I found Nextdoor.com and one subject was a gaming group that meets every Thursday evening at MMC&T Tanglewood.  I've been going to that and playing Five Crowns, Skip-Bo, Cancellation Hearts, etc.  It's mostly old people who meet there, but then, look who's talking ( Read more... )

We're coming up on the convention again!  I dug a mountain of auction merchandise out of the yellow room and put it on the DR table to be sorted & entered into the auction database.  Friday, Lois & I went to dinner at Famous Anthony's near her and then to see Paula Poundstone at the Jefferson Center downtown, formerly Jefferson High School.  She ( Read more... )

Shawn kept Kevin for a few days.  Monday (MLK day), I took him to the VA emergency room for his back pain and they prescribed physical therapy. Shawn handed him off Friday to Bear, who lives in Stewart, VA; about a 2-hour drive away.  Bear took him back to the emergency room for other problems and they gave him OTC medicine and sent him home.  ( Read more... )

My furnace is about 50 years old and it has been fixed and serviced lots of times, but when it broke down January 3rd, it was time for a new one.  I got estimates from about 7 different HVAC companies and got an appointment for January 22 to install an all-new furnace.  We kept the woodstove burning in the living room for almost 3 weeks solid!  It ( Read more... )

Does anybody still read LiveJournal?  Give me a shout if you do, please.  I mostly keep it as my diary since I gave up writing one years ago. 

I bought a new (used) car in September!  He's a 2014 Subaru Crosstrek hybrid, and I named him Trekkie.  He's smaller than Sue, my Outback, so I've been concerned about being able to fit all my stuff into him.  When I go camping, Sue is packed full!  I picked up a rooftop carrier at a yard sale to help.  This one is plastic/fabric, so is folds small ( Read more... )

Here's the Christmas letter from 2018.  Not a very detailed way to blog ( Read more... )

I've started to feel like blogging again recently!  When I looked at my LiveJournal last year, the entries were GONE and I thought they deleted my account for inactivity, but now they are back.  Hooray ( Read more... )

Here is the Christmas letter from 2017:

Wow, we are near the end of 2017 already! So here’s a recap of some of the year: I ran the scholarship auction again this year at Mysticon. My niece Rebecca came to the convention with her family, Amitai and Jonah, and I put her to work at the last minute tracking auction sales on the computer.

Grace was in ( Read more... )

Well, I retired last year and took a bunch of trips to visit friends and family; but this year I hardly took any!  We held our annual science fiction convention, Mysticon, in February and I ran the scholarship auction again this year.  We raised over $4,000 for the scholarship winner!  It helped having George R. R. Martin there as Guest of Honor - ( Read more... )