June 14, 2007: My Childhood Musical Tastes

Dominica and I spent the evening cleaning last night. I think that we made some good progress. It was a short night. I lost about an hour dealing with the OfficeMax mess and had to run some errands out of the building which cost another hour. Our nights are very short as it is so …

June 13, 2007: An Authority on Transport Futures?

I got home last night and our new corner desk from OfficeMax still has not arrived. The one to three days of shipping has now turned into a week and two days and nothing so I called OfficeMax to find out what was going on. They had no idea and said that the warehouse would …

1180 Raymond’s Fire Drills Continue Despite “Being Over”

Just two weeks after making the big announcement that the incessant fire drills plagueing 1180 Raymond Blvd., Newark, NJ would cease since “construction was over” we have received a notice that the fire drills will begin again on Monday, June 18th.  Apparently either the construction was not completed and the whole “end of the fire …

June 12, 2007: Culottes not Koolats

I have been informed by Danielle that the correct spelling is neither koolats or coolats (which are the sensible spellings) but, in fact, culottes. The real issue is not that the spelling doesn’t make any sense but that we, as Americans, pronounce the word as if it was an English word when it is actually …