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Portfolio 2007-04 +4.10%

Well.  Now.  That’s more like it.

2007-04-30 Monday

Skip my vitamins for two days and what do I get?  Mr.B’s plague.  Just try and tell me the two things aren’t related.  Just try.

2007-04-29 Sunday

Today’s cloud cover is a blessing as I had more than enough sun yesterday.

2007-04-28 Hanna: Stubbs/Maxwell Loop

111 minutes, 6.83 miles, 3.7 mph, HR=97.  Includes rain aborted portion from last week.

2007-04-26 Thursday

Thanks to Tony, my boat is in the water!  Thanks to Crystal Pierz Marine, it runs much better.  I’m thinking paint ball gun for goose gone.

2007-04-26 Dell Precision M70

Checking file system on T: 
The type of the file system is FAT32.
The volume is dirty.
volume serial number is 12F3-1C61
windows is verifying the files and folders . . .
2 percent completed . . .

My laptop display has been acting weird, so I’m half expecting some sort of issue.  This isn’t it, however.  “T” is the external storage drive here at my office.

2007-04-25 Wednesday

Al brought me two of my favorite donut thingies, just in case my day goes badly.  I’ve left one in the box with the attitude it will not be a two donut day.

Thirty Nine

Caribou Coffee #39.

“Two Lives” by Vikram Seth

This is a heartrending new book, the story of a marriage and the story of two lives, from the author of the international best-selling novel A Suitable Boy.

Shanti Behari Seth was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in the eighth year of the twentieth century; he died two years before its close. He was brought up in India in the apparently vigorous but dying Raj and was sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin, though he could not speak a word of German, to study medicine and dentistry. It was here, before he migrated to Britain, that Shanti’s path first crossed that of his future wife.

Helga Gerda Caro, known to everyone as “Henny” was also born in 1908, in Berlin, to a Jewish family, cultured, patriotic, and intensely German. When the family decided to take Shanti as a lodger, Henny’s first reaction was, “Don’t take the black man!” But a friendship flowered, and when Henny fled Hitler’s Germany for England just one month before war broke out, she was met at Victoria Station by the only person in the country she knew: Shanti.

Vikram Seth has woven together their astonishing story, which recounts the arrival into this childless couple’s lives of their great-nephew from India, the teenage student Vikram Seth. The result is an extraordinary tapestry of India, the Third Reich and the Second World War, Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Israel and Palestine, postwar Germany and 1970s Britain.

Two Lives is both a history of a violent century seen through the eyes of two survivors and an intimate portrait of their friendship, marriage, and abiding yet complex love. Part biography, part memoir, part meditation on our times, this is the true tale of two remarkable lives, a masterful telling from one of our greatest living writers.

2007-04-23 Monday

Six weeks ago the plan for today was to get a haircut in the morning and spend the rest of the day working on my tan.  Little did I know there would be some database conversions that needed doing.  After my haircut I went home for some lunch and to let the dogs out.  It could be a very long afternoon at the office. * Much to my delight, that database conversion was uneventful.  I was done in less than an hour.

2007-04-23 Woodway Treadmill

60 minutes, 3.78 miles and Ugly Betty; “Trust, Lust, and Must”.

2007-04-22 Sunday

Church.  Walk aborted by rain.

2007-04-21 Saturday

They’re putting in my dock !!!  I think I might add a canoe to my fleet.  I don’t understand why folks keep moving my Caribou Coffee Gift Card Travel Bug without using it.  We saw “The Merchant of Venice” at the Guthrie.  Grilled steaks and enjoyed them on the dock.

2007-04-20 Friday

Skipped the gym again this morning in order to restart that blasted server.  This incident erodes the Windows Update theory and we are now looking at the backup routine.  This makes me happy, actually.  I would love to be more familiar with the backup routine’s workings. * Last year I couldn’t get Avery to ride in the bicycle side car for anything, and I had given thought to selling it, this year she’s crawling in the thing on her own wanting to go for a bike ride.  Now if we could only quit already with the heated debate about the value of a bike helmet before every ride. 

2007-04-20 Video!