BurningbirdIt started out cool, with ice pellets, sleet, and mild frozen rain. Then it got colder, and I expected snow. Ah ha, though. The warm front from the Gulf had other ideas, pushing back into our area, and actually warming it up again. Just enough to keep it hovering at freezing. What does that mean? […]
The winter storm didn’t miss us this time. It’s cold, down to your bones, cold. My roommate just called, and he estimated it will be another 3 or more hours on the freeway home. This is just the frozen rain, and sleet. We haven’t even had the major storm yet, with all the snow later […]
Dumping photo disc. The birthday cake my roommate got me last week. Zoe, giving me the ‘eye’. Squirrel nest and today’s first frozen rain.
The discussion thread just mentioned in the last story is also a good demonstration of what can happen when newspapers and other localized publications open up discussion threads. In particular, the St. Louis Today site, which runs its weblogs using WordPress, doesn’t put much in the way of restrictions on comments. What’s happened is a group of […]
An update on my recent difficulty with Amazon: I received the product, but the company still showed it as ‘in process’, to be shipped in January. It took four emails and finally a phone call to get this one removed so that I wouldn’t get shipped another. On the other hand, when we opened the second season […]