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Who is Rochester's Batman? And what is he doing here?


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It seems semi-official now: LiveJournal is no longer accepting cross-postings from anybody- including Dreamwidth, which is where all of my content has come from for most of the past several years. You can read an overly technical explanation of why by clicking hereSo if you've kept up with my merry misadventures through the link to the old ( Read more... )

The final two of the NFL's four second-round playoff games take place beginning this afternoon. Yesterday's openers produced upsets of the two teams seeded first in their conferences, and, since last year, the only teams given a "bye" from playing in the opening round.  Up first today is Tampa-LA, where the hated Tom Brady tries to move on to the ( Read more... )

Jack is confirmed as being free of tiny livestock. I got the call from our vet on Wednesday that his sample had tested negative. THAT news came after we'd locked him up over the weekend to get a sample, he finally provided one, but then we wondered if it would still be viable by the time we got it to our vet some 48 hours later. Between the snow, ( Read more... )

THIS snow, we got, precisely on schedule and in pretty much the predicted amount:


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Cats' eyes and dogs' crates, to be precise.

A busy workweek is winding down, with more than its share of DEATH paying visits. Beyond Bob Saget and Ronnie Spector passing in the celebrity world, nobody we know has recently shuffled off this mortal coil, but that hasn't kept past grim reapings from repeating. I had two clients pass away in November, ( Read more... )

Don't worry. They're decent stories, maybe even funny.

* Riding Outside Cars With Dogs.

By Saturday, all the Snowmageddon from earlier in the week had melted, and the whole day Saturday was sunny and nice.  Unfortunately, Sunday is our scheduled morning for walking Pepper with assorted frens.

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Also, Busy Work Week, Overblown Prediction of a Snowstorm Week, and Ray Being Generally Stupid Week!

Let's start with the Recent Unpleasantness, which marked its first Klan-iversary on Thursday January 6th. Until a year ago, that date on the calendar had two relatively unimportant tabs on it. One, it was my father's birthday, so yes, this year he ( Read more... )

That's us: the Entertainment, Sports and Death Network!

Almost all of our entertainment came from within these walls. Only once all year did we sit in a movie theater (for Venom II); I attended a one-night series of short plays by a local group at a very small venue (that passed on my own submission for a live January production but might still ( Read more... )