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walkitoutAfter breakfast, we picked up T. and went to the Thomas Edison National Historic Park. Obviously, over the years I have read a lot about Edison, lightbulbs, recorded music, motion pictures, time clocks and assorted other odds and ends. I’ve seen pictures. I had formed fixed (and largely negative) opinions of Edison, largely based on the sleep thing, and the patent thing (he was a proponent of not sleeping very much, but he napped all the time on the job; he tended to patent things that were relatively minor changes on top of other patents and then harass the original patent owner, and he was viciously litigious when the same was done to him). I wasn’t ever going to voluntarily go look at this park, however, it’s _right here_, and it was open and it seemed like a plausible activity.
I’m glad I went. While I had seen pictures, I’d never walked through the space, and walking through the space always adds … more dimensions to one’s understanding of another person and their time. No one there was of a mind to read all the plaques and take forever, so we walked around and then drove over to Llewellyn Park to see the mansion and the carriage house and then we went out to lunch at The Rock, which is at a golf course (a public one). I had the asian salad, which is marked on the menu as dairy free, which was delightful. I had it with tofu; the tofu was meh. I mean, it was fine, but I was hoping for fried and it really was not.
Dinner was meatballs, pasta and red sauce, with some grilled veg. That was awesome. J. fried some chicken tenders and french fries for A. She was happy. J. helped me with the main build of the Lego Fish Tank. That was really cute, and the structure is pretty close to the dimensions of the shoe box diorama I’ve been thinking about, so I’ll try to figure out how to hang walls on it to make the shoe box, once I’ve done the rest of the builds.
A. and I talked about (and then J. — son, not father) added to an idea we have for making changes to English to move the Overton Window on getting people to default to They for third person singular unless something else is definitely called for. That’ll be in a different post. It’s an interesting project, and J. was pushing for a lot more changes than I felt like I was ready to take on. But it was useful to have two people pushing hard to get rid of all of the singulars. I’ve been wanting to for several reasons, not least of which is how it means No More Conjugation.
Oh, and it is our 17th Wedding Anniversary. R. took a picture of us at The Rock and posted it to FB, so tons of people congratulated us, and I thanked J. for making us a lovely dinner for our anniversary and he was surprised, but had chilled champagne all ready to go. Pretty fun!
I’m glad I went. While I had seen pictures, I’d never walked through the space, and walking through the space always adds … more dimensions to one’s understanding of another person and their time. No one there was of a mind to read all the plaques and take forever, so we walked around and then drove over to Llewellyn Park to see the mansion and the carriage house and then we went out to lunch at The Rock, which is at a golf course (a public one). I had the asian salad, which is marked on the menu as dairy free, which was delightful. I had it with tofu; the tofu was meh. I mean, it was fine, but I was hoping for fried and it really was not.
Dinner was meatballs, pasta and red sauce, with some grilled veg. That was awesome. J. fried some chicken tenders and french fries for A. She was happy. J. helped me with the main build of the Lego Fish Tank. That was really cute, and the structure is pretty close to the dimensions of the shoe box diorama I’ve been thinking about, so I’ll try to figure out how to hang walls on it to make the shoe box, once I’ve done the rest of the builds.
A. and I talked about (and then J. — son, not father) added to an idea we have for making changes to English to move the Overton Window on getting people to default to They for third person singular unless something else is definitely called for. That’ll be in a different post. It’s an interesting project, and J. was pushing for a lot more changes than I felt like I was ready to take on. But it was useful to have two people pushing hard to get rid of all of the singulars. I’ve been wanting to for several reasons, not least of which is how it means No More Conjugation.
Oh, and it is our 17th Wedding Anniversary. R. took a picture of us at The Rock and posted it to FB, so tons of people congratulated us, and I thanked J. for making us a lovely dinner for our anniversary and he was surprised, but had chilled champagne all ready to go. Pretty fun!