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<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/tt><\/h1>\n This is a big day, a traveling day. This morning my flotsam and jetsam were strewn around me. <\/span>Garment bag, duffle, briefcase. <\/span>Packing for three weeks is an undertaking of no small order. I had my little list. Some of it I accomplished. I triaged the bills that will come due before I return, mailed the birthday gift to my father for early August, wrote checks to the future ex, did laundry, returned the covered dish set I borrowed to take to the pot luck last Thursday. Cleaned my hovel, golfed with my son and his pals at noon. I did not finish a story about my Uncle's memorial, nor do anything about the fuel gauge that doesn't work on the truck. I am now in the process of figuring out what parts of the<\/span><\/tt>lap-top I will take to Boston so I will not be out of touch.<\/span><\/tt>I am back from golfing and up from the dip in the pool that soothed my aching joints. We were trapped by lightning in a shelter on the course in Fairfax County. It was good to share the time with the boys. There is a Weezer concert tonight and they are all going. I actually know a couple Weezer songs....thanks to them. \u00a0<\/span><\/tt>I should hit the web-site at Harvard and at least do the first day's reading on the plane. Or worry about it tomorrow. I have selected the coat and tie I must take for the first and last days. In between it is casual, shorts and polo shirt. I must take a minimalist approach to this. Do I take the disc-man and a few precious CD's? Who will I be rooming with? The faithful Zippo lighter will not make the journey on one tank of fuel. I must leave it behind.<\/span><\/tt>Do I have enough supplies for the room? I have worried about sending a boy off to college and now I doing the same for myself. Think minimalist, Vic.<\/span><\/tt>It has been twenty-seven years since I lived in Boston. I wonder if anything has changed?<\/span><\/tt>Maybe I'll find out.....Three weeks away. Put life here in the capital on hold. Then back here for a week and then take my older boy back to Ann Arbor. Maybe get a few days Up North and then the summer is over. <\/span>Vic Socotra, Harvard man. <\/span>Has sort of a ring to it, don't you think?<\/p>\n <\/span><\/tt><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (let\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds get) Get Ready for School This is a big day, a traveling day. This morning my flotsam and jetsam were strewn around me. Garment bag, duffle, briefcase. Packing for three weeks is an undertaking of no small order. I had my little list. Some of it I accomplished. I triaged the bills that will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29008,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28987\/revisions\/29008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}