1. I already wrote stuff about my Christmas-week trip to Massachusetts in my paper diary, so please pardon me for not rehashing it. I'm thankful for the people I did see and am sorry I didn't get to see more people. Schedules are always a bit tricky around the holidays. I'm just glad that I got to see people instead of interacting with them on ( Read more... )

The boy toy and I got home around 7 o'clock last night. Yes, it was a night for dance/music practice, but once I got past the threshold I did NOT want to cross it again. I drove a total of 1,172 miles in five days! Thus, I felt a powerful, overwhelming urge to be stationary for a while ( Read more... )

... when I was reminded why the windows in the future educational center in the Very Prestigious Institution (the project that I am working on for the V.P.I.) are blast-proof. Something about high-value targets across the street and all that. Especially high-value on April 15 every year ( Read more... )

King Richard's Faire was the very first renn-faire I ever attended, back in the 1980s. I think my first year there was 1986. I haven't been back there for 20 years, but I hear about it from time to time. Now it seems to have some actual competition in New England. Interesting ( Read more... )

Maine makes it four out of six New England states, and five out of the 50 states, to recognize same-sex marriage! New Hampshire, of all place, might be next....

This, after the DC City Council voted to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere in the U.S. (Some news accounts said "performed in other states," but the District IS NOT a state ( Read more... )

Interesting discussion on "baby boomers" and politics ( Read more... )

Gosh, I've been worried for two weeks that the Giants were going to be a tough opponent for the Patriots, but then again, how could I NOT root for a team whose nickname I share? I dunno what happened there at the end. The Patriots were simply not playing like their old selves ( Read more... )

You KNOW it's cold in New England when Bill Belichick wears a down jacket!!

But hey, who cares, because The PATRIOTS are going to the SUPER BOWL!!!!

It wasn't the prettiest game, but we WON just the same!!

It's now 19 degrees F in Foxborough, down from 23 at the start of the game. Now to the NFC playoffs in Green Bay, where it's even COLDER.

Now I hate to count my chicks before they've hatched ... BUT ... we're six minutes and change away from the Super Bowl, and I'm starting to taste it!!!

My friend S. told me this morning that she and her hubby are hosting the Super Bowl party this year. (She's the aunt of one of the Theater Teens from Yule Revel.)

Today I took my annual walk-outside-in-T-shirt-in-January stroll around the block, courtesy of global warming ( Read more... )