Yesterday, as I exited the house to leave for work, a large hawk took flight from one of the trees closest to the house. It had a four-five foot wingspan (so large an estimate because I'm one of the worst judges of such measurements), and flew off without a sound, flapping slow and heavy in the still, chilly air. Had I known it was there, I would ( Read more... )

We lost power Tuesday morning, a little before seven in the morning. Just down the street, a tree had been blown over, right into the electrical lines leading into a transformer ( Read more... )

Today was... weird. We only got the nutty calls at work today - including someone asking if we made furniture (the company I work for does make things for indoor use, but nothing remotely like furnishings), and another who wanted to know who their local representative was without knowing their zip code. That one was in NJ, for which we have two ( Read more... )

11:59AM: Looked out back door in preparation for running errands. Thermometer read 56º. Clearly, un-January-like weather. Went out in a tee-shirt and an open hooded sweatshirt ( Read more... )

'tis a half hour before Christmas, and what is it I do ( Read more... )

As anyone I know who reads this journal is aware, I have at last escaped my dreaded co-worker and have gone to a standard 8-5 (with hour lunch) job. Still customer service (how few jobs aren't customer service, in some way!) I have gone from working in a minimalist office located at a public transportation center with only a woman who drives me ( Read more... )

My subconscious brain is very strange ( Read more... )

Sometime in the last twenty-four hours, the singleton bunny died. It'd seemed quieter the past couple days, but not sick. My guess is that it tried to wean itself too fast; it was sampling its mother's food from the first day it could find her dish.

Wasn't even a month old. Damn it.

Got new car. Took all of Wednesday, but danged if I didn't get one. Alas, an SUV, though not a particularly big one. It came with half a tank of gas: upon filling the other half on the way home from work a couple hours ago, I discovered that the gas tank is about twice as big as it was on the other car. Oog. I am hoping this means that I can fill ( Read more... )

Called the mechanic Saturday, noon-ish, to be told that the water pump and timing belt are going on the car. That I could deal with: the car's reached 99K, things are going to start to go. It'd be about $400 of work. Ouch. But coverable ( Read more... )