Chris Riedel

Truth be told the only difficult thing emotionally is that this reminds me of mom's anguished passing. They shared the same unusual spelling of their first name, Kathryn, & it has been hard to have to keep reading that on morbid forms again.
Wish me luck.

But if I don't get legal status, I can't get into her condo to find out if she has a will (which I've explained to many realtors who somehow discovered our tenuous connection).
We may not have been close, but she was family. I didn't want her in a paupers grave. I'd like to know her last wishes.

I am extra thankful now that my mom worked out everything so I didn't have to go through any probate when she passed last year. I am trying to think of this as an historian - such cases are how interesting primary sources are produced - though I could really use the time to be working on class prep.

So there's another court date this week, & I intend to be there. Can't seem to get any info from the lawyers beyond the date & time. But the mortician is a mensch, opening early so I can collect her remains to bring to the courthouse in time. That is perhaps a bit dramatic but hopefully persuasive.

Found after a wellness check, no registered will, a huge hassle just finding out her sister passed the year before & getting in touch with her condo association. Hired a law firm & an Illinois registered address. Then at the first court date in July the judge wasn't convinced of my relationship.

My cousin once removed died the June. I hardly knew her, hadn't seen her in 25 years, only found out when probate researchers tracked me down (looking for a %). Turns out my septuagenarian aunt & I are her only living relatives, giving me just days to claim her remains 200 miles away in Chicago.

The St. Luke Evangelist portrait from the St. Chad Gospels

Another happy manuscript discovery: all the files from the 2010 digitization of the St. Chad Gospels by the University of Oklahoma/Lichfield Cathedral project have been CC licensed & made available for batch download at lichfield.ou.edu/cc-download!

#medievalsky #paleography #insularart

Yes, you have exactly encapsulated the sentiment I disagree with.

It's interesting how most people seem to think the lost golden age they want to recapture was their own childhood era - you know, the point in time when most people are sheltered and have no clue what's really going on in the world.

Just so!

I'm so sick of people criticizing media for being "unoriginal." Originality is not the be all and end all of quality media - in fact original stuff is just as likely to be absolute garbage as derivative junk.
The problem is not a lack of new ideas, it's a lack of good craftsmanship.

St Paul is here to write letters and kick ass. And he has just written his last letter.

Musée de Cluny, Cl.1505, c. 1030, Echternach

That would explain why of the core four only Augustine seems to be listed with an appelation.

They don't all get special appelations now, do they?
And it seems Bede has already gotten Doctor Anglorum, though I've never heard that before.

I think this is my third time going over the wars of the diadochi in as many months and I still can't keep them straight.

Of course the abuse is nowhere near that ratio. It doesn't matter. That's the values at play.

The difference, fundamentally, with the two political sides in this country, is that left would rather ten abuse the system than that one deserving go without, while the right would rather see ten deserving go without than one abuse it.

Pretty much. That and I like a captive audience

I miss old Twitter.

Fortunately I had mostly moved on to a pc by that point!

But then I'm still using a ten year old pc that crashes for no reason on the regular. It's mostly a solid state hard save for my dropbox account at this point, I'm mostly on mobile devices (especially my reMarkable) now.

I tried going Mac, it was worse than PC for me, so I went back. Not that PCs are great, mind you, but my Mac bricked itself by autoupdating to a software it couldn't handle (and that's according to the official "genius" I brought it to).

I feel exactly the same and felt the overwhelming desire to share my pain with the world.

It is tee totaling, like in "with a capital T"

I could have made up false etymologies right alongside Isidore

Please tell me I'm not the only person who, never having read the phrase, thought it was "tea total" and indicated you were drinking tea instead 🤦‍♂️

It's actually done wonders here in Michigan but we were purple leaning blue but jerrymandered red, so of course I like it.

Every so often, but I don't live near a beach. I more prefer to read a good book on the beach

But I'm also really interested in his version of Socrates' Apology, since I assign Plato's version in my survey.
Plus On Hunting with Dogs sounds fun. Probably means it isn't, sadly, that's usually the way.

But NY had a plebiscite amendment to do citizen redistricting right? Isn't that part of why we lost the House? Basically either everyone needs to do fair redistricting or no one should.