In November I received a jury summons. I took my one free postponement and said that I'd be available the week of Feb. 28 (my quarter break) and they did indeed send another summons. Off I went to the Hall of Justice in downtown Rochester, in the dawn drizzle ( Read more... )

Mr. OddP and I dusted off our symphony duds tonight and sallied forth into the filth and froth of the 147th straight day of moar! snaow! to hear the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra play Messiaen: Les Offrandes Oubliées (The Forgotten Offerings), Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2, and good old Beethoven: Symphony No. 5. It was all wonderful, and ( Read more... )

We went to a sleep-over last night! I bought Mr. OddP new jammies for the occasion, and I washed my presentable ones, which was good because I ran into our host in the middle of the hall as I was heading for the bathroom to brush my teeth. Why, you might ask, this geriatric slumber party ( Read more... )

Tonight was the Landmark Society's annual Rochester Ghost Walk. I've always wanted to go, and never had, so this year I made sure that I bought a ticket. I went by myself; my One True Love is on his way back from Toronto, having attended a Big Giant Geek Conference. (Something sponsored by Stack Overflow, actually, but I prefer Big Giant Geek) ( Read more... )

I am somewhat of a history buff when it comes to my adopted home town. (I grew up in Chicago, but I've lived here a lot longer than I did there.) This is a small city, easy to navigate and small enough to really get to know, and I've enjoyed finding out about neighborhoods and their histories. When calsabon was little and had a doctor's appointment, I'd ( Read more... )

Today was the Landmark Society of Western New York's annual house walk. Of course, it's the first blazing hot weekend we've had this year, and it's supposed to cool off tomorrow, but at least it didn't rain ( Read more... )

OK, the snow is picking up, and the NOAA is saying that there may be accumulations of 7 to 14 inches near the lake. Better. Much better.

It's looking quite pretty out there, and there is a pot roast in the oven. We are watching the Futurama movie, and later I will make some brine and set a pork roast to soaking for tomorrow. I need to do ( Read more... )

Geez, they were talking about a possible 20" of snow! So what are we getting? Maybe 5 inches of snow and a little freezing rain. Big effin' deal. Things are closed all over town, and for what?

This is an insult to Western New York, that's what it is.

My adopted home town seems to have itself a new serial killer. Robert Bruce Spahalski (sorry, .pdf file with a blank first page, don't know why) walked into a police station, told them where to find a body (accurately, it turns out) and confessed to another murder in 1991. Now police are looking at him very closely, hoping to find connections to ( Read more... )