Yes, yes, yes. It's been many days since Friday the Thirteenth fell on a Monday this month. I've been busy, but that's all, just busy. All is otherwise well. Roasting coffee. Chores. Dinner guests. Work. Sleep. And the clock, it keeps ticking. So, thank you for your patience. Your reward is a winterized Lexi photo: Not much else to report. Be well.
Continue reading...We find ourselves a day into Winter, thus Beginnings. We've had mornings in the teens (Fahrenheit) fairly often for the last couple of weeks, so sliding formally into Winter seems the merest formality. More fun, we had guests up from Atlanta, and, well, it's properly cold here, for them. But they're driving further north, more power to them. It was a joy to have some time with Jen and Chris, though. And Lexi got lots of attention from them, too. Linda was over for supper, too. We enjoyed a properly garlic-y chicken supper, a holiday film from Mel Brooks, and…
Continue reading...After shopping and cleaning house today, we had wonderful home-made pizza AND watched Chicken Run. Now, instead of being able to concentrate on the world-shaking revelations that were to appear in this space, all I can do is type sentences that run on and on without any appearance of termination in sight, if indeed such sentences as typed could be said to have visual acuity of any sort at all. Nearly every damn political story I read. Disturbing. Politest word I can think of in the circumstances. I've got nothing else to say on the subject at this time. Warren.
Continue reading...The women and men who put themselves in harm's way on our behalf get precious little of the respect and care that we should give them each day. Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. Some things change slowly, some so fast one hardly notices the thing itself as the blur as it goes by. A person I work with is moving on, after a lunatic number of years (by today's standards), and I'm going to miss them a lot. No blur here, but a lot of individual moments that together are a big part of the most…
Continue reading...Our friend Michael Lindsay, husband to Linda Rose Payne, father to Dylan and Kiera, died on August 31, 2019. He was a talented voice actor, and a seriously funny and fun dude, even when in massive pain, which he was, a lot. I'm gonna miss him. Yes, again. With some lovely weather, visits with usually distant family members, and some moderately successful fishing. We ended up with 6 or 7 bass between us, all weighed less than two pounds, all released back into the lake after getting weighed and measured. Eleven hours on the drive up (traffic problems), ten hours…
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