This afternoon, a handful of brilliant golden crocuses were blooming at the corner of the yard...annnnnd by tomorrow, they're going to be covered with 6 to 8 inches of snow. Isn't life grand.

In two months now or maybe one
The sun will be a different sun
And earth that stretches white as straw
With strong ice will crack and thaw

And run in ( Read more... )

We got my aunt's ashes in the mail yesterday. It's kind of bizarre to think that you can just be Priority Mailed like that ( Read more... )

How disappointing that the stick-in-the-ground political sign that I'd planned to swipe --- the one that indicated that we need to make a choice between living in a free republic or "socialist Marxist tyranny" --- got swiped by somebody else first. :/ I wonder whether it was somebody who was either really for or really against one or the other, or ( Read more... )

COLBERT 2012
COLBERT 2012
COLBERT 2012

Damn, it almost makes me wish I still lived in the Carolinal lands...

You know, I hadn't realized before how Martin Landau circa his Mission:Impossible days was a pretty damn fine dude. And watching him work his way out of a straitjacket? That's some quality time right there. Sad that there were never any episodes with both him and Leonard Nimoy in them ( Read more... )

A Happy New Year to all, and to all a good night~~~ :)

"Here's to the new year --- may she be a damn sight better than the old one."

"This was brought to you by the letter Gee, as in 'Jesus Christ, what the hell was that?!'" -- Lewis Black

*dead*

I'm trying not to take it personally that every place I'm going to be travelling next month got hit by the earthquake today and, in all likelihood, will get nailed by the hurricane at the end of the week. Man. Here's hoping Earth gets it all out of its system before then ( Read more... )

Today, for the first time ever, I took the side "panel" off the riding mower, and changed the oil. Completely changed it, not just checked it or added some or whatever. This is a truly momentous occasion...and between it and fixing my car door the other day when it wouldn't latch and stay closed, I feel my minor mechanical/general fix-it skills ( Read more... )

Have found myself wondering how much time should elapse before someone is moved from one category of reference for descriptive purposes to another. How long a period of silence before, during a conversation, someone stops being referred to as a friend, and becomes "someone I used to know"? Or first there's the more subtle change, from "I have a ( Read more... )