It's definitely hot here. Hot enough that I went for my midday walk around Noon, while the temperatures were still in the double digits. That's an hour and a half to 2 hours earlier than I normally go out. We're expecting triple digit temperatures here. The predicted high for Hackensack, NJ is 102F/39C. The way things are going, we just might make ( Read more... )

HACKENSACK, NJ: North Jerseyans awoke to the heartbreak of cosmic dandruff this morning. The outbreak began after dawn, and is expected to continue until later tonight. Crews coated the roads last night with Head and ShouldersTM and SelsunBlueTM, but this has had little effect in ameliorating the outbreak. Complained one crew chief, "It just sticks ( Read more... )

Well, not really. But that's what we're going to get, a wet Christmas and beginning of Hanukah. At least according to the weather predictions for northern NJ and southeastern PA. At least it's going to be warmer than the past couple of weeks.

A dispatch from the war over Christmas. I noticed again last night that the Baptist Church in Hackensack ( Read more... )

This weekend I went up to the local Apple Store in Woodcliff Lake to check out iPods and laptops. My home computer is a Performa 6300 that I bought around 1996, and I wanted to actually type on and use some laptops before I decide what to order. Well, guess where they built this Apple Store? In a former apple orchard. It's located in what's now ( Read more... )

This is probably not original, but I thought I would pass this along for your road trip amusement. This only works on roads with billboards on them, like the Northern portion of the NJ Turnpike. Last weekend Gary and I went to Mark Mandel's housefilk in Philly, which was fun, but I digress. Sunday, on the drive back from staying at my sister's, ( Read more... )

I didn't think I was going to be making entries in this Journal when I registered, but I guess I am. Lately I've been dragged more and more into proofreading aricles and reports here at work. We must be coming up on a Newsletter deadline, because I was given a book review to edit this morning. The review was written by one of our lawyers about a ( Read more... )