Sometimes I forget that not all of you are connected to me on Facebook & Twitter, and I wanted to let y'all know I made it through the storm just fine. We had some rain and a lot of wind, but no power outages or trees down, or flooding like they had in NYC. Man, they got socked. Everyone else in my circle of friends/family have been accounted for ( Read more... )

Another day, another thunderstorm. This one was huge, stretching from the Hudson valley to New Hampshire. It got really, really dark, and then really, really windy. The rain came down in torrents. The lights kept flickering. Of course, it was almost quitting time, so we milled around for a bit, peering out the windows to see if it was letting up at ( Read more... )

I'm looking forward to the premiere of Fringe on the telly tonight. It's been a while since there's been anything new on TV, especially anything genre. Since it's on Fox, I can only hope that lots of other people watch too, especially if it turns out to be as good as its premise. I'm kind of tired of being disappointed by canceled genre series ( Read more... )

I got stuck in my car at lunchtime today, due to a wicked* thunderstorm. It started when I was down at Heritage Park, with the sky turning a menacing black and the trees swaying wildly in the wind. I rolled up the windows and headed back to work just as the skies opened up. I didn't want to get soaked, so I sat in the parking lot while pea-sized ( Read more... )