We were getting hints that something was wrong as far back as July of 2007. Construction and manufacturing order slowdowns. Orders cut short or cancelled altogether. The company credit line suddenly got tight ( Read more... )

Mostly for your non-meddling policies and procedures,your lack of a need to change my privacy settings ever other week, and your general lackidasical nature when it comes to pestering me about friends, options, or giving away information.

I might just post on you again one of these days.

Or not.

I just don't know.

Poop. Monkeys. Fans.

Dogs. Cats. Living together.

Mass Hysteria.

Sorta.

I'll update y'all in good time.

...and it is quite pretty to watch.  It does not even stress me, for it is blowing sideways.  Eastward. Not a flake is touching the ground.

I suppose it must suck to be east of here. Like repowers and cholma.

BWAHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHA.

suxxors to be you, I do believe.

I've been reworking the office a bit.  Just discovered that computer A is getting senile, Computer B is hopelessly obsolete and Computer C is a lightning-struck piece of trash.

Looks like I am back where I started.

Time to go shopping.

On the Sunday after, The storms cleared, and the sun once again warmed the landscape ( Read more... )

Sleet and snow marked the day of the funeral.  I pulled up to the gloomy, wet exterior of the United Church of Christ and went inside ( Read more... )

Things were rough the next few days; the oncoming storm system effectivly trapped the Mrs. and myself in Sheboygan, whereas I much rather would  have fled the four hours home to hide amidst my books, my comforts, and my memories until such time as the funeral permitted.  Not to be ( Read more... )

The weekend storms gasped their last by the middle of Monday, leaving a scant few hours of daylight to clear the sidewalks and byways of the snowy aftermath of winter's next-to-final storm season ( Read more... )

Thunderstorm last night.  Followed by snow.  I didn't get out of the valley like I was supposed to, and now I'm stuck here until perhaps Monday.

Might as well break out the horse liniment, I am in for a hell of a lot of shoveling.