New Shoes in the Rain

Good Monday morning, folks, hope you had a great weekend! I have to say that we certainly did, although there were a few things leading into the weekend that were a little, well, different. First, the good.  We celebrated the tenth birthday of our younger grandson this weekend with a sleepover, his first trip to White Castle and then a family dinner at a local hibachi restaurant.  He and his immediate family (my son and his wife, plus his two sisters) went to Cincinnati for a Reds game. This was only our second dining-out experience since restrictions began to be lifted, the first being the night of our son's official law school graduation a couple of weeks before.  The place we went was taking all of the right precautions, and all diners were required to wear masks upon entry. The chef who prepared our dinner mentioned that he came to this country (and to Lexington) in 1998 and formerly cooked at another now departed hibachi restaurant.  He was a fun and pleasant fellow and very a

Well, it's Monday, friends, so I hope that you had a good weekend. We did around here.  Friday we watched our son go through commencement exercises to commemorate his graduation from law school in the fall of 2019.  The ceremony ordinarily would have been the following spring, but, of course, was delayed by the pandemic to this spring.  He's already been practicing as an attorney for over a year, having passed the bar in March 2020, but it was still a meaningful occasion. And yesterday we celebrated my wife and daughter-in-law with a nice brunch with our son and his family.  Now that we're seeing them regularly it's hard to believe how seldom we did this from March 2020 through April of this year. Now, on to today's topic du jour.... I have a little bit of biographical information in my profile for this blog, but I'd guess that a good many of you who visit this site regularly don't know much about me.  So here are a few factoids that may be of some interest.