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IU / photo / television / Tuesday — Comments Off on Tonight we were live, on tape, from the new studio
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Oct 16

Tonight we were live, on tape, from the new studio

A long day in the office today and in the studio tonight, but here’s the view over our building and into the eastern sky:

I’m standing on the top floor of a parking deck there. My walk is exactly one block, and that’s not so bad.

This evening I gave office keys to the leadership team of the campus television station. It is an average-sized office, but they are big keys:

They would have been excited about that, but many of them got to go into the new studio for the first time tonight:

In the back of the control I offered the old Dana Carvey as John McLaughlin quote: Show show show here we go.

Going to be a great year.

cycling / Monday / photo — Comments Off on A short ride to start the week
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Oct 16

A short ride to start the week

Back to it this morning after a weekend spent traveling all over creation. The wedding we attended was fun and fine. Seeing dear friends after a too-long absence was even better. And now, it is back to work and the routine. We rode our bicycles into the office this morning. Part of our new routine:

The house is less than five miles from campus and the improvement over my previous commute was in the forefront of my mind with each pedal stroke.

This evening, playing with the kitteh:

She probably wonders why we will show her the countertop, but take great pains to try to keep her from walking on it.

friends / photo / weekend — Comments Off on On our return trip, an all-too-brief stop
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Oct 16

On our return trip, an all-too-brief stop

On our way back to Bloomington we had the chance to stop and have lunch with our friends Justin and RaDonna and Atticus. Justin and I worked together for about two years in Birmingham. Now he’s at the big G in Nashville and we’re at the ol’ IU in Bloomington and who would have seen this coming in 2004?

That is what we didn’t talk about. We did discuss work, and the state of things, and how awesome Atticus is, and when they’re all coming to see us and how the length of the drive was seriously curtailing our ability to visit for longer and various big ideas we all have.

You say this a lot, but they are just some of the sweetest people, and it takes no time at all for JT and Rad to be your friends. Then it just feels like you’ve known them forever, and when you do have the chance to reunite, it seems like you never left. You need more friends like that in life, because there would never be enough of that sort.

adventures / football / photo / video / weekend — Comments Off on He watched football … in church (there was praying)
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Oct 16

He watched football … in church (there was praying)

We are here:

It is a chapel on a small college campus in north Georgia. Also, a football game was celebrated on the front lawn, just after the bride and groom drove away. Before that, however:

Some 10,000 people have seen that on Twitter and it got picked up by a couple of those re-write sites. Every once in a while you get one that really takes off …

Anyway, he was watching the Georgia – Tennessee game. The hail mary one way, hail mary the other way game. He was quite pleased with the outcome.

(Edit: The guy in the picture saw it. Hah! Thankfully he has a good sense of humor about it.)

After that, the reception was lovely:

The groom was one of The Yankee’s former students, and we saw some other former students and friends there as well. A fine time, as they say, was had by all.

Friday / memories / photo / Pie Day / site — Comments Off on On the road
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Sep 16

On the road

Saw this flier today. Well sure, I thought to myself:

I must say this: there are no lame cat fliers full of typos all over the bulletin boards here. That, in its own way, is just another small relief.

We are traveling this weekend, to Georgia. For a wedding. A wedding in the Deep South in the fall on a Saturday. Georgia and Tennessee are playing in a rivalry game. I don’t care about either team, of course, but given the locale of the wedding, it might come up among the many lovely guests.

Here’s my rule: If you think enough of me to invite me to your wedding, and it is on a fall Saturday, I will attend if I can. No football game would get in the way of that. I will also make fun of you about it throughout your wedded bliss.

So that’s what we’ll be doing tomorrow, which meant traveling today. Which meant the road, which meant dinner on the road which meant, in Nashville, Tennessee:

And today is Friday which means Friday is Pie Day:

Interesting tidbit, meanwhile, about Bloomington: You can’t get pie anywhere.

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