Damn this weather. It's May already and it's only in the 60s. It might get up to the low 70s tomorrow, only to sink back into the 60s on Saturday ( Read more... )

... where it is cold and raining. Where I do not have a sweatshirt, sweater, or jacket because it was (and continues to be) in the mid-70s back home. And where my back is wrenched out of whack and I'm almost out of ibuprofen ( Read more... )

I leave for DC in the morning. I'm hoping to get in around 7:00pm. The biggest problem will be the car. LSB lives in an area with limited street parking, and most if not all of it is reserved for residents with parking stickers. We're trying to figure out where to stash my car for three days ( Read more... )

I'm heading to Charleston tomorrow. Not for Xmas, mind you, but for the five-day weekend.

In case you hadn't heard, former Speaker Tom Murphy died earlier this week, and he'll be lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda tomorrow (Friday). In an unusual move, The Powers That Be have shut down the entire Capitol building for the day. While the Speaker' ( Read more... )

Tired. I probably shouldn't have worked trivia last night; but last week when I decided to work last night, I had just plunked down $400 on my credit card for plane tickets. And tired was a week away ( Read more... )

It's the caffeine keeping me awake. The can of Coke Pepsi. The other can of Coke Pepsi with the rum in it. And the cup of coffee. By rights, I should have been asleep hours ago ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving snuck up on me this year. It's very early (earliest possible, in fact), so I wasn't even thinking about plans until a week ago or so. On Friday, I talked to my dad about heading up to Lon Gisland for the holiday; he said he'd have to check his schedule at work to find out when the best time would be. Tickets were running around $250 or ( Read more... )

OK, so three years ago I took a trip to Beijing, China. I took about 2400 pictures, I think. I had planned on going through them all, picking out the best of them, editing them to make them Pretty, and posting them all somewhere, most likely hereThat didn't happen. Or hasn't happened. For any number of reasons, not the least of which is I don't ( Read more... )

I've uploaded over 400 pictures to my Flickr account. All are straight from the camera, just resized down to 800 pixels (courtesy of the "uploadr").

I hardly have any idea what is where. I just took pictures. They're in the order I took them in with just a couple of exceptions.

Here's the set.At some point this week, I'll start picking out the ( Read more... )

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