My travel schedule for the month of December has managed to have me working at the wrong end of the I-95 corridor for every single one of the various office-sponsored holiday events. This, as you might surmise, is not a problem for me. ___________________ On a completely unrelated note, living in the future is cool. […]

Tomorrow, the passed-in-February restaurant smoking “ban” goes into effect across Virginia. The new law prohibits smoking in public restaurants, unless separate, and separately ventilated facilities are available for smoking and non-smoking areas. Exceptions are made for outdoor patio areas (where smoking would not be restricted) and “private clubs”. violations are subject to a nominal fine […]

Today is both Caturday and International Talk Like A Pirate Day. I can’t possibly not comment on this. So, to be efficient about it:

I haven’t played this in a while; I think it’s time. Here are a sampling of the search terms that have brought people to this humble web site over the past couple of weeks, presented without comment, because I don’t feel like coming up with jokes (and most of them are innocuous examples of how […]

Something that’s left me a little curious and confused for more than a little while now is the growing number of “in memory of [some dead person]” decals affixed to the back windows of people’s cars. I see them more and more in the area in which I live, and while I wouldn’ want to […]

What does it mean to be “grown up”, really? I’ve written a bit about this before, but it’s one of those ideas that seems to wind it’s way through my mind, and, apparently, the minds of many of my so-called peers a lot lately. Other people out there in the world seem to have definite […]

Let’s just hope that the developments reported on in the previous post don’t come to this:

Singing Kitties:

I’ll be away for a few days; trying to unplug at least a little bit. Sorry, my ones of readers, but you’ll just have to live with it.

Funny? Definitely.