It snows!

Happy Birthday, divineserpent! I hope you have a great one!

Ok, we can stop hearing about Sarah Palin now.  The election's over, she lost.  Go back to Alaska.

My son is enjoying Aeon Flux.  Definitely a Scorpio, that one.

It is a fabulously windy overcast fall day here in the northeast U.S. The kind of wind that you can hear loudly from inside the house, especially when it whistles through the cracks and crevices of your 100-year-old home. (Actually, the whistling is just a memory I have from other houses. This old house is pretty tight!) The sky is white. I ( Read more... )

"It's as stupid and ineffectual as kicking your dog when you've had a bad day at the office.....But it happens a lot."

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I love New England: tomorrow it is going to be 59 degrees and sunny, and next Friday we expect show showers!

First use of snow shovel this season:  hauling our rotting jack-o-lantern from the porch to the compost bin.  When I tried to pick it up by hand I nearly got moldy decomposing pumpkin all over myself!  Squishy.

I want to play music from my computer through my car stereo speakers.   Can it be done???

I talked to my mom the other day, and mentioned our new president-elect. She kind of answered half-heartedly, so I said, "you voted for McCain, didn't you?" She did. I asked her why she didn't like Obama, and she said it was because he seemed to have different things to say about issues depending on who he was talking to. I had heard this from ( Read more... )