Monthly Archives: January 2013

One of the events that I had been very pleased to observe last year was the granting of travel privileges to Mr. Chen Guangcheng.  I had written a letter on his behalf, and yesterday, I had the privilege of seeing … Continue reading →

The grammar bench. You worked  23 minutes for an average of:  0.230000 minutes per question, and a sum of  100 questions with   mistakes and  dictation faults. The correct nouns ( 89 ): , Vosotras hablaréis, Yo hablé, Vosotros hablaréis, Ella … Continue reading →

I processed the deer, and it was, indeed, an all day job – well over 8 hours, including boiling the bones.   On top of everything else, because the ice had just melted, the ground was steeped in mud – no … Continue reading →

Skiing is supposed to be like riding a bike – once you learn how to do it (and it can be a pretty painful process for an adult), you never forget.  It’s been years since I’ve skied, but I wanted … Continue reading →

I’m working on trying to get the animal grant review set up.  Generally, abstracts of NIH taxpayer-funded research information are publicly available at this site. There are several good candidates for review if one simply types in “animal model” in … Continue reading →

I used the really rough day yesterday, to stay inside and work on setting up the Spanish news program – doing the first translation of an article from the Washington Hispanic.  These are the files.  You need 2 spaces after … Continue reading →

Frigid weather, but I managed to get the bike repaired (the derailer cable broke on the Indian Head bike trip), and took the pups out for a couple of hours for a 2 mile ride at Black Hill regional park.  … Continue reading →

A trip down to St. Mary’s, the place where the first colony was established in Maryland.  I took the pups out for a bit in St. Mary’s Wilderness, but it was a hunting day, there was no trail map, and … Continue reading →

This was an absolutely gorgeous very flat ride.  I did 11 miles with the pups.  The whole trail is 26 miles round trip through very diverse stream habitat.  It’s an old rail trail, and a relatively new bike path (about … Continue reading →

I went to a local talk by a recently graduated Ph.D. student in archeology on Indian pipes.  The talk was entitled: Native American Tobacco Pipe Types of the Mid-Atlantic by Elizabeth Bollwerk, Ph.D. She circulated some of the artifacts that … Continue reading →