My MacBook Pro laptop keyboard B doesn’t always work.

Jeff Tweedy’s memoir, Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back) is so good. I listened to the audiobook in the car over the last week.

With my daughters in Chicago.

Lukim yu, Mungau

I was astonished, and saddened, to see an obituary for Mungau Dain in today’s NYTimes. He was Ni-Vanuatu from Tanna Island, starred in the film Tanna. Mungau was young, and died from an infected wound. And he was in the capital, which has the best health care in the country. “Mr. Dain had traveled to Port-Vila because he was seeking work as a fruit picker in Australia or New Zealand.”

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Taking my teen daughters to Chicago next weekend. I see the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is on. What else is happening in the Windy City? Art? Music? Food? Coffee? (Won’t make the trip out to my hometown, DeKalb, but my mother will come in to join us.)

And the precipitation wastes no time - starts as mini hail.

Time (again) to look for a reliable web host that doesn’t force me to use Cpanel and isn’t GoDaddy. WebFaction, which I’ve liked, now owned by the abhorrent GoDaddy. I’m a digital nomad.

Family movie night is one we haven’t seen in years, and it’s bringing tears to our eyes yet again: Fly Away Home.

More genealogy tonight, tracking through my Radio3 linklog.

My new blog post gives an update on my nearly complete decade of narrative (aka my 40s). Thankfully, the Voices of Duke Health listening booth and podcast are giving the the last 9 years meaning.

Planning a family trip to Ireland. Will gladly take suggestions for lodging & activities, in Dublin, Galway and all around.

A Christmas cold for me, so it’s a cup of coffee, a box of tissues, and Boxing Day football (English Premier League) underneath the warm, soft blanket my wife gave me yesterday.

Clarification: I’m getting rid of most, if not all, of my social media accounts, but planning to more actively blog and be on my own site in 2019.

Just deleted my inactive Instagram account. Flickr next to go. I ditched Facebook 5 years ago. I’d like to flee Twitter except I use Dave’s various tools and they rely on Twitter for authentication. Basically, I’m on the brink of cyber-suicide. Keeping my blog, though.

Snowstorm in North Carolina. Oliver and I went out for a few minutes.

I like Friday mornings at Duke University Hospital. We get Medicine Grand Rounds started, then I sit outside the auditorium drinking coffee and chatting with latecomers, I listen to the pianist in the lobby below, and I plan a day of reading and writing and conversation.

Cherry pie ready for the Thanksgiving table. Turkey is in the oven.

Just arrived from the Netherlands (via Etsy), a beauty of a typing machine, Olympia SM2 1952. On my desk in the library, ready for Saturday-morning creativity.

Can’t put up with this any longer: I hate the keyboard on my MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017).

Real Friends at Cat’s Cradle, 11.09.2018 (Boston Manor opened and was quite good).