Would it kill me to pay my bills, already?

Yes, the site disappeared for a couple of days. Oops! Forgot that in addition to registration, I also had to pay the hosting service. (In fairness to me, they sent me exactly ONE notice, and that was more than a month ago.) Now we’re back in the good graces of the web gods.

While failing to keep track of e-commerce, terrestrial commerce proceeds. You may hate me now — I am 97% done with Christmas shopping. There’s always the last-minute little junk we need to get for Christmas eve gifts and people we didn’t know we were going to see, that sort of thing, but everything major is purchased and in shipping. One major exception, but we just need to go and do it — a present to ourselves that may be too big to fit in the Xterra, which is saying something.

Weird weather continues, but it’s giving us days that are touching 70 well into November, and the greenest grass I’ve ever had in ANY month of the year, let alone the eleventh. Yesterday I found myself in Colonie with time to spare and didn’t feel like getting my whole bike rig together, so I took out my rollerblades and skated The Crossings, the new fabulous park Colonie built for itself. Very very pleasant, just perfect for rollerblading — mostly flat but with a few little thrills built in, a number of miles of paths and different ways to do them, and a gorgeous bathroom. What more could one ask? It was sunny and gorgeous, and maybe I’ll keep my bike tan just a little longer.