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New time zone? Game Day & Pisgah

Posted on October 14, 2024

This weekend I think I moved to Eastern Standard Time as Jonah and I got up at 2:00 am to get to ESPN’s “College Game Day” broadcast, which was held on the UO campus. Then the next day, I got up early again to head back to Mt. Pisgah for my long run. Yes, I am tired. Game Day in the early hours That is the band way back there near the Lillis College of Business. We were near the front of one of the side-stages. Here they are talking with the UO head coach, Dan Lanning. We both found it fascinating to watch how everything was coordinated and timed. The segments shown on TV gave the people a break and the support staff…

Something old, something new

Posted on October 9, 2024

An old photo of my mom, Clara Josephine Roach, from probably 1945 or so. She was a beautiful young woman. I’ve been helping out Nora’s softball team lately by selling tickets to other sporting events at the high school and leaves are changing ’round here. Lovely in all the best ways. Mom, on my work bulletin board. Ticket sales. When folks ask what constitutes a “Senior Citizen,” my response is that the answer lies in the hair color. It gets a laugh and they get in free to boot. 😉 One of my favorite campus trees, outside of Friendly Hall. Autumn is a stunner.

West of the sunrise & Leading Lines

Posted on October 4, 2024

Here are a few photos from this morning . . .I stopped by the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact to grab a coffee on my way to work and decided to take the sky bridge from the Knight Campus to the main campus. The sun was rising and the light was lovely. Plus a memory from high school photography: leading lines. West of the sunrise, looking east from the skybridge. Knight Campus is the glass building on the left and Franklin Boulevard is below. The giant oak tree sits on the north edge of campus with the University of Oregon sign near one of the entrances. Looking back towards Knight Campus from the sky bridge. Yep, leading lines. As I took this photo,…

Goings on . . .

Posted on May 7, 2024

These past few weeks have been bumpy around here, for sure. Covid entered the house again as did other non-covid upper respiratory infections. We’re on the mend but it certainly is disruptive to life as we know it. On campus there’s a protest going on about the Israeli / Hamas war now and yesterday I walked through the area. It’s very peaceful and is located on the quad near the library and the art museum and other buildings that have classrooms. My best guess is that it will remain that way and likely will be here until the end of Spring Term, in mid-June. Rainbows are always cool. They force us to look up. 🙂 Rainflys are helpful in our weather of late. This…

Soup & water

Posted on January 12, 2024

I ate sparsely this morning for breakfast… then ran on an empty stomach… it was a struggle from mile 3 onwards… Returned and heated up the chickpea & pasta soup that Sara made last night… that and some water reset the system…