Well, so far, so good as far as the meds are concerned, though I haven't had the chance to find out what my BP is now, and I did get a bit light-headed after having a bheer last night (it eventually passed and I went to bed...if I can't have bheer while on this stuff, I am going to be one royally pissed Scooter). And DW did make an appointment for ( Read more... )

There's only room for one Scooter in politics!

Oboy, fun weekend ahead. Taking the train to New York tonight, on a mission for the Greens...there'll be some meetings strategizing on how to impeach George Bush (hey, Democrats, you can help - try writing to your own Congresscritters and asking them why they're not going anywhere with this*). After that, it's back to Baltimore Sunday morning and ( Read more... )

Win98 is so not doing it for the home system nowadays, and the monitor is old and degraded to the point of seriously hampering Web design and development, which is its primary use at this point. Need to upgrade to a WinXP system, as I do not yet trust Vista. My hope is that barebones desktop systems running XP are coming down in price ( Read more... )

A few days ago, I'd assembled a lengthy essay on what happened, contemporarily, in Boston. Unfortunately it became very lengthy and I never finished the stupid thing; however, you can probably guess the point that I was gearing up to make. I hope that I'll complete it sometime in the near future, but for now, I'd like it to be read while it's ( Read more... )

Stay with me, here. First, mooninites show up all over Boston, prompting the alert and not-at-all-hysterical-why-do-you-ask Boston authorities to enact their special three-week emergency response to these hoax devices which were obviously set up to blow up the Charles, spew molasses all over the place, and cause the Red Sox to actually consider ( Read more... )

My weather widget is telling tales of cruelty in its five-day forecast. (All temps C, as is my custom.)

• Today: Partly Cloudy. High 1, Low -8
• Sunday: Partly Cloudy. High -2, Low -12
• Monday: Mostly Cloudy. High -6, Low -12
• Tuesday: Mostly Cloudy. High -2, Low -11
• Wednesday: Partly Cloudy. High -1, Low -9

I think it was Mark Twain who said that he never wished ill of the dead, but he'd read many an obituary with pleasure. Along those lines I discovered today that Howard Hunt had passed away. Hunt was one of the guys behind the Bay of Pigs, the Guatemalan coup in the 1950s, Watergate, and almost certainly (as proven by Mark Lane in a court of law) ( Read more... )

(Warning: contains overwrought allegory)

The NYT has a lead article today on some podunk burg in Georgia where a local kids' soccer team is composed entirely of refugees from other countries, torn by famine or war. I read a bit of it while in line at the drugstore; the opening grafs were an eye-opener: the mayor of the town forbid the playing of ( Read more... )

Stone Mill Pale Ale, Green Valley Brewing Co. This is a new organic that I picked up at Richburn; they had a lager, but I'm partial to ales. It's good and malty, with a good hop balance; not sweet at all, but not overpoweringly bitter. Doesn't mind going for that "rustic" taste. Worth checking out the others in the line...it's not as good as ( Read more... )