than 400-700 calories a day), then feasting, then fasting on the travel day, and beginning a “feast” day at the time it’s breakfast time at […]
We leave next Saturday for three weeks in Paris. I hope to use this blog to share some news and pictures while we are gone. Watch this space for more….and feel free to pose comments if you like. I’ll also try to upload photos to my Yahoo photo site, http://photos.yahoo.com/ssshupe.
For years the parcel behind our house has been vacant. We came to think of it as ours, even though we knew it wasn’t, and knew that someday it would get built on. That’s now happened. Although mostly I think that people should be able to do whatever they want to do with their property, and although I don’t begrudge the new owner the right to build on a parcel […]
As a REM fan/fanatic since 1982, the last few offerings since the departure of drummer Bill Berry have been disappointing. Up seemed like an odd experiment that went sideways (too much techo-instrumentation and overly restrained Stipe vocals). Reveal was better, with stronger songwriting and a more let-it-rip feel. I was wondering where the band would go with its latest CD, Around the Sun. For the first few listens, I confess […]