Tag: general news
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you know healthcare is bad when…
You can’t get your healthcare provider to talk to itself. Some background to explain. Upon moving to Florida, I took a job at the University of Tampa with Ryan, where I had good health insurance. A large chunk of that insurance was covered by the University and we didn’t really worry about the insurance that…
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the ticket of false hope 🙁
In case you missed it, President Obama came to my university, University of Tampa, last week. He spoke mostly about the funding for high speed rail, but then took questions from the audience. Faculty at my University were reserved a certain number of seats, we just had to ask for a ticket. I asked for…
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dishwasher woes
I noted on here that we bought a new dishwasher back in November of 2008. It’s a great dishwasher; it has a built in food grinder so you can put all sorts of stuff in there and it makes quick work of it. It worked fine for about 10 months, but about 2 months ago…
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some pics and updates
In case you missed it, I posted a few trip reports. Here are the links for those who didn’t see them: Key West Key West trip – day 1 Key West trip – day 2 Key West trip – day 3 Key West trip – day 4 Key West trip – day 5 PEACE Alternative…
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PEACE Alternative Break – days 3 and 4
The remainder of our time in Fort Lauderdale passed relatively peacefully. We worked at Horses and the Handicapped and were even treated to dinner on the third night by the former student’s parents (which gave me a chance to talk to non-students for the first time in a while; very nice!!!). I think what we…
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PEACE Alternative Break – day 2
Our second day in Southeastern Florida was mostly spent volunteering at Horses for the Handicapped. We did a variety of things while there, from painting to picking up rocks to grooming horses, but mostly we cleaned up horse feces. Horses defecate a lot. I was happy to help, but I’ll be happy if I never…
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Sad ending to 2009 🙁
We arrived home from a party at a colleague’s house Wednesday night and, even though I was tired, I was feeling good about the fact that I had almost finished my major project over the break – my pre-tenure review packet. So, I decided I’d spend an hour so playing my latest PC game –…
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Hail the Conquering Hero
It’s the weekend before Christmas and I’m trying to get all of my grading done when Debi comes into the office and tells me that the clothes dryer is no longer working. It heats up, but it doesn’t turn. I was on track to have all of my grading done so I could relax a…
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Debi’s muscles
Debi walked into the office today while I was holding Toren. She was wearing a tanktop (yea Florida weather!) and I noted that I could see her ribs. I’ve been telling her that she needs to gain weight (yep, that’s a man telling a woman she needs to gain weight). She proceeded to try to…
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England Trip – Day 1
While I wasn’t particularly excited to leave for the UK on my birthday, in a sense it was kind of a nice birthday present, so I didn’t really mind. I arrived at the airport a couple hours before my flight, checked in fine, and headed to the terminal from where my US Airways flight to…