65/365 Sunday, 03/06/2011

This was taken what now (on Friday 03/11/0 seems like a VERY long time ago. In the past 5 days I have traveled on 6 different planes and one airport shuttle-van to three different destinations. I'm very glad that part is over. It's all over except for the waiting as they say...The Charlie Sheen story seems to have waned during the past few days--not that I was paying much attention to it...but I still thought this sign for a "Charlie Sheen omelette" was quite humorous. This was in front of The Roxy Cafe in Jackson-one of our favorite breakfast joints.. They have a number of novelty items like this one on their menus--and lots of funny, cheeky paraphenalia inside. And the food is very good too!

64/365 Saturday, 03/05/2011

Not much to say - packing for a week of non-stop work-related travel to be followed by a week in Germany, not work-related. It will be an adventure!

63/365 Friday, 03/04/2011

I took this coming home from my errand. A greyish but warmer day in Albion. The snow is melting.

62/365 Thursday, 03/03/2011

I rescued this bag from Bill's messy office and went about "de-hairing" it so I could take it with me on my travels. After de-hairing it I thought I wouldn't take it and just put it down again in Bill's office. Mieze thought I must have put there for here since it's the perfect size!

61/365 Wednesday, 03/02/2011

Wednesday was a nice day- sunny, a bit chilly but not too bad. I went to Marshall and looked at the Goodwill offerings (I'm turning into a committed thrifter!) and then went out to dinner at "Applebee's" with a friend. The food was pretty good=not great but ok. The problem with Applebee's is that we once lived in a town where it was one of the few half-ways decent restaurant options which meant we ended up there a lot--we kind of got our fill (and then some) of Applebee's...This is a picture of our appetizer--the spinach and artichoke dip. It was good, but too salty. (I wonder if they make it more salty on purpose?) Spinach and artichoke are not particularly salty things on their own now are they?

60/365: Tuesday, 03/01/2011

Not much to say about this one--just a cute shot of Georgie mid-stretch in the afternoon sunlight of the kitchen. Posts might be sporadic during the next week or two--I'll take pictures every day and just upload and blog them when I can. The good thing is that they will be from all sorts of exotic locales!!! Stay tuned...

59/365 Monday, 02/28/2011

This was a complete "desperation shot"-- later and while sitting at my desk working on something. It's a bookmark with kitties that move if you turn it and they look like they're running towards you. My sister sent it to me for a birthday. It's sitting on the base of my desklamp. (Someone on flickr asked what that was).

58/365 Sunday, 02/27/2011

Yes well the repairing of the computer did not work out so well--it kept shutting down without any warning and hence was becoming rather unreliable and treacherous to work with. Since I have to prepare for job interviews I needed to a more reliable internet connection and place to keep my documents. I already picked out with Bill's help the smallest and cheapest little netbook BestBuy had to offer: this adorable little blue Toshiba, which was really quite reasonable We ventured out on Sunday, even though we thought we wouldn't have to since we tried to get everything done on Satruday. We went in and almost immediately swooped in for the purchase instead of standing around awkwardly talking to a sales rep for what seems like ages...oh how I hate that--I just want to go in and buy and be done with it. The sales people are not used to that and keep trying to find things they want to talk to you about. I'm glad we were as efficient as we were. I'm typing this blog entry on it and so far I have no complaints! And its so much more portable than my old laptop too. I think we did good!

57/365 Saturday, 02/26/2011

So now this is in the right place!

Saturday was busy--I had to get my computer repaired, and I wanted to look for clothes for two upcoming campus visits. (Did not find anything--hated all the clothes I saw at Kohl's, T.J.Maxx and Sears...which is all this little mall has-oh I guess there is a Target, maybe I should have gone there...oh well), plus food and catfood etc.. shopping...we made a pit stop at the "Alpha Koney Island" where I came upon this picture of a typical German cake. I did have to giggle a bit because  it is hardly "known as >Schwartawalder<--if you asked a German what a "Schwartawalder" is I'm sure they wouldn't have a clue...the actual name for this delicacy is: Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte which in english is known as a Black Forest cake. If you click on the pictures you can see what this cake is supposed to look like--which isn't to say the one in the picture might not be quite yummy too. The main difference is that the german cake contains "Kirschwasser" a cherry liquor, that adds a punch to the flavor. I'll try and stake a piece out while I'm in Germany!!

56/365 Friday, 02/25/2011

So I just noticed that I forgot to post this picture and instead posted Saturday's picture instead! This is the first time that has happened and it was almost March so I guess that's ok! It's probably because I am busier now getting ready for my upcoming work-related travel. A project like this becomes harder the busier one is. It turns in to just another thing on the to-do list. So far that hasn't happened this time. And I think it will be fun to share some pictures on here related to the upcoming travel--just as a way of remembering it all. Anyway this was a desperation shot. We had spent a nice evening with friends at our favorite pub (The Dark Horse in Marshall, MI) and then at their house. But I forgot to take my camera and so I was looking around my room to see what would work. I almost went with a postcard picture of Garden dwarves, but decided to go with this picture of my bobble-headed Freud. He is pretty cool-I should use him in my German class-have them describe his clothes and face. He is an object that would be in my office at the place where I teach if I had such an office. For now he is happy standing around my home office.