I always wanted my name painted on the office door.
But how nice to log in after my long absence and see a comment from the mayor of Maplewood on my post giving the business to the East Side Review for their coverage of recent Maplewood events. Well, I have some things to say about that and a couple of other topics, but I’m not [...]
Another great class. Pete took us through an overview of “all” the verbal moods (well, the major four plus infinitive) to help us settle in on what the subjunctive mood was about. Good stuff. I’ll probably turn some of it into a PDF soon. (Done. See “update” below.) I tore right through my first reading/translation verse [...]
I was out with all the kids, shuttling Anna to her ballet class, and since I’d overslept, I didn’t have time to make the morning coffee. I decided to swing into Java Drive, mentioned before in my post lamenting Caribou Coffee’s poor decision in changing their mocha recipe. Anyway, The very nice girl there always knows [...]
In the car I heard a commercial for a Bible with study notes - like a Life Application Bible or something. During the commercial they said something like “over 10,000 notes make God’s Word relevant!” Oh, puh-leeze. Let me thank the note writers on God’s behalf for going that extra mile and filling in the gaps, [...]
Yep, 15th! Wow, it’s been a while since I blogged on the class. Been to busy simply trying to do the work. We finished verbs and just tonight finished participles. Had a nice eureka moment: the “noun part” of the participle is only necessary to identify the antecedent, and can be ignored after it’s served [...]
Yesterday. Very nice day. The sun broke through after four grey days of rain. I had an office party on Monday where I got pizza, pie, and a nice Apple Store gift card. What to get? I think I’d like this iPod audio recording accessory, but it’s not actually out yet. Later I had a nice [...]