Blue Monday

Won’t you be my neighbor? I’m really sad. See, my neighbors are moving out. One of them left yesterday and the other one moves in a week or so. I live upstairs in a subdivided 1914 house and they’ve been living on the first floor. They have been the Best Neighbors Ever and I’m really …


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Rat Bastard

We’ve got a critter who arrives every day at 4am to eat my house. I’m pretty sure we didn’t approve the move in, but he shows up anyway and starts at it, first scrambling across the roof, then making his way through the walls, then setting to it somewhere around the upper southwest corner of …


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Stage Fright

SUPA picnic photos are here. Yesterday, I did something I’ve never done before. I got up in front of a whole bunch of people, played my ukulele, and sang. All By Myself. The audience? All nice folks. I know most of them, because it was the SUPA picnic open microphone. I’ve learned songs from and/or …


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How to See the Olympic Peninsula

Don’t tell me I can’t learn from my mistakes. I absolutely can. And now, so can you. If you’re off to the Olympic peninsula and only have three days, take, please, my advice and do the following. Go ahead and do exactly what we did and book yourself a place at Ocean Shores Resort. I …


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Like THAT’s Helpful

This is from the setup software that goes with the Creative Zen Portable Media Player. You tell me what it means, coz I have NO idea. I clicked OK.

Fear and Loathing

You know what gets me? When that guy, you know the one, that supposedly runs the country, gets up in front of a crowd or a camera or something and tells the world that we’re not afraid of the terrorists that hate freedom. Okay, I’m totally paraphrasing, but you know what I mean. This gets …


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