South Texas made national headlines this week. The sky started precipitating against a backdrop of near-record low temperatures. That’s a bad combo in South Texas. We don’t even really have much of a budget for road salt. If you don’t have any obligations to leave the comfort of your house, you have the luxury of … More The long dark tea time of my week
The beach enjoys a privileged status as a stereotypical dream destination. Most people can’t wait to kick off their shoes and walk in the squishy wet sand, feeling the salty air blow against their faces. As usual, I am different. And as usual, I am the opposite. Don’t get me wrong, I like the beach … More ‘Go West, young (wo)man’
Hmmm… WordPress wants me to “share my story here“. WordPress should probably be careful what it asks for (lol). My only real story at the moment is that it has rained (a thunderstorm that actually spared our power supply!), which means that the temperature has dropped a good few degrees in the last hour, and … More Diary of a Sunday (aka random-ass thoughts) ~ 05-20-2018
I was going to say “notes from Lake Wobegon”, but in light of recent events surrounding Garrison Keillor… I decided not to. Besides, “taiga” fits. Local weather people hooted and hollered about “warm-ups” to -6 degrees and “heat waves” of anything above zero. Don’t get too excited yet–windchills are still well into the negative numbers, … More Notes from the Taiga
Whoever said this lives in the Taiga that is Minnesota–or maybe Manitoba. Because, well, it’s the truth. Honesty is a virtue, right? 😉 What does “frightful” mean, anyway? Well, it could take on any one or combo of several meanings. It could be the first-snowstorm-in-30-years event that we had in South Texas, but we’re not … More Well, the weather outside is frightful 🙂
Top of the “news” (literally–we made national headlines) was yesterday’s snowstorm. As in, I got caught in a freak blizzard that nobody saw coming, so nobody could have warned us about it. An “unexpected weather event”, the media said, without elaborating further. It was the first snowfall in *30 years*. That’s how “freak” an event … More There’s snow place like Texas
A cold front arrived on the backend of a plume of drizzle that blanketed us this morning. I couldn’t be happier. In South Texas, “cold” means anything under about 60 degrees Fahrenheit (I’ll whip out the ol’ conversion calculator for my lovelies in the rest of the world 😉 – yep, 15.5 degrees Celsius). That … More Winter (?) in San Antonio
There are several threats to the creation of this post. 😉 First and foremost, the Histamine Monster, swirling around from high above for several hours now, his finally made a dive-bombing move. As in, tape a “kick me” sign to my nose. Second, I’ve now taken the antihistamine, but it hasn’t yet taken me. It … More 11/5/2017
One aspect of blogging using my phone that I like is that it provides those neat little auto-suggestions (technical term: QuickType), which means that I have a prayer of spelling words like “miscellany” correctly. Good lord, that was a clunky sentence. Oh well. It’s Sunday night, and not only was last week a busy one … More Ramblings of miscellany
For obvious (and unfortunate) reasons, the office was quieter today, and I guess I’m feeling an introspective vibe coming on. Hell, it could also be my antihistamine (Benadryl) starting to nip around the periphery of my brain, kind of like the beginning of Monday’s solar eclipse. Either way, I think I’m about to get all … More Miscellaneous sampler platter of inner thoughts ~ 08-24-2017
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