One down, 51 to go. A good week for exercise - I managed five days of workouts in the last seven. Today was good: 60/40/22/41(5200/635). Work was productive and fun, and I got caught up on some technical reading. Oh, yeah. Snow. Predicted: 2-4 over Friday/Saturday. Actual: a little under 3/4". Ah, well. * * * DoD announced no new casualties in the last week. Ciao!
Continue reading...Happy New Year. Observe that I am expressing a hope, rather than a prediction. The good thing about expecting a depressingly awful sequel to last year's trash fire is that, while it CAN be worse than I imagine, it MIGHT also be better than I expect. Pleasant surprises may ensue. Things that continue to be true: That's enough of a list for me. The more I take on, the less I may accomplish. So, today was good. And this wasn't on that list, but it's a (re-)start: 6/11/4270(35m/604c). The BEST list I saw today is this one: Elizabeth (@twoscooters) Sampat's…
Continue reading...I hope y'all had a Merry Christmas, at least those of you that recognize the holiday. For the rest, I hope you enjoyed your weekend. We had a quiet holiday at home. I baked a ham and we added mashed red potatoes and broccoli to the plates. Lexi got the best under-the-tree gift this year - a tin of dog treats from her Auntie Tae! Marcia and I had done our gift exchange earlier, and mostly in support of the Annapolis Shakespeare Company. * * * DoD announced no new casualties in the last 8 days. Glad of that, too.
Continue reading...'Twas the week before Christmas, And all through the town,The wind was a'blowin', And power was down. Well, not for us, but lots of folks lost power around here today. Yesterday around noon, we finally emerged from an early cold blast that had us in the teens and twenties since Wednesday. This morning, it reached 62 degrees. Now it's back down to freezing. All that atmospheric energy had to go somewhere, and wind was no surprise. We had perhaps a tenth of an inch of ice on Saturday morning: Lexi seriously hates walking about on ice-crusted grass. She acts as…
Continue reading...G'day. What a lovely day. Well, not temperature-wise, as it was 24F when I got up and walked the dog this morning, and had barely crept up to the freezing point by noon. But, still a nice day. We took Linda and Mike to see the matinee showing of It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, staged by the Annapolis Shakespeare Company. It's running through Christmas Eve, so you have plenty of time to go see it yourself! This is the second year we've enjoyed this production. While some might say it's not the cheeriest of stories, it is…
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