Clerkmanifesto is going context free for 100 days!
While I retire from 31 years at the Roseville Library, sell nearly everything I own, fly with my darling wife to Japan for 40 days, and then move together to France to start to build a life there, I present a less explained clerkmanifesto, a clerkmanifesto of snapshots and time travel. Below you may see old posts without introduction from my 4,750 post collection. You may see random photos, brand new or years old. I may write a passage about Japan as if of course you know I'm in Japan, I may make a simple observation or joke, but whatever it is, I won't be explaining it. You'll have to take it as it comes.
For more context you are welcome to read this longer introduction.
And if this is all too confusing I welcome you to investigate our thousands of fully explained historic posts from the past 12 years, though I'll be the first to admit, hours later, you may still come away a little confused.
Here, however it works, is what clerkmanifesto has for you today:
I'm calling it at eighty-one!
As written above eighty times previously, I wanted to pre stock clerkmanifesto so it would run normally with newish content of some kind while my lovely wife and I prepared to leave Minnesota forever, travelled for 40 days in Japan, and landed and settled a bit in our small beach apartment in France. I randomly chose 100 days for this project, but I think 81 ought to do it. If I have managed to add contemporaneous bits from our travels into these pre prepared posts, then I have also likely managed to write posts beyond this date that don't need special introduction or explanation. And if I added in nothing, I think I can probably manage to get things going again since tomorrow will have seen us in France for almost a week.
But the truth is that any regular reader would know more than this August 28 version of me.
I'm not sure the preamble and structure I used here was entirely necessary as it was an extremely rare thing that I left an unexplained, dashed off post in here, but maybe the license of being able to do so helped me get so much done ahead of time. And I'm sure the sheer volume of what I've come up with in the last few weeks has caused some of the revision and polish to run for cover, so hopefully my system offered some explanation for that.
But however all that went, we're going back to standard clerkmanifesto rules tomorrow, whatever they are.
I'll see you on the other side.
Feldenstein Calypso, August 28, 2025
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