"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder

In Greek the present tense verb is continuous action.
It is raining.
Tomorrow we get thunderstorms.

My focus today was prepping for Thursday night's class. The consensus seems to be that last week, the first meeting, was a strong success, including the number who showed up. My response has been that a better gauge is how many return for the second week. We'll see.

I recently looked up the difference between gauge and gage. Turns out I'll almost never have a reason to use gage. Duels are so passe'.

Getting swag is cool.
Getting good swag is even better.
Best is getting good swag from your son's business.
Josh started up Hand Therapy Partners about 20 months ago and it's going very well. He's a CHT, a Certified Hand Therapist, a specialty that provides post-op and recovery therapy focused on the hand but includes everything from the shoulder down.

But wait! There's more!

Like many professions, CHT's are required to complete a certain amount of continuing ed classes each year to maintain their certification. The problem: there's a shortage of qualifying course.
So Josh started a separate effort that has created a series on online video courses that will meet the continuing ed requirement.
He and Aubri will be at a national conference for CHT's where they'll pitch those courses. Everyone who enrolls in a course gets one of these cool insulated bottles.
If you're the dad of the clever guy who produces the videos you can get one of these bottles without enrolling. As it turns out, you have to send your wife to AZ for about 10 days and live miserably as a bachelor for the duration, but having her bring home on of these is a pretty decent payoff.
Thanks, Josh! It will go to work with me tomorrow, filled with coffee. And it will sit on the table around which our staff meeting takes place, logo facing out.

I don't go anywhere without my Portuguese vocab flashcards, watch videos every day, and look for online articles about things like verb endings and common idioms.
I'm to the point where I can put together simple sentences about everyday activities, places, and things. I'm restricting myself to the most common class of verbs, those that end in ___ar, like falar, "to speak." And only in the present tense.
Eu quero falar em Portuguese com Joaquim. (I want to speak in Portuguese with Joaquim.)
This is strangely addictive, especially now that I've learned enough to build just basic sentences. I wish I knew someone who spoke Portuguese who I could work with several times a week. It's the fifth most spoken language in the world, but so far I haven't found anyone in my orbit who speaks it. There was a guy at church I met a few weeks ago who is the son of missionaries who served in Angola, but I haven't seen him since that one Sunday.