This week was the first time I took advantage of Regal Cinema's Mystery Movie Monday, which lets you see a not-yet-released movie for $5. The catch? You don't know what the movie is until it starts. Nathan invited me to join his family, and though the guy at the counter wasn't sure it would work, my Regal Unlimited membership did entitle me to a ( Read more... )

Have you ever woken up from a dream in which you were shouting something, and wondered if you were actually saying it out loud? Thanks to the Sleep Cycle app, I know I was making noise, even if it wasn’t all that intelligible.

I’m not sure why I was trapped in the dream, but I was shouting “Jeff!” over and over, and trying to throw silverware in ( Read more... )

Early last month I posted "Just thirty shopping days until my birthday! Please get yourself (not me) something nice for the occasion!" on my personal profile.
One friend chose the best of both worlds, and ordered themselves a t-shirt from my Threadless shop! They got a sweet new shirt, and I got a little commission. Thanks, friend ( Read more... )

I’m pretty sure the first time I met Roger was when he stayed at my house for a weekend when visiting his daughter, a friend of mine in town whose studio apartment didn’t lend itself to guests.

He was a friendly houseguest and enjoyed hanging out with Penny, still an only dog at the time, if I recall correctly.

I’ve seen Roger several times since, ( Read more... )

"Thanks, I did! Y'know, kidney cancer ( Read more... )

There's been a lot of "Nothing lasts on that corner!" since I published an article about Viva Taqueria moving across the street in Downtown Ithaca yesterday morning.

Nonsense.

Madeline's did quite well there for most of its over twenty years, surviving despite construction above them, the excruciating rebuild of the Commons, the construction of ( Read more... )

I was driving to a friend's house south of town to give her doggos a midday visit since she was going to be out for a very long day, and decided I'd take advantage of the Dunkin' offer of 100 bonus points for Monday ordering ahead, and one of their other current offers, at the Elmira Road Dunkin' on my way there ( Read more... )

Judy and seity1 and I went to New Orleans the spring after Katrina for Jazz Fest, and that's coming up on 17 years ago, as bizarre as that is to imagine. Rachel and I have been talking about taking a vacation somewhere warm during her spring break, and it's awfully tempting to try to get to New Orleans once again. A couple of weeks after the madness of ( Read more... )

I haven't looked outside yet to see how snowy it is in my neighborhood, but I've been awake for almost two hours working on local school updates. It's all two-hour delays for the districts in Tompkins County, with a few closings to our south. The storm has mostly passed east of here, so roads should be in pretty good shape before long ( Read more... )

At the end of my first visit yesterday morning to a new physical therapy office, someone in a mask came out of the back with another patient and excitedly said hi to me. I have no idea who she was!

I’ve always been a little faceblind, not always able to connect the face of someone I know with their identity, but it’s sure been exacerbated the last ( Read more... )