Truth or Treachery?

It was an incredible ski day; fresh powder each run - some knee deep and quite light. The visibility was limited by falling snow, but that is a quintessential Schweitzer condition. All in all, a
perfect Schweitzer Friday, with no crowd. Unfortunately, I was sick and unable to ski, so the above description relies on the veracity of Eli's report. Put that together with the unwritten law that skiers who were there exaggerate the excellence of the conditions to those not there (called 'lying' unless you're a politician) - and I really don't know how the ski conditions were today.

I did receive a serious if informal invitation to teach at Malaspina University College next Fall term. I accepted - it will be a good opportunity. They could also use me in the Spring term, but I must wait on the outcome of the Fulbright possibility.

Richard
2006.01.27

There it goes

January, along with the moon, is waning. The higher country has gathered enough water-soaked snow to suggest that a summer drought is becoming a remote possibility. I may ski tomorrow or perhaps the day after - depending on the ski report, as filtered through years of living in Northidaho (I think it's one word). I've become fussy - I don't like crowds and without significant fresh snow, I'm not that interested.

I've been working on a presentation I'll give at Malaspina at the end of March. It discusses Free/Libre Open Source Software using Friedman's 'The World Is Flat' as an organizational tool. It's fun to speculate what FLOSS and the Internet will do to the inhabitants of this distressed planet, with all the other forces that have been unleashed. After the presentation, I'll put a link to the talk in this blog to maximize your ennui.

Eli's mother turns 83 tomorrow. What an example she sets! Physically active and intellectually alive, she will be hard to emulate as we age. She comes home between trips, because she doesn't want the condo plants to die of neglect. She leaves next week for Monterey, CA. We wonder whom she will take care of once we've died.

Richard
2006.01.18