We’ve had more than three feet of snow here so far, and it’s still coming down — forecasts are saying we could see another foot and a half to two feet in the next twenty-four hours. News reports say that it shatters the previous record snowfall in this city, set in the early seventies. Where’s [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Life in General category.
The White Stuff
Judging from the picnic table in our back yard (one of the few things that I can see both the top and bottom of to properly gauge depth), we’ve gotten nearly two feet of snow in the last twenty-four hours. And it’s still coming down. Hard. Looks like it’ll be time for the annual inaugural [...]
“Stormtec Stormbags”
I was dismayed to discover that the utility room in our new house does not have a drain in it, one of its very few shortcomings. If the water heater ever leaks (as happened in our previous house once already), it will be a major problem — there’s nowhere for the water to go. There [...]
“Boston firefighters get oxygen masks for cats and dogs”
Happy Hallowe’en! And to celebrate, here’s a story about a different kind of mask — one that firefighters can use to keep Fido and Fluffy breathing while they’re being rescued from a burning building. In the last few human generations, cats and dogs have gone from working cohabitors of our land, to beloved family pets, [...]
Winston, our Mighty Hunter
As mentioned before (in posts such as this one), we share our house with three feline companions. Winston has always been our problem child, usually by his attitude that litter boxes are optional equipment. He’s also the original scaredy-cat, almost always looking around wide-eyed and running away from everything, including us. Last night GoddessJ, who [...]
Update on The Big Move
We’re mostly moved in now. As usual after a move, we can’t find anything… we labeled all the boxes, but we’re not sure where some of the boxes themselves ended up in all the confusion. I insisted on moving all our computer equipment myself, so I knew where all that stuff was, and the office [...]
I Hate Moving, Redux
I’ve said it before: I hate moving. But with any luck, I won’t be saying it again. Our experiment at renting out our old place ended a few months ago. Some of you know the details; for everyone else, I’ll just say it was a minor disaster, and it took more than a month to [...]
“News stories about stupid young people make old people feel good”
As I’ve mentioned before, my adoptive father listened almost solely to country music, by preference the old-school “my pickup broke down, my wife left me, and my dog died” kind. And being a very selfish person, he had no problem with making the entire family listen to it during interminably long car trips, while he [...]
University Students
The students are back in town, very obvious in their official school tee-shirts (and by the fact that the city’s population has jumped by nearly 20% in the last couple weeks — and the traffic has gotten worse all out of proportion to that). While driving yesterday, I saw four groups of such students, and [...]
“What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain”
Always a good thing to know. I’ve mentioned before that I seem to have acquired a permanent immunity to caffeine, but I don’t see anything here to explain that.