tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-801060132342953320.post1166357925283309525..comments2024-02-28T18:32:11.329-05:00Comments on Life at Chez Smiffy: What I did on my summer vacationMistihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04508340234759707408noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-801060132342953320.post-457871067467044012010-08-30T03:10:39.812-04:002010-08-30T03:10:39.812-04:00I think he taught something about literature. Let...I think he taught something about literature. Let me Google up his obituary. Ah, here it is: <br />http://www.antonnews.com/farmingdaleobserver/obits/9461-obituary-julian-mates.html<br /><br />Evidently he taught and did a lot of different things. The obituary has several paragraphs about it -- too long to quote here. But it seems likely that you interacted with him in some way, even if only to hear the school song sung, which he helped to compose.Valerienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-801060132342953320.post-41905830956535528792010-07-28T07:50:16.098-04:002010-07-28T07:50:16.098-04:00Hi, Valerie,
I don't remember meeting Profes...Hi, Valerie, <br /><br />I don't remember meeting Professor Mates. What did he teach? I am so sorry to hear that your Uncle died.Mistihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04508340234759707408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-801060132342953320.post-34823582099020358582010-07-24T23:32:33.926-04:002010-07-24T23:32:33.926-04:00Sounds like an amazing trip!!
I got a GPS a year ...Sounds like an amazing trip!!<br /><br />I got a GPS a year or two ago. It definitely takes some getting used to. How annoying that yours was so insistent on taking you to Canada. :( I haven't tried using mine to find lodging and bathrooms, but this does seem like a really worthwhile feature. My big GPS bugaboo was when I was in Boston and I'd drive through a tunnel and the GPS would totally lose track of where I was. Then it would stop giving me directions for where to go, but I would not realize it and would do whatever was still left on the screen from when I entered the tunnel. That would take me someplace totally wrong, and we would end up looping through all kinds of unintended places.<br /><br />I do like my GPS for everyday bopping around Ann Arbor. If I'm not sure which path to a place is faster, I'll use the GPS to find out. Sometimes there are trips where I've been wondering for years which route is faster, so it's nice to have an arbiter for that. Or if I need to take a kid on a playdate to an unfamiliar place, I can use the GPS to find a super-fast route instead of looking at a map.<br /><br />This is a very long shot, but... At CW Post, did you ever run across a professor / department head named Julian Mates? He was my uncle. He died last week.<br /><br />Anyway, it sounds like an *amazing* trip!! I'm glad you could go!Valerienoreply@blogger.com