Lumberjack Smoothie

1 part Irish Creme
1 part Root Beer Schnapps

15 Aug 2009
dep.BOS 12:00noon EDT
arr.SFO 3:25pm PDT

23 Aug 2009
dep.SFO 2:00pm PDT
arr.BOS 10:50pm EDT

Virgin
direct flights each way
$319.20 total costAll I really know here is that I have succeeded in (a) not having to wake up at 4am to catch a 6am flight from BOS, (b) minimizing my number of flights and airports and transfers, (c) managing ( Read more... )

My big by-train trip to and across Massachusetts wound up being a fantastic road-trip with sparklycricket, preceded by a few days of--I feel an odd cross between horrified and gleeful at using this word--staycation at her place.

Concertino was great, though we took a four six hour side-trip to Amherst on Saturday afternoon to drop off my squeezebox for repairs ( Read more... )

The title/headline and the lead photo in this New York Times article are completely incongruous.

See this News & Advance article for a contrasting perspective on this sort of real estate situation (specifically, five paragraphs from the end). And see here, here, and here for more and better photos.

Mmm, bacon. There are so many good things to do with bacon. However, you may wish to keep a list of "Things Not To Do With Bacon" in your kitchen. Start the list thusly:

Things Not To Do With Bacon
#1. Inhale.I have a love/hate relationship with travel which tends towards hate as the day of departure arrives. This is made worse when there are ( Read more... )

Spotted by someone at an MFL stop, reported on septa:


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This morning I received my formal invitation to join the American Travelling Morrice! (I was told this was a virtual certainty ten days ago given that its founder nominated me, but it wasn't official until this morning.) The ATM is a morris team which comes together for one week each August to live and dance together, each year in a different ( Read more... )

Was looking forward to morris-in-the-park tonight at 6:30, but at about 6:00 the thunder started rumbling and the trees started swaying and the sky had turned from blue to grey. The thunder has been rolling steadily, a very nice perrididdle, just enough to make it not worth it to drive forty minutes or pay for bus/train fare. Sigh ( Read more... )

Dancing was great, lasting from about 7:30pm until nearly 9:00pm, with Ring O'Bells and Bouwerie. There was one minor incident with the Park Police which was more humorous than anything ( Read more... )

Under Settings->Keyboard there is now an Auto-Correction toggle. When did that show up?! But it would be better if there were just ways to add words to the dictionary.

Anyway, I can now type Lansdowne. Yay!

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