Thursday, December 6, 2018

Where oh where has the time gone. Familiar lament, I know. I just haven’t found the time to sit down and write.

The highlight of my writing hiatus was a trip back east for Thanksgiving. The highlight of which was getting to play around Philadelphia with Molly and Mitchell. I mean, where else can you go to a bar on the coldest Thanksgiving in Philadelphia’s history, and see a drag show. Ya gotta love the cradle of Independence.

Mitchell and Molly at Independence Hall.

Philly at night.

Christmas Village, the day after the coldest Thanksgiving on record.

Mitchell. Molly, and the ever cooperative, “I’ll see you in Hell for this”, Sgt. Pepper.

But just visiting Molly would be too easy a trip. In fact, the whole trip is kind of a blur. We started by dodging snowstorms and driving from Michigan to Lynn’s house in PA with a load of stuff for the trailer in Delaware. Spent the night at Lynn’s, then we headed down to Delaware. Did a couple days there, unloading the stuff we brought and cleaning up the place. Molly and Mitchell came for a visit, so we got to play with them a bit. From Delaware we took a load of Anita’s stuff back up to Lynn’s house. We did Thanksgiving Day at Lynn’s, then went down to Philly to spend more time with Molly and Mitchell. Two days in Philly, then back to Lynn’s for the night and the drive back to Michigan. Arriving back in Okemos just few hours before the next snowfall.

The gang at Cape Henlopen, Delaware.

Cape Henlopen, where the Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay come together.

Hanging at Dogfish Head brewpub.

Since then it has been pretty much the humdrum of teaching my classes, getting the house ready to sell, and packing boxes. Not very exciting but really time consuming. You move stuff downstairs to work upstairs, then you move stuff back upstairs to work downstairs.

What our dining room looks like at the moment.

I taught my last class at Lansing Community College tonight. And probably my last class ever. I’ve done some teaching gigs at Northern Michigan University and Michigan State University, but I’ve been doing LCC as an adjunct instructor since 2002. I really think I’m going to miss it. There were times the teaching was a real hassle, but overall, I enjoyed it. I generally got good reviews from the students. I’ve had enough students say that I taught the best classes they took that there may be some truth to it. I see enough of my students working in GIS around the state, so I know I had some positive impact. That feels good. Real good.