Massachusetts has an initiative question in next Tuesday’s election that would let supermarkets sell wine. I’m against it. Now, it’s true that we’re way behind the times on this issue. The current situation is that any one person can only hold two liquor licenses. A whole supermarket chain counts as one person, so only two …
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Thursday
Pretty lame title. I’ve been using one of those new mouthpieces when I practice trumpet the last few days, to get used to it before I take it up to Maine. I haven’t hit the D# with it yet, but I was nice and solid on the D. That’s plenty OK. I’m well on my …
And what’s this blog called, anyway?
I hadn’t been on my unicycle once this whole year. There’s not a lot of empty parking lot where I work these days, and it’s really a more corporate environment in general than the last few places. I wouldn’t be comfortable riding around in the center of the campus, and there’s too much traffic there …
NaBloPoMo
I’m not going to try to write a novel, but maybe I can do a post every day for the month of November. That would be National Blog Posting Month, I suppose. It’s too late to wish “Happy Halloween”, but if you’re like us you have leftover candy that there weren’t kids to take. We …
Sash Cord Repair
It was really a pretty busy Saturday. And by the way, there are lots of pictures, but no pretty pictures, in this post. Unless you’re interested in sash cords, it may not be worth waiting for. More or less first (but after making french toast for breakfast) I went to the post office and bank. …
Even more ancient history – JoJos
Not Trader Joe’s Joe-Joe cookies, nor former Celtics player JoJo White. This is really a propos of nothing, except for looking at my high school yearbook. When my sisters went to 4-H camp back in the late ’50s their favorite counselor was a girl from Fitchburg named Joanne Johanneson, aka JoJo. I met JoJo when …
Some ancient history
Toby had worked as a dental hygienist when they lived in Israel. In my second year of graduate school I used to go out with a girl who was studying that at Forsyth in Boston — it’s either part of Northeastern University or next door to it. Jane had an apartment off Beacon Street in …
Small klez meeting
Only Barry (leader & accordion), Sarah (violin), Jeffery (flute), Toby (piano) and I were at klezmer class last night. After playing our standard opening warm-up medley, we listened to a CD of four tunes which we started playing this session. They’re from a book/CD set Fleytmuzik that Toby got at klezcamp. After we picked out …
Release Printing
Late last winter or early in the spring we bought a bunch of plain black T-shirts on sale at a place in Bridgton. The intention was to try something people were doing at the Nature Printing Society meeting last summer, dye release printing fish with soft scrub. The idea is to use the soft scrub …
Poland Spring hike
Arlene wanted to do some walking. I didn’t want to just walk around our loop, so I suggested going over to Poland and looking for ducks at Range Pond State Park. We first stopped at the little park in Webb’s Mills, where Matt and I had seen some ducks in the spring when we went …