planetarium (we saw the stars too)
museum of natural science (it was "reptiles and amphibians day")
I came home, but still have some pictures to post. Tonight I thought I'd show Duke chapel, since we're on the subject of "all things Duke."
It's hard to take a good picture here, but you get the point.
looking back
the crypt, where they bury dead people--and have children's
Sunday school
Robert E. Lee is carved into the building, alongside Christian saints and martyrs. Hmm...
It's hard to take a good picture here, but you get the point.
looking back
the crypt, where they bury dead people--and have children'sSunday school
Robert E. Lee is carved into the building, alongside Christian saints and martyrs. Hmm...
corn crib
tobacco
"tobacco factory"
bed and bed key
looking out
I spent the day at the library at Duke.
It was beautiful outside (not that I spent much time there):
The library was interesting... First, the high-tech shelves in the main library. (Apparently I've been out of it for the past several years--I've never seen this before.)
The shelves are all crammed together:
You push a button to move one set of shelves to the left or to the right:
Then there was the reading room, where you look at old documents and stuff they only have one copy of. It felt a bit like a prison:
It was beautiful outside (not that I spent much time there):
The library was interesting... First, the high-tech shelves in the main library. (Apparently I've been out of it for the past several years--I've never seen this before.)
The shelves are all crammed together:
You push a button to move one set of shelves to the left or to the right:
Then there was the reading room, where you look at old documents and stuff they only have one copy of. It felt a bit like a prison:
- You had to leave all of your stuff in a locker before you went in. You couldn't even take a bottle of water in.
- You could take a pencil--but not a pen.
- There was 24-hour video surveillance.
- You signed all sorts of forms, and observed...interesting...warnings like this: "Slide folders back into box rather than pushing them in with strong downward pressure."
- There was a five-minute limit on the copy machine. Apparently all the enthusiastic researchers can form quite a line...
Only in Alabama do you hear the car beside you blaring "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" out its windows.
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
-Wendell Berry
-Wendell Berry
I received this really helpful email today in response to my question about an online tax program:
Our pricing are shown on the screen before you start the tax return preparation takes place when you started the tax return first time. If we increase the price later on, the price you pay at the end will be less because you started the return before the price was raised. On the other hand, if we lowered the price, you will be paying high price. Again which web site you are using that comes in the picture.
The bottom line is, the day you started the return first time and the website you started return from are the two parameters, we go by. Those are the prices you will be paying what you saw on the screen and that is what we charge when you finish regardless of what it says on the screen.
Our pricing are shown on the screen before you start the tax return preparation takes place when you started the tax return first time. If we increase the price later on, the price you pay at the end will be less because you started the return before the price was raised. On the other hand, if we lowered the price, you will be paying high price. Again which web site you are using that comes in the picture.
The bottom line is, the day you started the return first time and the website you started return from are the two parameters, we go by. Those are the prices you will be paying what you saw on the screen and that is what we charge when you finish regardless of what it says on the screen.
Since this afternoon, people from these countries have visited my blog:
I'm not exactly sure how blogger directed all of them here...but welcome, everyone!
- Columbia
- Romania
- Brazil
- USA
- Spain
- Germany
- Greece
- Israel
- England
- India
- Portugal
- Canada
- France
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Italy
- Egypt
- Argentina
I'm not exactly sure how blogger directed all of them here...but welcome, everyone!
firebox for an old still? (or something else?)
inside
piece of iron dug up nearby
old chair (?) nearby
I obviously didn't mean to take this picture, but I thought it was kind of interesting looking--
Only centuries that are divisible by 400 are leap years. 2000 was a leap year. 1800 and 1900 were not.
Leader: You're all doing a great job decorating your pictures!
First grader: Mine doesn't look very professional.
First grader: Mine doesn't look very professional.
More than a quarter of American children under the age of two have a TV in their room.
The Adult Choir will preset the musical One Mall Child" during the Morning Worship Service
Leader: To persevere means to keep going even when life is hard. Has there ever been a time when you persevered?
GA 1: When my grandfather died.
GA 2: When my dog ate too many pistachio nuts and it made his back hurt.
GA 1: When my grandfather died.
GA 2: When my dog ate too many pistachio nuts and it made his back hurt.
interesting
I don't have a huge interest in politics. But judging from the "younger evangelical" events I've attended over the past few years, I really do think he's right on target.
I don't have a huge interest in politics. But judging from the "younger evangelical" events I've attended over the past few years, I really do think he's right on target.
When it gets really cold outside, my house has trouble staying warm.
It was freezing cold outside last night. This morning, I walked into the kitchen and saw a cup my friend gave me. This cup is clear, but turns blue when you pour a cold drink in it or put it in the refrigerator.
You guessed it. The cup was sitting on the kitchen counter, bright blue.
I can't wait till summer!
It was freezing cold outside last night. This morning, I walked into the kitchen and saw a cup my friend gave me. This cup is clear, but turns blue when you pour a cold drink in it or put it in the refrigerator.
You guessed it. The cup was sitting on the kitchen counter, bright blue.
I can't wait till summer!
Girl: I've been sick. I missed a week of school!
Me: Oh, I'm sorry!
Girl: I had a viral virus!
Me: Oh, I'm sorry!
Girl: I had a viral virus!
I came back.
Everyone always asks me about jet lag. I don't usually have much problem with this. Some tips:
Everyone always asks me about jet lag. I don't usually have much problem with this. Some tips:
- Set your watch to your new time zone as soon as you get on the plane. When it's nighttime, rest. When it's daytime, stay up.
- Don't drink caffeine.
- Take vitamins or herbal supplements.
- Sleep for a long time the first night you get home.
- Get back into your regular schedule immediately.
So if you wanted to ask, now you don't have to: Yes, I am in the correct time zone now.
Tyn church
this place looked too scary to visit
one of the school's two new "eco-friendly lawnmowers"
one sad thing: It hasn't been cold enough to snow while I've been here--very unusual.
one amusing thing: British people apparently call quotation marks "inverted commas."
one annoying thing: The walls of the room are so thin that I can not only hear the guy next door talking very loudly in Russian (?) on the phone each night--I can also (barely) hear his wife on the other end.
one weird thing: Surfing the internet from another country gives you strange ads--including ones about winning a green card. (Instant ticket to the USA!)
one amusing thing: British people apparently call quotation marks "inverted commas."
one annoying thing: The walls of the room are so thin that I can not only hear the guy next door talking very loudly in Russian (?) on the phone each night--I can also (barely) hear his wife on the other end.
one weird thing: Surfing the internet from another country gives you strange ads--including ones about winning a green card. (Instant ticket to the USA!)
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