I haven’t been following this story, but noticed this on CNN’s home page. Two students had taken the school to court saying that the school should wait until all of the current student body has graduated. Their case was rejected.  I graduated from Wells College in 1983.

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I got a monthly beer delivery for for Rich from www.hogshead.com a bunch of years ago and it is really awesome.

Groovy little micro breweries from around the country that you might never know of unless you travelled to where those beers are made. I’m getting this for a really fantastic client this year.

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Very cool!!! Short films do not have many venues outside of film festivals in the u.s. Amazon Theater is actually showing some right on their website! Granted there is some serious product placement going on. I don’t know if the films are created with the goal of featuring items you can buy on Amazon, or if Amazon scours the films to find items that they sell. But there is a page that says “see something you liked in the movie? Buy it here“ Sheesh – but still….

Over the last few days it has been snowing lightly but constnalty. Now there is a beautiful blanket of fluffy white snow about 6″ deep. It would have been a perfect day to play hookey and go ski out in the fields. Lucky for everyone who’s waiting for stuff from me that I’m stuck at home in front of my computer with a broken foot! :'(

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so some places are making snow but MY ski hill is au naturel and not open yet. However some of my hard core friends have already been skiing there. They HIKE up and ski down. I was told that with 2″ of crust and 2″ of fresh snow on top of that, it was already sweet this weekend. Boo hoo. Not that even without a broken foot I am in any shape to hike up that steep place!

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Rich and I were bidding on a pair of Sherpa Snow Shoes with step in bindings. They have stopped manufacturing them (ummm out of business) and we have been trying to get some for two years. A pair came on ebay for $60. We were the only bidder at $60 for days and days. Of course, when there were only 4 minutes left, a “sniper” appeared. (I have also sniped before successfully…so I am not saying there is anything wrong with it.) I was upstairs watching and refreshing, over remote desktop to my computer downstairs. When I saw that the person had overbid my max, I went to put in a new maximum bid. It asked me for my password again. That was downstairs next to my computer. I have a broken foot and am on crutches and there were only 3 minutes left! I managed to get down the stairs without killing myself. I had to get the screen warmed up, log back into my windows session and enter the password. I managed to do this with 20 seconds left. I had to raise my maximum 2 more times and managed to get them! Oh the pounding heart! But I really wanted them! I have a pair of Sherpas with lace up bindings because I did not have crampon compatible hiking boots at the time I originally bought them. Now when Rich and I are winter hiking, it takes me about 10 minutes to get into my snowshoes, so I have been really wanting these for years. Sometimes Rich lets me use his and he uses mine so he doesn’t have to wait for me (he can lace ’em up faster) Hooray!!! These are fantastic showshoes. I have no idea why they went out of business.

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I can’t bear the idea of sitting around for 3 weeks. Sure I’ll get lots of work done, but puh-lease! Of course now there’s snow on the ground, so walking the dogs is not going to work. And if we go on the road, I can’t really hold two 140 lb dogs on leash while I hobble on crutches. My neighbors have already gone skiing (where there is snow being made) and they are going to have to learn not to talk to me about that. I think I’m going to have to do lots of exercises during this time so that when I can ski again, my legs won’t be lasagna noodles. Egad – day 3 and I’m already whiney. It’s really beautiful out today. Thank goodness for all of my big windows and a nice view and my wireless!

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for the next month and a half. when the snow is starting to fall. Uuuuugh!

My friend Judy died in August after having lived with HIV for about ten years. She had survived many many years using only homeopathic remedies, chinese medicine and herbs and her incredible brain, though she did have to give in to everyone’s pleading and go with allapathic treatments over the last six years or so. People are not used to the idea of women having AIDS. Today’s World AIDS Day made a point of focusing on the fact that there are also a lot of women who have AIDS. To me the message that is relayed in the images to the left is the most important. Judy was an incredible person who has affected the lives of many people and even though part of her is not with us any more, she will certainly continue to be a part of our lives in many ways.

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This little puppy (shown here at 7 weeks but now is 12 weeks) was one puppy in my parents’ recent pair of litters. (They breed Newfoundlands) She had a little problem and my mom had to take her to the vet today with the understanding that once he looked deeper into the problem they may have had to put her down. But it turned out the problem was not so bad and is now fixed and we’re all happy. Maybe someday Little Miss Blue will get to live in Vermont, but I am in a long line of people who’s heart she has stolen!