I've set up a new web site for my art.

http://www.bxiie.com

This is a link to a set on SoundCloud. The set is comprised of songs that I like from the time that XenophoN stopped playing until a year or so ago. The set title refers to the long hiatus that I took from playing after Adam Watson left Connecticut in 1995 until he dropped a copy of Logic (and other assorted goodies) on me out of the blue in 2007. ( Read more... )

Last night I noticed that one of my FEMA deployment bags was missing from my home office; I had last seen it Saturday when I used the GPSr from the bag. This morning I got to my office in Hanover and there was a message from a hunter who found my bag in Claremont while hunting yesterday ( Read more... )

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I'm back from four days at FEMA summer camp; a mobilization exercise for my US&R team (MA-TF1). Last Monday night between eight and eight we processed about 350 patients (role players) with the help of a National Guard CERFP team and a DMAT. Not exactly like real life; by the time a FEMA US&R team gets deployed, local public safety assets will have ( Read more... )

We always have an Easter-egg hunt for the kids.  We take plastic eggs and fill them with candies and change, then hide them around the yard.  The kids go find them and everyone has a lovely time ( Read more... )

Alduin gets his first smackdown at the Throat of the World.  I think it's going to be the real thing, that he's going to be dead-dead, but no; once I've subdued him he tells me that I can't actually kill him there for some supernatural reason and then he gets up and goes flapping off towards points unknown.
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My usual white cloud seems to be in abeyance.  Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen some serious calls.

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When I bought my car in November, it came with a three-month trial subscription to Sirius.  I don't usually listen to music when I drive; I usually have the radio off, in fact.  But I got used to having Sirius and in fact used the radio far more than I had for years.

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Reading Rescue gave me a new portable last night; cute li'l thing.

It's a Vertex VX...  Uh... 420.

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