D is for Dearth
Leaving for a few days, blogging dearth to ensue. See ya next week.
Photoblogging Thanksgiving Dinner
The menu: smoked turkey (with dressing, gravy, and cranberry sauce), standing beef rib roast, mashed potatoes, salad, mustard greens, bread pudding, pumpkin pie. All home made, of course. Our daughter Polly is here, and Dee and Darrell, friends, are coming over to eat with us. Family, friends, food — it was all great. The roast came […]
Fall Colors
I have a weblog and a digital camera. You’d think there’d be more photos here, wouldn’t you? Okay, I’ll try harder. I really will. The first one is overdue. Our son and his family were here for Hallowe’en, and we carved jack-o’-lanterns together. This is our grandaughter Taylor and her dad working on their pumpkins: […]
Fixing What’s Broke (Part I)
Woo-hoo, the Arizona no smoking proposition passed (the real one, not the one sponsored by R. J. Reynolds). I can hang around in bars again! As for the election in general, I, for one, welcome our new congressional overlords. Try not to screw up, okay? And while you’re at it, try not to screw us […]
Vote Early, Vote Often
When you have company it’s hard to make time for peripheral activities like blogging. But we did take time to fill out our ballots and mail them in, allowing us to smugly state: we voted. Control of congress will go to the party with the most energized voters. We’re energized. We hope you are too. […]
Nailed
When you ride over a nail on a motorcycle, the front tire flips it pointy-end up, perfectly positioned to penetrate the rear tire. I nailed a rear tire about a month ago, and a good friend loaned me a nearly-new tire to replace it. I hadn’t ridden more than 20 miles on the replacement tire when […]
Lagging the Fight
You wouldn’t know it, but I’ve been pretty busy with this blog, learning WordPress and tweaking the format. Oh, and reconstructing my other blog from scratch after screwing up the original (soon to be abandoned). But a blogging dearth is a blogging dearth, and I’ll try to make up for it. I promise.
Voter ID
I posted this to another blog on May 16, 2006, right after a futile attempt to vote in an Arizona special election. This voter ID shit isn’t about keeping illegal aliens from voting. It’s about keeping minorities, the elderly, and the poor from voting (pdf file) – in a word, Democrats. And today, I am one happy Democrat! […]