Ahh, September
Kids are back in school as of today, and the dancing starts tomorrow. Days are bright and sunny, nights are...
Curse you, “Dancing With the Stars”
Seriously. I have managed to avoid all these stupid, horrible pointless pseudo-celebrity reality competitions on TV. It’s not an intellectual...
Not exactly stuck in the ’70s
But something kinda like it. Musically, anyway. My turntable this summer has been dominated by two ancient pieces of vinyl...
Linky Goodness
I don’t mean to get all linky on ya, but this week I ran across some sites that just demanded...
The Washcloth Index
I think one of the economic indicators most ignored by the so-called “experts” is the washcloth-by-the-side-of-the-road count. Last year, as...
Perilous poultry
Two on-bike encounters with feathered friends this week. In the first, I flushed a hawk on the opposite side of...
Not quite a fever
I usually have Olympic fever, though I admit that the Summer Games are way less interesting to me than the...
Lightning, no. Hail, yes.
They say that lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice. Apparently the same saying doesn’t apply to hail. I was...
Mmmm, painty.
You may have thought the end of the Tour de France meant that I’d be able to get back to...