School for students starts tomorrow, though teachers have been back for a full week already. This means today’s my last “easy” day at work, the last day my classroom is relatively quiet, and, most importantly… the last day I can … Continue reading
Much has been made over the vaccination status of retired Yankees player and current broadcaster, Paul O’Neill. One of the most admired players of my youth, it’s a shame O’Neill’s legacy has been tarred a bit by this issue. No … Continue reading
On today’s episode of Math and Musings you will hear the somewhat unfortunate news that I had Covid. I say somewhat unfortunate because, yeah, for me it really was an absolute joke of a disease. Thankfully. Mildly inconvenient, I suppose, is … Continue reading
From the when I was a kid series… School never started until after Labor Day. Teachers returned the day after Labor Day (Tuesday), then students arrived Wednesday. Somehow without the Internet or e-mail or social media or anything like that they got … Continue reading
The Yankees and Red Sox play the ESPN Sunday night game often because, well, they put on a great show. Case in point last night, though I could have imagined a more victorious outcome for the Bronx Bombers. The team … Continue reading
Two things happened in the spring of 1989, just a few weeks apart as a matter of fact. April 3, 1989… Opening Day of the Major League Baseball season. This was the day I became obsessed with sports, aided by … Continue reading
You may have wondered where I was Monday… no post, no forwarding address or anything like that. If you’d listened to Math and Musings you knew I’d been Binghamton bound, and probably figured I was lying in a ditch somewhere. Yeah, … Continue reading
My travels this week took me to Williamsburg, Virginia, a city founded nearly 400 years ago that I had somehow never been to. Williamsburg was capital of the Virginia Colony and later Commonwealth for more than eight decades, its land … Continue reading
They trade Juan Soto and they have to face Jacob deGrom. Of course my hometown Nats, owners of the worst record in baseball, would emerge victorious over the first-place New York Mets. Makes about as much sense as anything else in … Continue reading
Last week on Math and Musings I mentioned that every kid I’d ever talked to about Great Wolf Lodge in Williamsburg said it was the greatest place on earth. Adults I talked to said it was expensive. Well… they were both right. … Continue reading