Well, it's another case of blog negligence. I've ignored this Chronicle for months, but at least I've got excuses--lots of 'em. Basically they all have to do with moving's aftermath, in this instance the interval between starting our official residence at our new address (for two of the three in our household, anyway) & selling the old home. We're still emptying the house of our stuff, & it ain't easy. Going by how long some of us lived there, that's 40 years of accumulation!

Anyhow, a month ago I was invited to an event honoring Dr. Cornell. Seems the local U's making a virtual museum of its biology collections, or at least some of them, & naming the assemblage (& a single room) after him. Before leaving I finally asked him how he ended up here, & he explained that--presumably once he'd finished his degrees--he received two job offers. The other one was from a school in eastern North Dakota; & when he saw a picture of a building there, surrounded by a flat, relatively dull landscape, he knew how to decide!

His elder son, one of my closest childhood friends, also showed up. I hadn't seen him in at least 20 years. He's still a Methodist minister & married to the wife he'd evidently met in the mid-70s. I mentioned finding a high-school girlfriend of his on the Net: None other than the classmate I rediscovered a year ago. Forgot to tell him certain of the details I'd learned/suspected, but maybe that's just as well.

Meanwhile, some two weeks previously, our band kept its single commitment so far this year by performing at several downtown establishments on St. Patrick's Day. Borrowed two Canadian drummers for the occasion. Funny how my beret tam, which I'd dropped upside-down without much thought on the pool table we usually play around at the first (& perhaps most favored) venue, became a target for cash! Wonder if we'll even see more of a season than that this year.