If that lovely couple (@BCClone and @jcyclonee) have a good idea for supper, please share. Running out of good ideas.........although I did dust off a really awesome venison recipe of my Mom's, I made it Sunday and the vixen raved about it. 
Random Thoughts XI (Eleven Pipers Piping)
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I usually trust my freinds to NOT steal my stuff. The newpaper guy and such, not so much.
I do find it a little strange when people don't limit their posts to just friends. Of course some people make everyone they meet there "friend". I don't have any total strangers as friends. Some totally strange people as freinds, yes.
If that lovely couple (@BCClone and @jcyclonee) have a good idea for supper, please share. Running out of good ideas.........although I did dust off a really awesome venison recipe of my Mom's, I made it Sunday and the vixen raved about it.
We’re having roasted chicken. Yes there will be onions and garlic in the cavities when they go in the oven. Also au gratin potatoes and steamed broccoli.
Being Facebook friends with my cousins has definitely influenced my decision on whether or not to attend the next family reunion.
I have a rule that I don't post anything on Twitter about being gone since anyone can see that. We also limit posting on Facebook about being gone but will post occasional pictures. That being said we always have someone staying at the house with the dog so it isn't really empty.
I'll admit I am kind of a FB junkie. I like seeing what friends are up to while likely boring them with all of my stuff. My cousin out west posts silly stuff that makes me laugh every morning. Got to see corgi in the snow video yesterday and another friends cute foofoo dog doing lazy snow day with owner. Another was "Hey, look at me, I am with friends in Miami and you're shoveling!" post. And when you see someone posting a lot of philosophical stuff about letting going, baby Buddha statements,trust and such you know to give them a call cause something ain't right.
I am guess something like 20-25% of my FB friends "get me". The others are likely going WTF and doing a head shake.
We are also using FB a lot for alumni stuff locally. Got about 500 members in our FB group and it's fun to share/post ISU stuff there and pictures from our outings etc. Not a bad sounding board to see if folks might be interested in some specific activity we could plan.
Yeah, that was very bad and I was a little shocked that all of that truely fake "news" got there. I immediately recognized it as total ******** but I guess a lot of people into conspiracies fed by talk radio totally bought it. At the time it made me sick that politicians would indulge in that crap. Even worse to find out later that it was mostly Russian. Sad stuff.
I have noticed things are a lot cleaner right now, at least for now. Seems my ad bloc is even able to block the side bar "suggestions". If they are to be believed the algorithms are supposed to be adjusted more to get back to seeing more of your friends stuff and less "suggested for you" ****.
/end long ramble of post violating FB rule #1, always include a picture.
We liked it. I didn't realize it was a musical until they started singing.
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Prof=Major professor=advisor. Just threw the words together that time.
The message here said that we'll put together a revision plan, if one is even needed, and then word on the graduation thing. So all could be well (should be pretty solid here), or not, or anywhere in between. It's a mystery.
I usually like musicals but hated LaLa Land so now I am on the fence.
Really want to see The Post but I am only person in America who doesn’t like Tom Hanks.
We didn't get the hype for LaLa Land either. I would say this is nothing like that.
Son has a major professor and he works in his lab. He chairs his dissertation committee. He suggested profs for the rest of the committee. When son met with them for the oral part of his candidacy exam, they asked him one question and then sat around telling tales about how freaking long it took them to complete their dissertations lol.
You have been working hard, hopefully it turns out well. Since you will be teaching, are you buying your academic garb? Husband really wants son to do that as his dad was a prof, although son probably will go into corporate world. Guessing the hood is pricey, and if husband really wants it to happen, we should buy it for him.
So the vixen and I are coming to Ames on Saturday - she used to work for the radio group there, and some of her old co-workers have put together a reunion. We are meeting at the Olde Main Brewery for dinner and cocktails, and then may go bar-hopping. (I am the DD, I also have to read Scripture at church the next morning.) Just wondering if any of you has a recommendation on the food at the Brewery - any input appreciated.
CycloneErik
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Combo is $830, I think the hood is about $230 of that or something.
I need to know if I'll have a job. I'm thinking of renting for now, recording the sizes, and ordering once I have a job, if that ever happens.
Our job market is often bleak, and this year's is the worst I've seen yet. Lots of openings for places that I can't justify going to.
i had crappy Casey’s pizza. Basketball game. Although at Mayo Clinic right now and maybe worst biscuits and gravy ever. I don’t get much choice with school stuff at least 5 days a week.If that lovely couple (@BCClone and @jcyclonee) have a good idea for supper, please share. Running out of good ideas.........although I did dust off a really awesome venison recipe of my Mom's, I made it Sunday and the vixen raved about it.
Well I have already started looking at stuff once a week or so for whenever he gets out. I will keep an eye out for history jobs. The science field has an advantage I think, as they will keep him on as a postdoc in the lab until he finds something.
That is expensive all right, I see why he doesn’t want to buy it. But teaching, I assume most places you are supposed to wear it to graduations at least.
CycloneErik
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It would be expected as the faculty rep at graduation, or for everyone if the school is small enough.
Postdocs are a definite advantage. We're not flush with those.
There seems to be some confusion in our field about dissertations right now, too. There's a divide between the traditional view that the perfect diss never gets finished, and the good one is a finished on opposed to an emerging view that it needs to be nearly publishable already because digital access to dissertations is making publishers less willing to publish books from historians.
Since our tenure system is usually based on publishing your dissertation as a book, it's kind of a chaotic time in the history world.
And I should have studied some environmental history along the way. Lots of decent jobs require that, and I didn't do it.
Actually it was Alien Covenant, I was disappointed
My kids & my family are scattered from Washington to Delaware, and all across Texas. It's a good way for me to see the grandbabies growing up, and maintain contact with a couple of old friends that I left behind physically about four moves ago. Like I've said, you scroll past the bad for the good. But yeah, it's not for everyone, and some of the stuff gets tedious.
PapLew doesn't DO musicals. I'll probably end up seeing that one on DVD.
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