May’s Mutterings: Rants and Ramblings
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Chronicles of the Mole Family, Chapter 6
Woodpeckers! I actually couldn’t tell you the difference between a woodpecker and a red-crowned crane (or any other bird), but spring is almost here, which means the birds are returning, and one of the unintended consequences about our construction is that when you leave gaping holes in parts of your house, birds can fly in. …
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Restaurant Eve Tasting Menu
We had dinner with some good friends at Restaurant Eve in Alexandria, Virginia on Saturday night. We chose to do the chef’s choice 9 course tasting menu. Here are the 9+ dishes (there were some additions to the official 9 courses along the way): We started with the sashimi of steelhead trout with caramelized shallot…
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US-Japan Leadership Program Executive Committee Meeting
After attending the Epilepsy Pipeline conference for a day, I flew to Honolulu to attend the annual US-Japan Leadership Program Executive Committee meeting. Honolulu was, as it always seems to be, beautiful–80 degrees and sunny. The meeting was an extremely productive meeting. We have some marvelous Fellows-in-the-making for this year. And the energy at the…
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Epilepsy Pipeline Conference
I attended the 2012 Epilepsy Pipeline Conference in San Francisco held February 2-4 and sponsored by the Epilepsy Therapy Project. It’s a conference attended by venture capitalists, epileptologists and other medical professionals, and business people, all of whom are interested in new developments and research in the world of epilepsy. There were presentations about the…
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The Chronicles of the Mole Family, Chapter 5
We have windows! I realize that some people might take this state of affairs for granted in their house, but when you have been providing a banner year for your propane company’s revenues by semi-heating a house with huge gaping holes in it, windows are a positive development. We even have state-of-the-art windows, which are…
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
We saw Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC on Friday. We have been season ticket holders for over 10 years. Our philosophy on the Shakespeare Theatre season is that we go to the Shakespeare plays, but we are hit-and-miss on the non-Shakespeare plays. Plays by playwrights such as George Bernard Shaw…
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Chronicles of the Mole Family, Chapter 4
We use propane for our stove (at least, when we had a kitchen), the heating system, and to power the backup generator. We have 3 large propane tanks that get refilled on a quarterly basis or so. Apparently, the last time we were scheduled to get our propane tanks refilled, the truck drove by, looked…
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Happy New Year!!
It is the Year of the Dragon, a year of momentous events. Wear red, eat noodles (for long life), whole fish (for good fortune), and oranges (for more riches). And don’t clean anything today, or you will sweep out the good luck for the year! 🙂
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Chronicles of the Mole Family, Chapter 3
Construction continues to progress nicely. The goal is to finish the exterior framing by the end of this week, so that weather will not impact the work going forward. (Of course, if we do have a significant snowstorm, no one is going to be able to get to our house to do any interior work,…
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Protected: Peipei’s birthday party
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