So here we are, stuck in the below-zero degrees zone, and I tell you, I’m more than ready for spring.
The dogs are unhappy about going out in this weather, and BJ and I have hunkered down as much as possible as well. I don’t think the furnace has quit running since Tuesday.
Remind me about how [...]

Speaking of Christmas, I know it’s NOT supposed to be all about the presents, but I gotta tell you — it was really nice to be able to share the Santa thing just a little this year.
Last Christmas was horrible.  Between my shattered pelvis and BJ’s surgically altered shoulder, neither of us was working, so [...]

It’s both the best of times and the worst of times.
First, the best:  Christmas was wonderful.  BJ and I had a great holiday.  The weather was warm enough that all the wet stuff fell  as rain, so travel wasn’t a problem.  The quartet’s Christmas program was extremely well received.  None of the gifts had to [...]

Welcome to the holiday break!
One thing about teaching at the college that’s very different from full-time radio is the schedule.
I turned in final grades this weekend, and now, I’m off until classes resume on January 12.  Since my last final exam was on Friday, that’s an entire month off.
It’ll really be different come summertime when [...]

Well, it wasn’t exactly Hotel Las Vegas, but it was still quite a gamble.
The newspaper office at the college has a darkroom in it, but nobody uses it anymore since all of our cameras are digital.  So the area has been deserted for who knows how long — until yesterday.
I finally mustered the courage to [...]

I’m seriously considering getting out my air tools and working on a personal jet pack to get from place to place around here.
First, there’s the tourist traffic.  Oglebay Park’s Winter Festival of Lights has begun, and since 1985, all of the locals have avoided the area like the plague because of all of the tour [...]

One of the more interesting (albeit mildly amusing!) side notes about working at the College turns out to be my office phone number.
You see, there’s an Affordable Dentures office somewhere sharing my number.  So my phone rings, and when I answer, it’s somebody wanting some new chompers.
I don’t do dentures.
I’ve started playing Directory Assistance with [...]

It’s one of my favorite times of the year.
We went up to camp this weekend.  When the remnants of Hurricane Ike came through here, it was still packing quite a wallop in the wind category, and  for almost two weeks, the entire area was without power.  We knew there were several trees down and such, [...]

Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor?
When Mom died, BJ and I got her dining room furniture, not so much because it fit into our house (it didn’t), but because of a longstanding tease.  And, well, it didn’t fit very well into our lifestyle, either.  So once a few years passed and I [...]

BJ and I are spending the day in our jammies.
Since we worked so hard this week painting two rooms, assembling furniture in a box (my three favorite words are NOT “some assembly required”!), carrying and arranging said furniture (which is incredibly heavy), fighting with pictures which refuse to hang straight, going up and down so [...]