Archive for category Personal
Baseball!!
This never gets old,
no matter how many times you see it!
Some Of My Other Furniture
I like building things. Here is a slideshow of some of my furniture pieces and other things around the house I’ve built over the years.
My Ancestors
Last week, I took a trip to Knoxville, Tennessee to visit the NIMBioS Center. I had a great time seeing old friends and talking to the postdocs and faculty there, but I also had an ulterior motive. It was to find where a number of my ancestors are buried. Read the rest of this entry »
My next chair
I love to build things. That probably comes with being a scientist: the challenge of making a bunch of things fit together. I’ve built much of the furniture we have in the house, plus a couple of canoes, clocks, and the like.
Because of my bad knees, a couple of years ago I built myself a Morris chair for my office.
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Bad Knees
I’ve always had bad knees. I was a baseball catcher in my youth. I had my knee torn up in high school football. So I always expected to get old and creaky as I aged. And I have.