Our local haiku group is publishing an anthology. I had submitted some haiku and, evidently, some have been accepted. I got a call this morning from the person who's doing the layout about making the Esperanto characters. I wasn't able to help much. They evidently had selected a font which doesn't contain the Esperanto characters and she was exploring her options (which evidently doesn't include "selecting a font that does contain the Esperanto characters"). She wasn't happy with any of the options she was considering, but found no solace in what I could offer.
A parent in Charlie's class had been on the fence regarding the charter, but sent Alisa an email yesterday describing that he'd decided to support the charter. They exchanged a couple of emails (which I was copied on) and eventually I wrote just a snippet when he claimed class wasn't the issue. Here's what I wrote
I disagree -- I think it's almost entirely a class issue. As far as I can tell the charter is about rich, "important" people saying their time is too valuable to sit in town meeting listening to people from lower social orders. The charter proposes a form of government where money and influence, rather than time, will be the currency. Everyone has the same number of hours in a day and makes choices about how to spend them. Not everyone has money or influence. Which form of government has the greater potential for being truly representative?
He replied, but didn't address my point (or try to answer the question).
Buzz is coming to visit today to sample my latest batch of homebrew. I stopped by the store and picked up some tapas including olives, seed-bread, and a balsamic vinegarette dressing to dip it in. We spent a lot of time talking about his recent trip to Cuba and about putting together a proposal to do collaborative research and teaching with students in Cuba. Maybe even combining it with the cultural understanding stuff I worked on last year. There's not much I enjoy doing more than drinking a couple of pints with Buzz and talking about a new project.
This evening I'm starting a batch of Kilkenny Irish Red Ale. Lucy didn't care for the ESB -- too bitter. I'm pleased to find that making homebrew has become fairly routine. (Of course, literally as I'm typing this, the pot boiled over. As it turns out, that's routine too -- I've done it almost every time. :-)