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walkitoutI did some laundry, ran Eufy in the upstairs hall and bathrooms, cooked some bacon.
I walked with M.
T. had his first math tutoring class.
I did NOT sign T. up for the next round of swim stuff; it conflicts with his math tutoring.
I forwarded T.’s learner’s permit and am waiting for a call back to schedule his in-car evaluation.
I finished really Mallory O’meara’s really awesome book _Girly Drinks_. It is an enjoyable romp around the world and through history, describing the many ways that women invented and practiced brewing and distilling over thousands of years, right up to, well, the pandemic. I learned a lot! I might even remember a little bit of it. The story of the Widow Clicquot, and alewives in England probably stuck in my brain the most (for entirely unrelated reasons), altho I am probably _most_ curious to learn more about the years of protests by black African women against beer halls during the Apartheid era. I had never heard anything about it, and that seems important.
I’m trying again to read _A Key to Dutch History_, and there’s an off-the-cuff comment about “members of parliament who took part in the controversial questionnaire organised by the Historisch Nieuwsblad in 1996 and, by doing so, exposed their historical ignorance (“William of Orange was murdered in sixteen-something near Dookkum”10) had attended school before the 1963 Secondary Education Act, that is in what are now considered to be the thorough years.” Now, I do love a bit of historical ignorance and boy do I have some historical ignorance here, so I looked up William of Orange, who in this case, in English, is also known as William the Silent. 1584 is definitely not sixteen-something, and when I say Dokkum is nowhere near Delft, I just want to emphasize how difficult it is to find two places in the Netherlands further apart than Dokkum and Delft. Fun!
If I fail again to read this, I will probably go read another book about women and alcohol. I have a couple more queued up and ready to go.
I walked with M.
T. had his first math tutoring class.
I did NOT sign T. up for the next round of swim stuff; it conflicts with his math tutoring.
I forwarded T.’s learner’s permit and am waiting for a call back to schedule his in-car evaluation.
I finished really Mallory O’meara’s really awesome book _Girly Drinks_. It is an enjoyable romp around the world and through history, describing the many ways that women invented and practiced brewing and distilling over thousands of years, right up to, well, the pandemic. I learned a lot! I might even remember a little bit of it. The story of the Widow Clicquot, and alewives in England probably stuck in my brain the most (for entirely unrelated reasons), altho I am probably _most_ curious to learn more about the years of protests by black African women against beer halls during the Apartheid era. I had never heard anything about it, and that seems important.
I’m trying again to read _A Key to Dutch History_, and there’s an off-the-cuff comment about “members of parliament who took part in the controversial questionnaire organised by the Historisch Nieuwsblad in 1996 and, by doing so, exposed their historical ignorance (“William of Orange was murdered in sixteen-something near Dookkum”10) had attended school before the 1963 Secondary Education Act, that is in what are now considered to be the thorough years.” Now, I do love a bit of historical ignorance and boy do I have some historical ignorance here, so I looked up William of Orange, who in this case, in English, is also known as William the Silent. 1584 is definitely not sixteen-something, and when I say Dokkum is nowhere near Delft, I just want to emphasize how difficult it is to find two places in the Netherlands further apart than Dokkum and Delft. Fun!
If I fail again to read this, I will probably go read another book about women and alcohol. I have a couple more queued up and ready to go.
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Date: 2022-04-12 11:00 pm (UTC)But did you notice what happened to Gerard?
Date: 2022-04-12 11:10 pm (UTC)Re: But did you notice what happened to Gerard?
Date: 2022-04-12 11:14 pm (UTC)Re: But did you notice what happened to Gerard?
Date: 2022-04-12 11:23 pm (UTC)I apologize. I probably shouldn’t have pointed that out.