Remember back when I used to blog every weekday? Yeah, me too. Heh. Good times. Maybe I will again after the new year ( Read more... )

The weather has finally taken a turn for the genuinely cold here in Boston (it got down to freezing or below last night), and this time the cold weather seems like it might actually stick around, more or less. This, coupled with the fact that Samhain is only two nights away, means that its probably about time for my annual post commemorating the ( Read more... )

Clouds are kind of miraculous.

Not the most profound thought, I know, but there you have it. As I was sitting on the plane flying to Chicago on my recent trip I found myself staring out the window at the whispy, illusory shapes formed by the water vapor. They seemed so solid and tangible, and so close, like I could reach out and touch them ( Read more... )

Last month Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early Spring for the first time in eight years. If the prolonged spell of arctic air we've suffered through in Boston this week is any indication, March still has every intention of coming in like a lion. And yet all week the weather service has predicted that warmer temperatures are just around the corner ( Read more... )

The weather is completely ridiculous today. Bright shining sun and blue skies, bone-chilling cold and gusts of wind that feel as if they could pluck you off the ground and deposit you somewhere in the next county. I am dreading the walk from work to the train station ( Read more... )

I had a good weekend, if too short (as ever.) Saturday the weather was really nice (in stark contrast to the start of this week, which has been unpleasantly cold and windy and is due to get colder.) Eric & April (of Story Games Boston fame) had been kind enough to invite me and foreign_devilry to take advantage of the unseasonal climate. We had a picnic and some ( Read more... )

Walking around outside in Boston the past couple of days its like watching the polar ice caps melting in miniature. Someone more clever than me is ultimately responsible for that notion. There have been a lot of discussions of the ridiculous storm, and how it layered various different kinds of moisture atop one another and then conveniently froze ( Read more... )

Winter simply cannot get its act together in Boston this year. We were promised snow. And we got snow, for the first inch or two. But its wet snow that turned quickly to slush. And now it is sleeting steadily, layering atop what snow remains with tiny bits of ice. All indications are that before the day is over the temperature will get above ( Read more... )

Winter has at last descended upon Boston, and its come swiftly and without remorse, angry at having been held back too long by bouts of unseasonable warmth and drizzling Autumnal rain in place of snow. The weather service would have me believe that the high today will be in the low twenties, with a wind chill dropping us down into the mid-teens. ( Read more... )