Monthly Archives: March 2005

O Rare

I went on the first bike ride of the season today. It may be the only time I’ve ridden past piles of snow and ice in the countryside. The sun finally came out later in the afternoon and exposed the lanky shadows of the group road ride.…

O ye frost and cold, o ye ice and snow

I have returned to the land of the lake effect. The area received a ton of snow overnight and most of it had melted by mid-afternoon. The white northeast has my bones … again.…

Ou est un restaurant Vietnamien?

While in Paris, I was able to find a pho restaurant and all it took was an Iridium satellite to track it down.

On the road

Am currently in London and heading to Paris tomorrow.

Direction

“I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.” —Anna Louise Strong…

Ship of memory

I dreamt of piles of worthless money.…

Longing

“Were there then no longing in time, there would be no peace in eternity.” —Josiah Royce…

What I was working on

About this time last year, I was carefully whittling down my projects and to-do list as I prepared for separation from the job. In the process of deleting old files, I came across my final three items:

What the managing editor is working on
Renewal card – 9.25” x 4”

Murry’s – Michael Byers April

Beautiful nor’easter of my server

So my ISP’s server crashed hard and they had to restore from backups that are a week old. I was missing my entry about the nor’easter that’s been dumping snow on us for the last four days but no big loss as I just paraphrased it.…