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Monthly Archives: July 2007

Managing “The Wall” through Trump Towers

July 5, 2007 – 10:17 am

FYI: Today’s 5-mile tempo run was muggy: (+68f, 100% humidity, bugs galore).
Okay, I really didn’t like it as an 8th grader, but I think as a teacher, Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” (part II) makes me smile:
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave the kids alone
Hey [...]

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A holiday decluttering of a workspace

July 4, 2007 – 3:53 pm

And thus, here is the before picture and if you go to the source file on flickr, you will get an annotation of all of the stuff that is happening in there (books, cds, piles and piles). In fact, in my original caption, I’m almost proud of all of the things that are cluttering the [...]

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Vergil runs, but its really about the coffee

July 3, 2007 – 3:00 pm

As the content of this site has drifted from thoughts and musings to a record of my running marathons (and training), I’m finding that I’m drifting back to thoughts and musings while running and training for Netflix marathons.
So, as of today, I’m starting to morph this site (and its design) to fit a domain name [...]

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Pragmatic Banking (checkbook and/or Quickenish and/or online)

July 3, 2007 – 9:28 am

I’ve grappled with this one since our bank in Bloomington offered “phone banking” (”using the keypad, enter the amount…”): what is the most effective (and/or efficient) way to do your personal banking?
First off, I don’t subscribe to the “wait-until-the-statement-comes-out” way of banking. You know: look at the statement and HOPE that you have some extra [...]