Winter Weather? What Winter Weather?

It's January 5th, 2015 and was 62 degrees today at 6 PM. This is crazy, not that I am complaining about the temperature, but the rain can quit anytime now please. Just returned from SC and it was pretty much the same weather there.

Here's hoping we don't get any big changes and the winter is a mild one. Snow is something I can live without.

Rain and More Rain

It's been raining at the beach for the last five days and more is expected. If I had been on a vacation that cost me money, I would been croaking right now. Supposedly it will clear up in another day or so. The lack of activity is a real drag. Come on sunshine.

Wow. It's Been a Long Time.

Blogs take a bit more care and feeding that one may realize. In order to do it right, you need to do it often and have enough going on either in your life or your head to make it interesting. I need to do better so perhaps I should live an edgier life but that might get expensive.

What to do? Maybe switch from jeans to khakis?

It's Blog Time Again,

I've gone for quite a while without a blog post, primarily because I haven't had much to say and little time in which to say it. Work sometimes takes my focus away from things not work related, blogs included. Things are a bit quiet right now so here I am.

Winter is still going strong, despite the fact that today is about 60 degrees, sunny, and entirely beautiful. The massive amount of snow from a week ago is nearly all gone and people are actually washing their cars....most of them needing it too.

We're hoping to get away to NC early next month and also hoping to find things in good order when we get there. Usually, that ends up being the case, thank goodness. Maybe we will see some South Carolina family in the process.

Well, as you can see, I have nothing monumental to talk about...oh, I did grow a beard but that's not gonna last much longer. It looks so urban, almost so much so that a cardboard "help me" sign wouldn't be out of place. 

Anyway, have a great day and look for an upcoming post with a bit more splash in the future.

OMG I Forgot about You.

How about that....I totally forgot about this blog. Nothing has changed, every day the same....drive, shop, teach, pay bills, get things repaired, repeat. 

Not posting much lately.

Wow, it's been a while since I posted on this blog. I've been distracted, what with teaching, tripping, and just doing what you need to do in order to take care of life's business.
It seems to me that life is more complicated than it used to be. Bills to pay, repairs to get done, people to visit, and meetings to attend. I am giving serious thought to becoming a recluse but need to pick where I will reclude to when I do. Maybe a cave would be nice. Perhaps I could house squat. Anyway, I gotta run....have a meeting to attend.

Off to the Circus!

It's September 30 and today we're off to Cirque Du Soleil to see Totem. Hopefully, it will be a cool Fall day but not rainy. From what I can see, the cool part is on tap, but so is some rain.  Oh well, it's under a big tent so what the heck.  Happy circus and Happy Fall.

Politics isn't hard to understand

There are two kinds of voters in this country; honest, hardworking people who obey the law, support their family, and pay their taxes; and those who don't.
With 50% of the nation paying no taxes, and 57% of all tax revenues coming from 5% of the population, it isn't really hard to see who does and who doesn't contribute their fair share.
The food stamp program has nearly tripled in 4 years. Unemployment is rampant. Housing prices are slumping. In short, we can't afford to chance another round of promised hope and change becoming hopeless change.
No smooth rhetoric can make the fundamental problems disappear. No glib talking, fact twisting ex president, already debarred from practicing law for lying to a judge, can explain it away. Only a change in leadership and philosophy can put us back on the course first charted by our founding fathers.
Think carefully before you vote. This may be your last chance if you do it wrong.

Quelch Town has been deserted lately!

It's almost become a ghost town. Don't worry, it is still around, I've just been busy.

The night the sky exploded.

On June 29, 2012, at around 9 PM, the skies in and around Northern Virginia and Washington, DC exploded with rain, wind, and lightening. Power was knocked out in hundreds of thousand homes. The wind blew and lightening struck, bringing down trees in many locations.
In my own neighborhood, several very large trees were felled, one literally crushing the roof of a house, leaving a gaping hole in its wake. This was just one instance among hundreds in the area.
This was indeed a terrible storm, certainly one for the record books and one whose record won't be broken if we are lucky.