Events

This morning I finally opened up the pre-reading packets for Term 5, and discovered that going to Boston on August 21st may have been the better choice academically. Final exams are due August 30th, not September 6th as I'd originally thought, so taking 36 hours out of the weekend of August 28th would have been colossally stupid. The flipside of that, however, is I actually get a long weekend for Labor Day. So it works out.

Via Beth Filar Williams, a new documentary on the environmental damage caused by single-use bottles of water—30m of them per day: "We want to drink the purest water we can. So why would you put that water into a substance that has the potential to leak chemicals into the water?" It's worth a look. Watch the trailer.

The Vice President on BP:

Three things encourage me to resume the 30-Park Geas this season. First, I haven't seen a baseball game in almost a year; second, three weeks from now I'll be done with all the CCMBA travel; and third, American Airlines is running a triple-miles promotion this summer from Chicago to New York and Boston. So: my options are Boston on August 21st or New York on August 28th. Boston would cost $40 more for the airfare; New York would cost about that much more for a hotel room. (And no, I wouldn't stay in...

Started AA4241 ORD-RDU; finished on the Tallinn ferry to Helsinki

Yesterday was Parker's 4th birthday, but being in a different city I couldn't immediately get a photo of him. Fortunately we have the Intertubes, and Diane was able to provide one:

Today is Parker's: it's his 4th birthday. Happy birthday puppy!

After a Strategy exam, Finance exam, Strategy team paper, project estimate for work, and...well, that's really all I did the last four days, come to think of it...I'm more or less back. Herewith a quorum of things I noticed but didn't have time to note: The Washington Post reported yesterday that MC 900 Ft. Jesus—sorry, I meant an actual 30 m statue of Jesus—got struck by lightning Monday night and burned to the ground. Signpost to Armageddon? Probably not, but it has an element of Apocalyptic whimsy to...

Bought 2008

Tomorrow morning's sunrise is the earliest of the year in Chicago. This bit of useless information was brought to you by the letter Q and the number 5.