* To-day I got a remote control snake. The cats are fascinated by it. I am charging it now through my computer's USB hub. The remote is egg shaped and requires 3 button batteries placed in series ( Read more... )

Since last Tuesday we have been nervously waiting for the tally of the votes nationwide. Although counting still continues, there is now no possibility that the electoral vote will change: Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States of America in January 2021 ( Read more... )

It is still a bit chilly, but clear skies, dry and sunny ( Read more... )

February 11 is a good time in the year ( Read more... )

Despite the fact that temperatures are still in the 30s and 40s, I think we have seen the last of the snow and ice. Spring is coming ( Read more... )

The weather and sense of Spring is in the air. I saw a hummingbird hovering about 10 feet from my 2nd story window yesterday. Only briefly, but I know it was not my imagination ( Read more... )

* Did two consecutive performances last night as Cesare in a burlesque act with Marisa at Crush in Portland. This was our 2nd and 3rd performances of this act. For the 3rd I added a very huge smile at the very end before going off stage, ala Data when he was learning to dance in Star Trek The Next Generation. The 2nd performance had a few ( Read more... )

Our heat snapped on within the last two weeks ( Read more... )

I call the days between mid-October and mid-March "The Bad Days" because sunlight is short and the weather is often rainy and windy. This makes it difficult to do anything productive and certainly anything productive outside.

Back in 2005 I didn't have a name for it but was obviously bothered by it when I did this graph:


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* It is hot in the afternoons, we hope, for the last stretch as we enter Fall ( Read more... )