As promised, photos from today. We started out in the Conservatory at the Windmill Island and there were quite a few exotic (well, to me at least!) flowers present.

( Flowers! )

Lillian (my new car, if you recall) and I have had our first Road Trip! One month after I bought her, I drove her to Holland, Michigan for the Tulip Time Festival.

Yesterday, after school, I loaded her up and drove north and west to Douglas, MI, where our hotel, the AmericInn was awaiting me. By "our" I mean mine and judiang and elsaf's hotel. I got there ( Read more... )

There's something so refreshing about Spring Break. You have time to get some things done that you've been putting off till then. You can go off and do fun things during a week day. You can sit and read for hours without any guilt. I was quite looking forward to this break because of all of these reasons and more ( Read more... )

And by March Madness I don't mean basketball... Instead, I mean our mad weather. Our county (and many others around us) is under a Winter Storm Warning starting tonight at 10pm and lasting until Monday morning. They're currently predicting 5-7" of snow for the storm (which is an improvement upon earlier predictions of 8+"). However, we're in that ( Read more... )

This has been an interesting winter, to say the least. We wound up having two days off the week before last and even had a snow day last Wednesday. That now puts us at 9 days missed. Sounds like Ohio might be nice and give us 4 days beyond our normal 5 calamity days, so we shouldn't have many to make up (hopefully ( Read more... )

In 2013, I purchased 1840 individual MP3 files (17.3GB) which is over 161 hours of material. Of that, the majority (1437 files, 14.5GB, 134 hours) is what I classify as "Spoken Word" (AKA Big Finish and other audio adventures). What with Doctor Who turning 50 in 2013, I wound up purchasing quite a few Big Finish (and BBC Audio) stories. And enjoyed ( Read more... )

I had wanted to write two posts this January covering the books I'd read this year and the music I'd bought. Well, the month is quickly moving, so I'd best get a move on if I want to do this ( Read more... )

We were very fortunate to have a long Winter Break - two full weeks. And then Mother Nature decided that wasn't enough. Heh. Today was our third calamity day for 2014 and the fifth for this school year. And I ain't complaining! I love unexpected days off (and today was a particularly unexpected one).

( Boring details of the rest of my time off. )

On Jan 1, 1971, at 12:16am, I came into the world. So for the past year, I was 42 years old. And I often wondered, in a solipsistic way, maybe Douglas Adams' question is something along the lines of "What age will Trina be when she ...?" "How old will Trina be when ..." (put in your own humorous or not-so-humorous fill-ins for the blanks). With, of ( Read more... )

Seems to be I've only been posting to my journal on holidays. So I guess I'll be posting on Jan 1 next. Heh ( Read more... )