Author: lazydog

SIX inches of snow in the last 3 hours! We are gettin’ buried by the “lake effect snow machine,” as the Weather Channel puts it. Another 3-5″ is coming before it’s finally finished. Our Christmas will be waaaay white. Right now I am deciding whether to go make a pecan pie or go outside and… Continue reading Let it snow!

Yesterday afternoon my cell phone rang. I look at the caller ID… It’s a friend who I haven’t talked with in over a year. You know, one of those lifetime, childhood friends who lives out of town. Not a best friend, but the kind you can ‘pick up where you left off’ with when they… Continue reading Believe it or not… (How f*cked up is this?)

Well, we did it. Mel and I got a new Sony Playstation2 as our Yule gift to each other. The damned things were sold out everywhere because of some mysterious “manufacturing delay” which Sony undoubtedly engineered to create a ridiculously high demand during the holiday shopping season. Every person I talked to in the few… Continue reading More electronic diversions…

Where to begin? Let’s see… Verizon sucks. The images and style sheets were lost when I upgraded my DSL speed. Verizon didn’t bother to tell me that the upgrade necessitated a “reset” of my account, so all the images and stuff I was hosting there for this blog (and elsewhere) was deleted. Grrr. On top… Continue reading Hello, are you there?