I’m sitting here in my jim-jams and it’s a couple of degrees below freezing. And why am I not grumbling? Well, two reasons, really. First, yesterday Amazon delivered two electric throws. I am currently bundled up in one of them while Don and the cats...

  Excuse me while I snort coffee through my nose. I’ve been reading a book about the Chicago World’s Fair and enjoying it immensely. I finally got around to dinking around online, only to discover that the official World’s Fair website is Flash-only...

Winter, apparently, has landed with a thud. The other day we realized that we simply are not getting out of here anytime soon. And it’s ok. Kerry loaned us a vast tarp and we hooked it over the top of Harvey. There. It’s a few degrees warmer, and we...

This morning I woke up semi gung-ho and did a bunch of articles for pay. After that I took a deep breath and started another round of insurance-company chasing. Our phone line was acting up yesterday with too much traffic on the connection, so I had a...

All the glute-nursing worked yesterday and while I’m not quite right I noted that a motorcycle ride would be very nice. And so we looped round into town and took a road we never had before, Trinity Dam Boulevard, which as the name suggests skirts the...