Given my ample declarations that I’m living as far north as I ever want to live—partially because of general qualities of populace, but more because of winter—it might surprise you to learn that under certain circumstances, I believe I’d enjoy living in Alaska. (“Certain circumstances” mostly being I’d have enough money to make dealing with … Read more
Look who was waiting for me when I came out to lunch today! This is a species of Magicicada, and part of Brood XIX. It just hatched, almost certainly this week, from an egg laid in 1998. How cool is that? They’ll only be here about a month, and they don’t bite, sting, spit, or … Read more
Our wedding anniversary was Tuesday. Thanks for an inspiring and fulfilling first 14 years, Lea. I love you. I’ve allowed my effort to get traction at work after the unplanned hiatus to take much too much of my bandwidth. I have to get tornado recovery back into the mix to a larger degree. Three days … Read more