Well, this weekend was fun. The big 2021 ice storm started doing it’s thing around here on Friday morning, icing up the roads, the trees, the cars, the everything. None of us left the house Friday or Saturday, because the driveway was an ice rink, and we’re still on ‘Rona time anyway. We watched movies, […]

It’s Friday. About damned time. I’ll be honest, it’s been a heavy week. Accomplished quite a bit, and maybe drank a little too much, but all with an unmistakable air of frustration and bleh. Finally got the lawn guys mostly sorted, and my property is mostly clear of crap before the snowstorm. That effort was […]

H/T to friend Amber for this one Apart from the schizophrenic southern weather, this weekend wasn’t bad. Not saying it was particularly atypical; after all, our world is one where there isn’t a hell of a lot of novelty right now. I watched a couple of movies, finished a book and started another, made a […]

This week’s been a strange one. The weather’s been bizarre; swinging from three inches of snow to start the week to hitting damned near 70° yesterday afternoon (and making for a wonderful day to *finally* get out for a brisk three mile hike). It’s raining this morning, which I should have expected, since after some […]

By the time you’re reading this, there should be a small army of leaf blowers scraping autumn off of my property. I also have a couple of phone calls Friday morning, so that should make the work day interesting. It’s been, as they say, a week. I’ve been a little on edge emotionally, and again, […]

Woke up early this morning to see a light dusting of snow on the cars in the driveway. It’s pretty and all, but I fully expect it to be gone by noon. When it goes, I hope it takes the moisture with it, because if all goes well, tomorrow I’ve got the lawn/landscaping company coming […]

So, it’s Monday again… The weekend, as predicted and hoped for, was largely uneventful. A little shopping, some reading, some decent shepherd’s pie that I’ll be eating the rest of the week, lots of laundry, a bit of television, a bit of reading, and a few Pokemon Go raids from my couch thanks to friends […]

After writing a whole bunch of paragraphs about how I’m seriously struggling with what I suspect is the second occurrence of the

Given current circumstances, as mentioned previously, Marscon didn’t happen as scheduled in person in Williamsburg this year, but a bunch of regulars stepped up to help create a virtual experience for those of us missing our chosen family of misfits. In the form of a bunch of online meetups, streaming video, and all the other […]

So, given the last ten days or so in Washington, we’re in all kinds of uncharted territory. While the former civics/history teacher in me is fascinated, the concerned citizen in me is, well, concerned, and not in a Susan Collins way. While I am absolutely in favor of impeachment here, because there have to be […]