It is Jane’s Birthday!

Black cats are her thing. Remember Efanor. OSG has already struck. I have several things in mind. Our favorite pub has ‘free steak dinner on your birthday,’ and she is set on that. We have been in Seattle the last week, visiting her brothers. Now we are...

You'll have noticed a little service issue…

…with the server. They assure us all is now well: it was a structured shutdown, and all is in order. It came back up pretty well on schedule, so we apologize for the outage, and hope that that’s that.

You’ll have noticed a little service issue…

…with the server. They assure us all is now well: it was a structured shutdown, and all is in order. It came back up pretty well on schedule, so we apologize for the outage, and hope that that’s that.

Jane's doing fine…

…got hit in the other eye today by a mini-model plane. Sometimes it’s just your week. But we think she’s fine, and she says she’s showing no ill effects. Thank you all for your expressions of concern. I’m being driven slowly crazy by...

Jane’s doing fine…

…got hit in the other eye today by a mini-model plane. Sometimes it’s just your week. But we think she’s fine, and she says she’s showing no ill effects. Thank you all for your expressions of concern. I’m being driven slowly crazy by...

This was an Interesting Evening: Jane in the ER…

…from trimming a plant. It seems everything about euphorbias (spurge) is poisonous. She had trimmed the euphorbia we brought in, and began having eye pain. A fast check of the internet turned up “sap in the eye: blindness,” seeds–death. Fumes...

Our Mariners team (Seattle) has a new manager…

Wedge, who shepherded the Cleveland Indians in 2007. Jane and I are both…I don’t say, baseball fans, because we won’t watch just any game…but staunch Mariners fans. We really love going to Mariners games at Safeco. We’ve had two rotten...

Got the Subaru back and it runs like new.

Dunno if timing chains get worn or what, but it seems peppier. You might think ‘racket’, replacing a still functional timing chain, but over the years, I’ve come to believe Subaru when they say at x0,000 miles you should replace x. The car has always...