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A while ago, I was blogging Xenophon’s Anabasis here, but stopped, and have been absolutely quiet about Greek. I’ve still been studying Greek, but found that the labor of translating into readable English and posting it to the blog demanded too much time. Also, I suspect that forcing myself (an intermediate Greek student, at most) […]
I just received this box of pens, pencils, Post-Its, and notebooks that I had ordered at work.
What follows is the trail of 35 emails (in reverse chronological order), stretching over a year, to get them.
—–Original Message—–
From: Sherman, Stephen [GWM-O_T]
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:15 PM
To: Sxxxxxx, Melissa [GWM-O_T]; Gxxxxxx, Luz [GWM-O_T]
Subject: FW: Mail Ready for […]
The Compact OED, which answers every question (related to English word usage over time) imaginable. For example, did people use straw (i.e. dried bits of grass) in the same way we use manufactured those little paper or plastic drinking tubes of the same name? Since paper straws were first manufactured in the 1880’s, […]
My sister seems to have too much real estate on her hands, and is making this unique raffle offer on her house in New Hampshire (North Conway area).
Unique offer.
Remington Model 870™ Express® Youth
First, I like the idea of a shotgun. Handguns are too heavily regulated, and, I suppose, for good reasons. If a gun in the house is an accident waiting to happen; that goes double for handguns. After a bit of research on the internet, I decided on a […]
As my readers know, my 88 year-old Dad went into a nursing home a couple months ago.
Against the wishes of the rational members of the family, he was released, and went back to his own house, where he is now, with my 83 year-old mother and a round-the-clock nurse’s aide. He was in a wheelchair, […]
Here’s my Dad in the nursing home, looking at a book with my sister Ellen. It was a perfect gift that she got for him, his interests being quite narrow: a book of pictures of Provincetown in the early Twentieth Century, when it was a community of Portuguese fishermen, like his family.
My Dad’s condition is […]
The drop in NYC murders has been widely reported, and former mayor Rudy Giuliani has taken credit for it:
Under Mayor Giuliani’s leadership, overall crime was cut by 56%, murder was cut by 66%, and New York City—once considered the crime capital of the country—became the safest large city in America according to the FBI.
I […]
After 4 years, I got completely tired of “the Commissar,” who has long outlived his usefulness.
Most of you know that my name is Stephen Sherman.
That’s me in the sidebar.
Small boats seen as a terror threat - USATODAY.com
The nation’s 17 million small boats are facing increased scrutiny from the Homeland Security Department, which fears they could be used in a nuclear attack or a lethal explosion at a U.S. port.
Okay, no more beans.
I’ve been pre-occupied recently with my octogenarian parents’ health care issues.
My Dad has reached the point where he has to go into a nursing home or long-term care. In his more lucid moments, he agrees, but he’s pretty confused. A few years ago, he signed the documents empowering my sister to make such […]
I’ve been looking at this for a couple weeks:
And will be getting back to regular life and Xenophon’s Anabasis soon.
Please check out my latest site: Adirondacks Life.
We’ll be up at Saranac Lake for the next two weeks.
The first week, we’ll be camping on an island, and the second week we’ll be in our usual unit, so I’ll probably do some blogging, more likely in the second week.
Cheers,
I’ll be posting less about news and politics, and perhaps more about some of my obscure and ever-changing interests, which this month happen to be ships of World War Two and learning ancient Greek.
As far as current events go, I remain interested in reading about them, but I no longer have any great certainty […]
