While my part of the country is not nearly as hard hit as many others, I completely sympathize with this, courtesy of Failblog:


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In the midst of the raging blizzard up north (yes, I'm mocking you - here it's 30 degrees but under a sunny sky), they prodded a poor rodent out of his hibernation at some godawful hour this morning. Allegedly, they did this to predict an early spring, probably to make people in places like Chicago feel better.

But, the article points out "In ( Read more... )

These dark cold gray days suck. I made it out of bed this morning in time for work. I meant to get up and run, but rain and gray and chilly made that too daunting. Bed was warm and comfortable. I haven't been sleeping well, so I really just wanted to stay there. I did for as long as I could.

I'm reading (via audiobook) Keith Richards' Life ( Read more... )

Christmas is coming, and I'm not at all interested. I don't mean to be a Scrooge. But I was thinking about what I want for Christmas this year. I finally figured out that what I really want is to just not bother ( Read more... )

It's cold and I hate it.

One of my co-workers mentioned this version of this classic song. This huge Hawaiian man on the sunny beach singing this pretty song. Embedding the video has been disabled so here's a link.

Think spring!

I was just saying the other day that I was finally ready for it to be fall. It had been unseasonably warm here, with bright sunny, even humid, days. The calendar said September; the weather said July ( Read more... )

It was a beautiful sunrise this morning ( Read more... )

Four years ago, unlike right now, it did not rain. For which I am thankful.

We gathered in a field on a tobacco farm in Kentucky. The sun was high and hot, but the day was slipping into night and taking the heat away with it.

Four years ago today, I married the fabulous rosepurr. Sometimes she asks if I was nervous. The answer is no. Or if I had ( Read more... )

I feel like crap ( Read more... )

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