the shrewdness of apes

it was a long weekend of moving (thank you Marc, Jim, Dan), and now there's a short week of work before a medium length vacation. but before t.s.o.a. closes up shop for a week or so, we will do, as the French might say, "juste assez pour passer". to that end, please welcome the return of the dead letter office series, brought on by the discovery of a notebook that seemingly belonged to a college acquaintance. i don't know how i came into possession of such a thing, but i did and it's full of random class notes, half-formed thoughts and other detritus such as this:

Life
Hanglide
Mary
Have kids
See Europe
Manage people
Race a car
Fly a Plane

die 30 days
See America
Write something
Record something
Hang glide

hmmmm, it's been about 10 years. perhaps i should track him down and see how many of the things on his list have been accomplished.