Tonight Elizabeth and I are having Thanksgiving dinner with friends of hers and she planned to bring 4 things so we did some cooking. It was pretty easy. She made a pie in the morning and mashed potatoes. I helped with chopping and other preparation. The we had time to kill since there was just … Read more
Elizabeth had a day shift with her medical scribe job so she was out of the apartment before 7am and would be back after 4pm so the day was mine. I had keys so after I got up, I walked 2 blocks towards campus to go to the grocery store there and pick up a … Read more
My daughter Elizabeth was able to take the day mostly off and we visited Washington DC. It is a delightful treat that it’s a simple hour train ride from Baltimore to Union Station in DC. And all day we had nice luck with various transportation connections. The JHU shuttle was a couple minutes away when … Read more
This morning my daughter Elizabeth and I did some grocery shopping in the morning, getting ready for Thanksgiving. Then I did some work from the JHU campus while she practiced piano and got ready for a performance she has Monday. After she needed to get back to her apartment to change for her afternoon volunteer … Read more
My flight to Baltimore is today so I was up at 4am. But I also woke up at midnight thinking of how best to get from Baltimore Washington airport to Elizabth’s apartment with extra luggage. I’ve done it before but I wasn’t excited about rolling two big bags down city streets. Ultimately I decided my … Read more
Today was my day to finally go with Chris and her friends to the UMAGA market. Chris doesn’t remember what UMAGA stands for and now the place seems to be called the Minnesota Market. But it’s a wholesale market that once a year has a weekend sample sale. It’s laid out in a large building … Read more
After driving Chris to school and working for a bit, I made more meatballs plus stuffed mushrooms for game night tonight. The mushrooms turned out nicely. They are a fun and simple appetizer. I started my LinkedIn prospecting system for myself and it will be a few weeks before it starts to show results. Plus … Read more
The day was pretty ordinary. I worked. I made red sauce and meatballs. I also roasted half of a pork roast I needed to finish. (The first half went into curry earlier). In the evening, my girlfriend Chris and I went to a literary burlesque event that we’ve enjoyed before. It was a full house … Read more
I was pressed for time to come up with an email for my marketing list today. As an experiment I wrote about switching email marketing providers. Going from MailChimp, which I still use for this blog, to MailerLite which isn’t as well known. I felt the email was sort of dry and not that generally … Read more
I had two calls today, each pointed to desire for my Linkedin client prospecting product. I’ll start testing it on myself and one other person and presuming positive results, open it up to more test subjects and then paying customers. One call also reminded me that I’m good at technical sales. I learned I was … Read more