Slow Blog Day

But maybe this is a good time to catch you up on the doings at our place...

Remember this phone? Turns out it's been sitting in a box unused for, let's say the last three years. Fortunately, I finally got around to doing something about that: sent all four (yikes!) of our old cell phones to www.collectivegood.com, where they'll donate what's reusable and recycle the rest. They even pay for the shipping!

Also sold an old iPod by using the CHS classifieds. Nice.

Where is this post going? Not sure, but I saw this on a walk the other day:

Love it.



And finally, back to home-improvement, we took advantage of the holiday weekend to finally organize our books, which we hadn't really done since we left Kansas three years ago (!). Raised some interesting questions--for example, is President Obama's memoir best placed with the biographies? Or creative non-fiction? What about his second book? And do three Gabriel García Márquez books justify a Colombian section?

We ended up with quite a range of subject areas, but it's maybe no surprise that philosophy had the most titles (somewhere around 160), followed pretty closely by American literature. So, there you have it.

Cheers, reader!

Sisters & Symposia

As you may have heard on Emily's Twitter feed, Providence Archives now has a Flickr stream going; here's one of my favorites:

Sisters prepare to leave on a begging tour in the Kootenay, British Columbia, c. 1896
Originally uploaded by Providence Archives, Seattle


This one is also popular:

Sisters depart the Nome mission, 1918
Originally uploaded by Providence Archives, Seattle

Oh, and I know I've posted this already, but just to fill things out a bit, here's my desk from the other day:

Finished a draft of a paper on Plato's Symposium, but not before I had 5 different copies (Greek, English, both) going at once...
Was a fun project, and hopefully I'll be reading it at a conference or two in the coming months. Let me know if you'd like a copy, reader.

Well, That's Just Cool

Heard about this video on Facebook and Twitter; thought you might like to see it too, reader:

Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear from Gabe Askew on Vimeo.

Burgers, Cushions, and Pads

Ever had a $15 hamburger? We hadn't either, so we went up to Lunchbox Laboratory recently.

Lots of burger, tasty bun, toppings galore (the bacon on mine was almost as thick as the burger, for better or worse; definitely liked the jalapeño mayo, though); and fun sides like sweet potato fries with bacon salt, or tater tots with, well, just about any flavor you could imagine (rosemary? yes) combined with salt.

Worth $15? Well, I don't know, but we had a nice time. Here's Roman & his burger with what I believe is a blue cheese:


In domestic news (?), we replaced our couch cushions with something a bit brighter:

Hope you like them, reader!

And speaking of cushioning, Emily got some pads and wrist-guards so that she can roller skate with confidence on the, um, basketball courts of our neighborhood:

Okay, I guess the basketball court was just a practice thing, but isn't it a super cute look?


Bonus material:
Not sure if you saw it in the Twitter feed, but my review of a new book on Plato is live over on the Bryn Mawr site:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-08-32.html.

And I bought a hat:


Well, cheers, reader. Here's to a great week!