Delivered!
Ta daaa! The painting was well received by all!
Daughter said, "It is your best painting so far!"
Son said, "You nailed it!"
Elder granddaughter (12) said, "It's AWESOME!"
Younger granddaughter (9) took my photo with the painting.
Little Grandson (2) declared, "That's MY house!"
Daughter-in-Law had to work so I emailed her a photo of the painting
and she responded: "It's beautiful! I wish I had even half your painting ability!"
A very satisfying experience!
More photos HERE (click)
Good choice of frame, listener. I repeat my assertion that it will be an heirloom.
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Parts of Oklahoma and Kansas now face earthquake risk on par with California. [Click] “Federal map of earthquake vulnerability finds threat to seven million people in central and eastern US amid increasing oil and gas production.”
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Open letter to Donald Jr. [Click]
Chance of a Government Shutdown Very Likely to Increase Further. [Click] Shutdown? Who could have guessed?
Nation’s Top Student Loan Official Quits [Click] I wonder if the student loan issue will bring out the young voters and their parents. I have long considered the federally guaranteed student loan program (as it has come to be used) a racket to enrich colleges and impoverish students. But it was new when I was in graduate school, and few used it in the early years.
—Alan
I was far from unusual in leaving graduate school (in the mid-1970's, all public institutions of higher learning) with no debt and a bit of money in the bank. I am amazed by the stories of crushing debt among recent graduates that I read. There was no dealing with government loan forms, no artificially inflated tuition and fake scholarships to allegedly bridge the gap between maximum debt and list prices. And on top of that, almost all the lectures were taught by tenure-track professors. What changes, and not for the better.
DeleteAlan
The student loans of today seem eerily similar to payday loans. Loans you will never, ever be able to pay back or escape.
DeleteI got back from the World Science Fiction Convention (in San Jose, CA, this year) on Thursday evening and am finally catching up. Am email list I'm on got very busy while I was on the train home, with intermittent internet connection, and I've only now succeeded in reading all the messages.
ReplyDeleteI organized a group of fans taking the train both ways. Outbound we took the Southwest Chief to Los Angeles and then the Coast Starlight up the coast to San Jose. Much of that route was directly between the Coast Ranges and the ocean. We took the California Zephyr home, crossing the Cascades the first afternoon and the Rockies the second. A major attraction, beyond those of the trip itself, was the opportunity to interact with other fans. The day we left Chicago was my 82nd birthday, and the party was amazing! I learned an entirely new version of Happy Birthday!
I feel I may have spent too much time at the convention itself working for the Accessibility area. I didn't find that as rewarding as I usually do. I think I'll skip working the convention next year. (It will be in Dublin.)
1) Welcome back, Bill; sounds like a good trip.
Delete2) Was the new version of Happy Birthday appropriate for a family newspaper?
3) Dublin, Ireland?
Alan
Happy birthday, Bill! And welcome back. Love those trains.
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ReplyDeleteReport Confirms Trump Involvement In Moving FBI [Click] The story is not clear to me, but it sounds like somehow Trump was involved in some personally profitable hanky-panky.
—Alan