Spare a thought for Gary who wrote me this evening as he sits in the storm passing through central New York today:  •  “We went for a ride to do errands and had lunch at the parents. At that point, the river had covered their drive a bit. Later, as we tried to get home, the roads west were all …

Even as bloggers slow down or drop out, the links to the right still need to be sort of maintained or groomed. So I am looking for good topical blogs in the areas of music and sport. Have a look, wouldja? And if there is any more ROW blogs that would be good, too. I looked at a trusted blog index …

I noticed that this group of blogs are now #3 on Google for "World Cup Chat" - and I thought that was odd. Not as odd as #1 for Kerry + policies for a whack of weeks during the 2004 election but no one was really paying any attention to policies I suppose. But chat responsibly as the world is …

Summer job 1982  •  It's summer. Odd that I wait for months for spring to arrive but then summer slips in the door like the trickster it is. I am already waiting for the weeks to start slipping by. The first day of summer seems to have become the day on which fall appears to be on the …

During the last Gen X 40 rewards program event at The Nines in Ithaca, I mentioned to one loyal reader the burden on blogging - based largely on the expectation I have set up to be a regular writer. Yet I am amazed how this blog morphs and how these days, for example only, there is much more pie …

I have to confess I watched a northern sport last night - the Red Sox and Washington. Like NASCAR, I am finding it very difficult to get into the southern sport of ice hockey but good for Carolina bringing home the Stanley Cup.  •  Elsewhere, there are four games on tap:  •  Ecuador vs. Germany in …

I am a godfather of a blip. Woot! Click on through the image to get to the full story as printed in a Washington state paper, The News Tribune of Tacoma. Here is the story at the AP's own asap website.

Stinking hot looking down into Ithaca  •  You are right. I set up daily World Cup chat and before the thing is half done I take off for a weekend. We'll just to make you feel better it was 92° F down there today, there are two banjos in the house even if only temporarily and I am keeping all the …

What Ho! This is my 3003rd post to Gen X 40 over 3 years and 6 weeks or so and I have never begun with a "What Ho!" to you. So "What Ho, all you all!"  •  Now is the day, the day of fitba. Europe, in addition to being just generally evil and liberal (which I know because blogs say so), is …