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The Gazebo arrrives →

Signs of spring: fewer kids at the bus stop; more kids on bikes. Two enormous raccoons on the fence tonight, spotlit by the garden lights. Turned on the fountain on the Oak Island Water Feature,…

Friendship is Magic →

Yes, I know, same old photos. New and exciting web redesigns coming, rolled out one-two-three this week. Worked on the site a lot this weekend, but also – big suprise, this – went to Southdale on…

Extended play update bonanza! →

Friday! It was warm in the morning, relatively so – no finger-nipping frost, that is. I think we hit 60 in the afternoon. In the evening I sat in the sole surviving chair from the gazebo collapse,…

Leaning towards lunch →

Blustery today. The sun came out in the afternoon, but it was weak and abashed, as if it knew it could do more. It did enough: the hard-packed ice on the back patio has begun to recede, and today I…

A Herculean Effort →

Friday night, here:

It used to be Figlio’s, a restaurant whose primary purpose was filling your belly with Italian food for a night of drinking, and whose secondary purpose was teaching…

Just the Facts →

There’s rain in the air, and it smells like spring. It’s expected to turn to slushy snow overnight, but that’s expected; defeated armies are famous for atrocities committed in retreat.

Back in…

Our Neighborhood →

So the long scrape of March ends, with the insult-to-injury day, the Thirty-First. As if thirty days of March is an insufficient ration. April brings the usual hope, and more: tomorrow I order the…

A Tin Fig, Given →

Several times today I’ve removed my jacket while wearing earbuds. Some sort of static electrical charge is generated by the motion of my arms through the sleeves, and it goes right up the wires…

Thiiiis close →

Looks like I’ll finish it this weekend, all right: completed the big slam-bang action chapter last night, and it was grand; I was exhausted when it was done, sore in the shoulders from tensing up…

That Tom Cruise Interface →

As noted, this is a sorta-kinda hiatus week, as I am taking some time off from work, kid’s out of school, and I am finishing the novel this week. Today’s brief note: I was sitting in a doctor’s…