Have a good Thanksgiving…

Be it a hamburger at McDonalds, a mega-spread at gran’s, you’re cooking for 20, or just spending a cozy day doing nothing—have a very good Thanksgiving. And a special Thanksgiving to those dedicated police, fire, transportation, city services and...

Solar tsunamis: neat stuff.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/24nov_solartsunami.htm?list213621 Wouldn’t want to be on Mercury when one of those hiccups goes off.

Coming, as e-books.

Rider at the Gate, Cloud’s Rider. Rimrunners. Tripoint. Finity’s End, Goblin Mirror, Rusalka, Chernevog, Yvgenie. They won’t be the only ones. Don’t expect them all to appear at once, and that’s not the order in which they will appear....

The filk last night…

…went pretty well. And I played about 5-6 pieces and screwed up a bit, but my fingers have no blisters, thanks to several days of noodling around and getting my fingers used to the idea. Considering I only remembered F, G, A, E, and D, D7 yesterday morning, I...

Great Western Fireball…

JCrowell sent me the link. Check out the security cam videos as well. Quite something. I’d thought it would be a larger Leonid (the current meteor shower) but NASA thinks otherwise. http://www.spaceweather.com/

Home invasion hits apartment complex where we lived…

http://www.krem.com/news/Woman-pistol-whipped-in-70268762.html Did I tell you we got out of that place because we were living across the landing and directly above people who I doubt would have passed a background check—as evidenced by the armed police takedown...

Writing ahead; took to the ice; and got the skates sharpened.

Apparently I dinged a blade at some point. I’m very careful with my skates, and Larry, who sharpens them, says I could have stepped on one of the threshold screws the hockey teams sometimes expose at the gate—they go out in a huge rush: and they sometimes...

My prediction is a warmer, less snowy winter…

…of course I could be wrong. But our snowfall yesterday melted nearly as soon as it hit, and our prediction of several days of snowfall has moderated to mostly hovering between rain and snow for the rest of the week. Jane and I both prefer the cold: I call 75...