We're already up to the fifth day of Christmas-


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Five days remain of this year, which began, more or less, with an insurrection and will end, more or less, with some trepidation. Every day now seems to bring word of somebody we know, or at least somebody they know, being laid up with COVID- and that's even before the latest variant has really taken hold here. Even more scary, it's kids- daughters ( Read more... )

Nobody came for Christmas here today- neither by the door nor the chimney. Nobody left, either,  unless you count one walk with the dog and her multiple backyard visits. When Santa made his annual firetruck run around our block yesterday, Pepper stood on the back of the sofa and growled at him. By nightfall, though, she was asleep on that bed, as ( Read more... )

Nothing's being wrapped in the paper sense. Timing is weird this year because of the Big Day falling on a Saturday, so yesterday was our last day with everyone in the office, but the usual office luncheon won't be until next week. A couple of people dropped off the obligatory bottles of booze, not having gotten the memo that we're not drinking ( Read more... )

I never got to my entertainment report following my assorted rants of the past couple of days. One of the more entertaining things I didn't watch was the Bills breaking a two-game slide and beating an eminently beatable Carolina team.  The entertaining part didn't show up online until yesterday, though:

Right before the game started, the Panthers' ( Read more... )

I don't know how we managed to live without online drama in those halcyon pre-social media days.  When you got into a dispute with someone, you were generally there when it happened, and you knew who you were in and out with and why.  These little 0s and 1s have expanded our universes, but not only at a cost of immense time-wasting. It's become ( Read more... )

I'm almost through my third month of using the Everything's Up To Date version of Office products, including Word, Excel and Outlook. Eleanor's finishing up her first month, and she's made her own choices about some options (like not using the cloud for file storage or the Outlook calendar option). We both are having slow adjustments to it all, ( Read more... )

I figured I may as well start a post while I’m waiting in a parking lot again. Our vet has gone back to pets-only-in-the-building protocol at least on Saturdays, so Jack is in there getting a booster. I just finished a week with some potential big new stuff and the long anticipated round of axe throwing.

Sure, there are the jokes. Sure, there are ( Read more... )

We've been spending a lot of time lately treating our oldest cat's latest flareup of a herpes condition that gets into her eyes and points south from time to time.  The last round was back in the spring, and we still had the eyedrops for it in the fridge. They were technically out of date by a few weeks but the vet said they would be okay.

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Wow, getting close to posting every day again.  As I probably will when we get closer to month end, when the traditional Year In Review series arrives. Quite a bit to choose from this year, but some are already pretty obvious, while one or two are still yet to be completely written.

As for today's title, it was bound to happen. With the gale force ( Read more... )