Garage\/yard sales are the order of the day.\u00a0 It is 6:30, the sun is barely up, it is cold out, and the wind is still blowing. \u00a0About that wind \u2013 for about 3 weeks the sustained velocity has been above 25 mph, often in the low 30s, and gusts up to 50.\u00a0 Yesterday was the first day in three weeks I didn\u2019t do something outside \u2013 I fed and watered the horses.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure they were thrilled with their day of rest. \u00a0Sunday morning the forecast claims the blowing will be down to 10 mph.<\/p>\n
I tagged along with Nancy Friday afternoon to a meeting of the Trustees of Central Washington University.\u00a0 First order of business was to have someone say nice things about recent retirees from across the employment categories.\u00a0 They don\u2019t give out gold watches.\u00a0 Maybe the deep thinkers finally realized that someone that is retiring really doesn\u2019t have the need for a watch, gold or otherwise, that might have been useful while they had a job.<\/p>\n
The Trustees are empowered to vote on bestowing titles on faculty and in the current situation have voted to name Nancy as an Emeritus Professor of Geography.\u00a0 She got to say a few words of thanks to and appreciation of CWU and of her joy of working with students. \u00a0I took a couple of pictures that are not too bad considering the nasty lighting, and then we (all the various honorees and tag-alongs) hightailed it out of there before the trustees and CWU administrators got back to figuring out how to run the University in a period of declining State revenue.<\/p>\n
In addition to the new title, Nancy will be given a continuing parking decal which, truthfully, will be more useful than the gold watch they didn\u2019t give her.\u00a0In her remarks, Nancy was dignified as is appropriate for one with such a high-faluti<\/em>n<\/em> \u2019\u00a0phrase in front of one\u2019s name.\u00a0 She did manage to insert a comment about her under- appreciation of \u201cdepartmental politics\u201d and that created a moment of hilarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Garage\/yard sales are the order of the day.\u00a0 It is 6:30, the sun is barely up, it is cold out, and the wind is still blowing. \u00a0About that wind \u2013 for about 3 weeks the sustained velocity has been above 25 mph, often in the low 30s, and gusts up to 50.\u00a0 Yesterday was the … Continue reading “SATURDAY — on the hunt, again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-83","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}