Here’s to having a safe, healthy, happy, and prosperous New Year! I don’t do New Years Eve anymore and haven’t since the last millennium. I don’t imbibe and I hate crowds. Plus it will be pi$$ing rain. So it’s Movies.… Continue Reading
Well this is embarrassing. I’ve got nothing again. I’ve been busy at work (rather unseasonably) and just feeling kind of drained. It doesn’t feel very Chistmassy out there, despite every talking head babbling about all of these events and goodies… Continue Reading
Reading Musette’s post from yesterday brought it home that Fall is really here. As a matter of fact we are well on the way to winter. So I thought “Tom, you haven’t bored readers rigid with your stories in, like,… Continue Reading
Hey friends – it’s the tail end of the long Labor Day weekend in the U.S., maybe some of you are reading this at the beach? Or stuck in traffic trying to get home (if you’re driving, put the phone… Continue Reading
My nose is on strike* – allergies? Dry climate? Ancient mummy curse? Who knows. So today you get a brief (well, brief for me) natter about plants. Specifically, houseplants. If that bores you to tears, no worries, please come back… Continue Reading
I am actually writing this before Christmas (on the 20th, to be exact) because in an uncharacteristic fit of competence I am not leaving things until the last minute. Not because I am jetting off to someplace for the holidays-… Continue Reading
I’m posting this on the eve of the elections in the U.S., and unless you’ve just arrived on Earth you probably know all about it. There are A Lot of Feelings. Tensions are high. I’m not betting we’ll know the… Continue Reading