For the sixth year now I attend the summer program (2nd half) of the INTER-UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM FOR POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RESEARCH (ICPSR). My good-hearted nephew, who is an instructor there, takes me along and I sit in on one or more of the classes. We have apartments in the same building and do some things, but not everything, together. He always has lots of friends around. This year I'm "taking" Structural Equation Models w/ Latent Variables. I may add Advanced Bayesian Models for Social Scientists.
I had the date wrong so when I got a phone call from Mike saying he would there at around 10am, I quickly got my stuff together. As usual we stopped at a friend's near Paw Paw who gave us coffee and showed us the damage to her house on a small lake caused by several blown-down trees. We arrived at Maynard House around 5pm and unloaded. My furnished apartment was missing much of the furnishings because they had been cleaning the carpet and hadn't put things back. This was easily remedied. Then we went to a nearby restaurant for dinner and drinks and more conversation.
This morning at Frank's Place where Pete has reigned for year's I had my usual breakfast. I was greeted by Pete and by his son-in-law who was taking orders today. No doubt we will see the daughter, Athena, soon. She is such a pleasant person. Next to Frank's is a bicycle shop where, day after day they put about a hundred bicycles outside. In the afternoon they take them in again.
I had pizza with Mike tonight at another nearby place. We had separately found our way to a book store. I was able to have my mail forwarded on line.
I had the date wrong so when I got a phone call from Mike saying he would there at around 10am, I quickly got my stuff together. As usual we stopped at a friend's near Paw Paw who gave us coffee and showed us the damage to her house on a small lake caused by several blown-down trees. We arrived at Maynard House around 5pm and unloaded. My furnished apartment was missing much of the furnishings because they had been cleaning the carpet and hadn't put things back. This was easily remedied. Then we went to a nearby restaurant for dinner and drinks and more conversation.
This morning at Frank's Place where Pete has reigned for year's I had my usual breakfast. I was greeted by Pete and by his son-in-law who was taking orders today. No doubt we will see the daughter, Athena, soon. She is such a pleasant person. Next to Frank's is a bicycle shop where, day after day they put about a hundred bicycles outside. In the afternoon they take them in again.
I had pizza with Mike tonight at another nearby place. We had separately found our way to a book store. I was able to have my mail forwarded on line.
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