Vacation is Coming
I am going on vacation next week in the Berkshires, which are somewhere in Massachusetts. I have not bothered to ask my mother where exactly we are going, but I do like surprises. In preparation for said vacation, I assembled my fly fishing gear yesterday. No, I do not know how to fly fish, but I have nice gear (which my parents bought me three years ago), so I am going to try it out. As for other possible activities, there is always poetry and geology. Something tells me that the Berkshires were deeply involved in the Appalachian orogenic events. (Laurentia into Avalonia...Gondwanaland into Laurentia) Yup, I sorta remember me Earth history. My only regret is that I will miss Patrick's road trip to the east.
Financial Instruments of Yore
I spent much of the day reading a diary of a soldier assigned to a military hospital in France during World War I. I was looking for pages of the diary that could be scanned for the finding aid, but I was intrigued with how much his life reminded me of mine. It was sweet to see him wishing for some Latin and Greek to read. At the beginning, he writes, "forsitan haec olim meminisse iuvabit" (Vergil, Aeneid , Book I). At the end, he quotes Horace, "caelum, animum mutant qui trans mare currunt." I believed the first, but I did not quite believe the second. He gained some surprising maturity and some unsurprising bad habits on his tour. He comments near the end with some regret that his mother wants him to go back to college.
I spent another chunk of the day going through the banknote collection of another man long dead. I saw Continental money, Confederate banknotes, and an 1842 Cashier's Check of the Bank of the United States for $100,000!
ESA(20030811.1)
I am going on vacation next week in the Berkshires, which are somewhere in Massachusetts. I have not bothered to ask my mother where exactly we are going, but I do like surprises. In preparation for said vacation, I assembled my fly fishing gear yesterday. No, I do not know how to fly fish, but I have nice gear (which my parents bought me three years ago), so I am going to try it out. As for other possible activities, there is always poetry and geology. Something tells me that the Berkshires were deeply involved in the Appalachian orogenic events. (Laurentia into Avalonia...Gondwanaland into Laurentia) Yup, I sorta remember me Earth history. My only regret is that I will miss Patrick's road trip to the east.
Financial Instruments of Yore
I spent much of the day reading a diary of a soldier assigned to a military hospital in France during World War I. I was looking for pages of the diary that could be scanned for the finding aid, but I was intrigued with how much his life reminded me of mine. It was sweet to see him wishing for some Latin and Greek to read. At the beginning, he writes, "forsitan haec olim meminisse iuvabit" (Vergil, Aeneid , Book I). At the end, he quotes Horace, "caelum, animum mutant qui trans mare currunt." I believed the first, but I did not quite believe the second. He gained some surprising maturity and some unsurprising bad habits on his tour. He comments near the end with some regret that his mother wants him to go back to college.
I spent another chunk of the day going through the banknote collection of another man long dead. I saw Continental money, Confederate banknotes, and an 1842 Cashier's Check of the Bank of the United States for $100,000!
ESA(20030811.1)
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