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Sunday Sunday Sunday

| March 18, 2018

For some strange reason I have the old Monster Truck Rally commercials running through my head on repeat. Caroline’s robot team is competing next weekend. Apparently the team dyes their hair red for this. Yesterday she went and got a pixie cut along with becoming a red head. The look really suits her. She is […]

Happy St. Gertrude’s Day! 2018

| March 17, 2018

St. Gertrude is the patron saint of cats and her feast day is March 17th. She is also the patron saint of gardeners, travelers, widows, recently deceased people, the sick, the poor, the mentally ill, and travelers in search of lodging. St. Patrick’s Day is also being celebrated. There is the parade in New York […]

Ides of March 2018

| March 15, 2018

Today is the anniversary of probably the best practical joke I ever participated in. The History Senior Seminar group ‘stabbed’ our teacher Dr. Burns in front of his freshman history course after about a three-week set up for the deed. I will always treasure the look on his face when we came storming into the […]

Schrodinger’s Storm(s)

| March 13, 2018

The third Nor’easter is slamming into right now. With it we have the potential for a lot of snow with blizzard conditions all through the day. Like the other two storms, there has been a variable in the form of a low pressure system that keeps floating back and forth. If it goes one way, […]

One Hoopy Frood

| March 11, 2018

Today would have been Douglas Adams’ 66th Birthday. He would have probably tweeted something out that would have had us all laughing or being pleased that we were ‘in’ on the joke. My first encounter with his works was not the radio play but the book of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that a friend […]