The move is done! My stuff is here! In fact my stuff is piled high everywhere and we can barely get to the computers.

( Saturday )

As of last Saturday, I am no longer a North Canton resident. I moved in with duriyah, changing my residence by about 130 miles southwest and putting me about half an hour east of Columbus.

The move didn't go entirely smoothly, however. ( Read more... )

This Saturday I'll be moving from the North Canton house where I've lived for six years to duriyah's house 30 miles east of Columbus. I've been gradually moving things down there for some weeks already (what would fit in my little car), and I suspect I won't manage to get quite everything packed up in time, but this weekend will be when I rent the ( Read more... )

Remember the Great Blackout of 2003? It apparently started when trees interfered with power lines in suburban Cleveland. At the time few realized that it meant the end of tree-lined suburban streets ( Read more... )

Today I felt the need for another long bike ride; my last ride was almost a month ago ( Read more... )

Just returned from my longest bike ride since moving to Canton. Round trip 13.35 miles in an hour and a half. For Canton people, that's from our place near the middle of North Canton, meandering south along the back roads, down to Canton's 30th St, then fairly directly back. It felt really good, although I seem to have put too much pressure on ( Read more... )

In the wake of an ongoing conversation about the quality (or lack thereof) of education in various nearby school districts (particularly the abysmal reputation of the Canton city school district) came the news that 65 out of 490 girls are pregnant at one of the Canton city school district's two high schools. (Sorry, now I can't find the story in ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a minor milestone for me: I turned 32. The main celebration is a getaway weekend with nontacitare starting in a couple hours, though we did have a friend over last night, and I took today off work. (Missed the Bob Mould show at the Grog Shop last night, but I'd rather hang out with people I care about anyway. In fact we've almost made it a ( Read more... )

Every year around this time the mainstream press notices pagans, especially Wiccans. (Though chronarchy has been known to do special help with outreach later in winter.)

Locally, the daily paper discovered the weekly hangout of the Canton Area Pagans. (nontacitare and I have missed that gathering lately due to work, though I briefly considered going this week.) ( Read more... )

1. I managed to miss the Cleveland date of the Warped Tour this year. Oops. Ah well, I can stand to save the money (about which I may have more to say later). The Columbus date is Aug 17, but (among other things) I'm planning to be at Pennsic then.

2. After they finish the Warped Tour, Bowling For Soup is apparently coming to Canton to play a ( Read more... )