...I shall eat a hot dog. Nothing better to watch a crumbling home team better than by eating a hot dog. To be fair, tomorrow's game will see Halliday on the mound so a Bosox loss would not be a fraud upon the gods but I will still root for the last knuckleballer and eat a hot dog and so will the …

The shift from snow to having a lawn to mow is startling. I may already be behind.  •  Update: Scots election chaos.  •  Please note two key differences between me and Mike.  •  I decided this May Day would be the day we should thank a great unheralded socialist of the past. The socialist dream we …

I have not put my mind to the question of whether the passing of my cat is related to the pet food poisoning matter. The one ate from the same dish and the late Frobie had symptoms for years. Yet, now learning more as we are about what has been going on, it would not be hard to wonder:  •  “As …

I set about picking the seeds for the garden this morning. Seeds and even fruiting bushes and trees are the perfect e-commerce product. Neat, compact and modest in price. One of the nice things about some sites is the ability to spend about 50% more - three bucks instead of two - and get the small …

An interesting week for we and Canada Post. One day a package that hardly registered for weight within province was taken for posting and the clerk said "eight bucks." "Eight bucks! Forget it. Give it to her next time we visit." On another day, two packages with identical size and identical … read more »

A few months to go yet.  •  A nice bomb down to the great state of Ithaca where we had diner at Moosewood with Gary and Maude as the greatest Charlie Brown snow in history fell outside. I wanted to sing "Hark the Herald" to loo-lo-loo-lo-looooo as roundheaded cartoon kids skated. We split a jug of …

Science has cut to the heart of a matter very dear to my heart...but even dearer to my brain:  •  “University of Bristol researchers say the caffeine eases withdrawal symptoms which build up overnight, but does not make people more alert than normal. The work, presented to the British Nutrition …

I write this Thursday with no idea when I will be able to click the toggle from hide to unhide. One of my favorite things about my personal blog interface is the use of physical toggles and the other sorts of knobs and buttons one might see on a ship's console in a rerun of the 1970s episodes of …

Tom gave me one of my favorite moments in 2006: I walk into a bar/restaurant in another country and as I do the guy playing piano turns around and shouts "Hey! It's Al!". Tome sent out an email to let me know that he's on the 88's tomorrow night. Go wouldja:  •  “Hey! Those of you who didn't go …