Day: October 17, 2004

It’s cold, my hands hurt. The fall colors are gorgeous and I wish I were a better photographer who could capture some of the magic. I love October best of all, but it’s also sad, because one of my least favorite months, November, is howling like a wolf at the door. In November, my skin…

Meanwhile, « badly mismanaged Delta Air Lines reports that it is running out of cash »: ‘Delta Air Lines, which is struggling to avoid a bankruptcy filing, said yesterday that it expected to lose as much as $675 million for the third quarter and that it was using cash at a steep rate. The news…

I was feeling sorry for myself on the way home last night (the usual grad student complaints and kvetches, not worth going into detail about) until a trio of first-year biz school students got on the bus and started exchanging grim graveyard jokes with one another about how they were failing all of their classes…

Yesterday was the beginning of the term “study break” (what a joke) and also of (true) autumn: rain most of the day (not heavy, but not sporadic, either), windy conditions, and cold that that was deep enough to make me actually rue not having brought my gloves and a heavy jacket. I waited for the…

It’s currently 39 on its way down to 35 degrees overnight. It’s the 16th of October. I’d say I want to move back south to New Mexico, but I’m told Santa Fe got a huge snow dump the other day. I’m not going to be warm again until May, am I?

Banned from the bike though I am, I did manage to sneak a ride tonight. I had a meeting with a client on the UM campus. So I loaded the Bobcat into the Jeep and drove to a parking spot as close as I could get, then got out the bike and rode the six…