Archive for March 2009

05 Mar 2009 1256H

The first good day of the year

Typically I like to write about the Last Good Day of the Year, per the haunting Cousteau song. But there is no way to mark what surely is the first good day of the year, a beautiful if gusty day in the mid 60s. Like any typical Midwesterner knows, it can’t last.

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02 Mar 2009 2317H

Lent, Weak (sic) One

Seems rather silly to mark the milestone but we’ve nearly made it an entire week without meat and animal products. Of course, within US practice, we are taking a rather extreme view, as one can see here, meat is not allowed, but eggs, milk and condiments made of animal fat are allowed. In contrast [...]

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