Just too darn long since I blogged.  So sorry ( Read more... )

I was home early this week for my grandfather's funeral.  Of course, I did not enjoy the reason for my visit home, but I had a good time being with my family, including some extended family who I have not seen in years (decades is almost accurate - another 2 or 3 years and it would've been 20 years for at least one of them ( Read more... )

So, here I am, blogging via my new netbook computer.  It is a lovely little Asus eee PC 1000, w/ a Linux operating system & 40G SSD.  It has a webcam & even has some voice operated command thingy, by which I guess I could be really lazy & launch programs if I chose to use it. I doubt that I will find a use for such a thing.  This mini-'puter has a ( Read more... )

Hello all ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm not terribly Irish, although there is some Irish flowing through my blood.  But I did grow up on Irish Road, so I'm thinking maybe that counts for something ( Read more... )

Just wanted to say that this year at St. John's, we re-tooled our Christmas expectations.  We did not hire a professional musician, we didn't borrow our Worship & Music Committee's cello-playing daughter-in-law, we did not have our choir do multiple anthems.  Instead, we chose hymns for people to sing along w/ for the prelude, had a duet just ( Read more... )

An addendum to the "What's been going on around here" theme: New stuff for our house.

Andy & I took advantage of Linens N Things misfortune by shopping at their going-out-of-business sale before we went on vacation. We bought new curtains for the living room & our bedroom - all the same curtains! That would be because I mis-remembered what size ( Read more... )

Well, Andy was complaining to me the other day that I have not blogged in a long time, and that is true, so I figured I'd try to get my act together and share some of what has been going on up here in the Long Island area these days.

So, what has been going on here?

We went on vacation to Orlando, FL for the week before Thanksgiving, also the Sunday ( Read more... )

Too tired to write much now or even to process the events of this night, but just wanted to record how happy I am that Barack ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Andy & I went and bought, & Andy installed new programmable thermostats for our house.  I am quite excited.  No more getting out of bed when the alarm goes off the 1st time to turn the heat up so when I get up a snooze or 2 later I won't be freezing.  No more having to come downstairs after heading up to bed to make sure that I turned ( Read more... )