And a happier and most felicitous new year to us all!

We’re having, unless talked out of it, pizza and champagne—We’ve not quite succeeded in having the week off: we did, however, get the chance to look at some bathroom tile and make plans to plug the hog-sized (either porker or Harley, take your pick)...

Christmas report…

We stayed home and had pizza and Russian teacakes, plus Lynn’s really excellent fruitcake. 😉 In the craziness of it all, and being conservative this year, we bought our Christmas at Lowe’s on Black Friday, after Thanksgiving—and we were really...

You may have noticed the outage—a stray neutrino…

zapped some code, and there we were. However, our own wizard behind the curtain, Lynn, fixed it, and here we are! It’s spitting snow, though it’s scheduled to rain later in the week, and it’s feeling like Christmas. All prezzies are wrapped and under...

I lost somebody's check for Betrayer…

…..I had a letter in the CC mailbox. I brought it home. I carefully got it out and went to the basement to look for the book. I had trouble finding the book. I think I had the letter and check with me. I found the book. I lost the letter and the check somewhere...

I lost somebody’s check for Betrayer…

…..I had a letter in the CC mailbox. I brought it home. I carefully got it out and went to the basement to look for the book. I had trouble finding the book. I think I had the letter and check with me. I found the book. I lost the letter and the check somewhere...

I think we're about to start Christmas…

We have a lengthy holiday, snugged in at home while the weather turns toward snow for a week at least. Tomorrow, Christmas Eve, we’ll think of something, probably involving dinner, maybe a fancy breakfast. We don’t do prezzies until Christmas Morning. We...

I think we’re about to start Christmas…

We have a lengthy holiday, snugged in at home while the weather turns toward snow for a week at least. Tomorrow, Christmas Eve, we’ll think of something, probably involving dinner, maybe a fancy breakfast. We don’t do prezzies until Christmas Morning. We...

Merry Christmas from the cable channels? Ha!

I’m watching non-stop murders  because the idiot ditty on “How it’s made” erodes the brain, I have no interest in Battles of WWI at this moment, and one more bit about haunted hotels, Al Capone, Atlantis, or the Bermuda Triangle, and I am going...

The madding throng—or where the heck are my car keys?

Actually—the Swinging Door. Jane and I went out for dinner last night: I owed her a steak after what she did helping me with those galleys. But—I left my keys. So….today we had lunch/brunch with OSG and OSGuy, and then Jane went home and I went off...

OSG had surgery today, is doing well…

Or as she put it, this is the only scheduled hospital stay she’s ever had…her other visits have involved unplanned ones, aka accidents or emergencies. She had, and we think it is now entirely past tense, a little rapid-heartbeat problem that she’s...