Quiet week all around, actually. This is not a surprise, as there is not much going on in this part of the world at this time of year. We are currently having a drizzling rain which almost immediately turns into black ice, so even if we had had any plans to go out, they would be getting cancelled.

I finished a ( Read more... )

I ended up having a two hour long conversation with my boss on Monday of last week. I got multiple problems solved by doing so, although there is not anything I can do about personality. So I am letting that go, and trying to focus on what I managed to accomplish. I will also ignore the fact that I did not think several of the topics were ones ( Read more... )

My supervisor returns tomorrow. That could be fun. Or not.

We got five to eight inches of snow last night. We were visiting some cousins that we had not seen for a couple of years yesterday, so we stayed at a hotel in Manchester because the weather was that bad.

Could I have gotten us home last night? Yes.

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Books of 2014

Payment in Blood, by Elizabeth George - This book was just as good as her first, and in some ways, even better, as you had far more potential suspects. You got a bit more background on the main protagonists, which also kept things interesting. Either I somehow missed this series as I was growing up, or I was not paying attention ( Read more... )

Happy New Year.
I cannot remember if I ever got around to posting this once I had digitally recreated it.  So this is probably a duplication.  Oh, well.

Death Without Company, and

Kindness Goes Unpunished, by Craig Johnson - I enjoyed the first book so much I went and read the next two. The stories give an idea of what it is like to live out west, ( Read more... )

              I remain undecided whether the benefits of the holidays outweigh the stress and aggravation that also occurs at this time of year.

I am still miserable about the death of Hunter. The fact that the decision to put him down was the correct one is irrelevant. I keep thinking I will see him appear in various doorways, ( Read more... )

This is one of those classic examples where you know what is going to happen, and you wish that you could be wrong, but it just is not going to be ( Read more... )

              It never ceases to amaze me how fast a four-day weekend can go. I have not been to work since Wednesday, and I am trying to figure out how it got to be Sunday evening again already. Not good.

We lost power for two hours Wednesday night due to the very heavy and wet snowstorm that started earlier that afternoon. It ( Read more... )

              Things have been quiet as of late. Which is good; bad enough that we are halfway through the month of November already. Still not quite sure how that happened.

Work continues to be a little tense between my two co-workers, and my boss has not improved. But, I am managing to keep my head down and stay out of the ( Read more... )

              Well, this was the weekend where we turned the clocks back. I have nothing against darkness; I have a great dislike of being in the dark this large an amount due to the time of year. I will try to console myself with the fact that it will start getting lighter out every day after 12/21. Until then, I will have to take more vitamin ( Read more... )