The Professor and I walked to a meeting this morning to hear Thomas F Schaller talk about the upcoming US election. We were almost there and were concentrating on finding the house number when snow fell from the roof barely missing the Professor. I stopped him just before he walked under it. At least that is how I remember it.
The sidewalk was actually closed off, but someone had failed to put the tape and orange cone back. We were so busy looking for building numbers that we were not aware of what was going on around us. I would guess that there was enough snow to knock us over perhaps causing some injury. Our meeting was on the 5th floor of the building opposite the one with the roof being cleared of snow. That should explain the photographs. We are very grateful that neither of us was hit. The man on the ground quickly moved the cone back where it should have been.
We enjoyed the morning and had lunch with Markku and Jonathan who attended the lecture also. Someone new in the office saw Jo nathan's name written with a space between two key letters. For quite awhile Markku went around calling him "Joe Nathan" like the new member of the staff.
I don't think I learned a whole lot that was new. Schaller predicts that Obama will win against Romney in November. Needless to say, he predicts that Romney will get the Republican nomination.
Thomas Schaller
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