Well, after a warmer week, looks like Winter is not quite done with us just yet. Started out as a sleety mist midday, then shifted into proper snow as it got cooler. Did not quite stick to wet surfaces, but clung to foliage and such as temps fell into sunset. Rather pretty if just a nice dusting.


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As folks might be aware, I live in a Hudson Valley High Ranch, sort of a regional kind of Split Level ranch. Short version, no basement, and the lower level is on the concrete slab and dug into the hillside that saved us from flooding during recent storms, including Sandy. But that means the lower level, with forced air heating, is generally cool ( Read more... )

So this is the sort of thing Art Guys do to unwind. This week was a little calmer than usual, but it was also COLD. The Studio is downstairs, and on the SLAB, tends to be coolish in winter, and was in the 20s outside today. So I had my polar fleece and felt the need for a little Art Snark. So a little dance with Photo Booth and Photoshop... and ( Read more... )

Well, sometimes I have issues with browser tech. Had hope for a moment there, but "autosaved draft" was blank, my already well-formed post was eaten by an inadvertent brush of the "magic" trackpad that the browser interpreted as a "Back" command. PFFFFT. Frak.

So therefore now for something completely different, unless it isn't.

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I commented at at Sun Dance, "I may not always act my age, but I might need to start respecting it."

After the current Promotion exam cycle, kickboxing on Wednesday, and Classical Karate this morning... my body is reminding me of that remark. My biggest complaint of course is that, since the ankle, I am a bit asymmetrical, and my right knee seems ( Read more... )

 Well, been back from Sun Dance about a week, and the voice is nearly back, still a bit fuzzy. But burned in a worth cause.

This is going to be a bunch of random stuff, mostly my own mental catching up, since Dreamwidth and LJ are becoming largely forgotten in the Quick and Dirty age of Facebook, IM, text messaging and Tumblr. So I feel I am largely ( Read more... )

Didn't fall off the map, tho' some days feeling like I've been embedded IN it. Sun Dance begins on Saturday, for all the week to follow... In between, been working and trying to get Padawan Two ready for Buffalo State. He's headed up middle of August. And seriously folks, money is just POURING out of this house. We went on a family plan on the cell ( Read more... )