I finished reading Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Jitney, two plays by August Wilson. They were my reading assignment for Black History Month this year. I posted my reactions to them as a comment on Sister Judy’s blog at Mrs Hammer’s House: The Black History Month Contest. And thanks, Judy, for calling me Brother Dean …
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Cool Car
About a month ago there was a user conference here at work, that is, a conference for users of our product. In conjunction with it, the company arranged with a customer to display something nifty they had designed using our product — an Indy Car. Photos were encouraged. When I see it on TV on …
Driveway view
The sky was particularly beautiful just before sunset in Casco last Sunday. By the time I ran outside with my camera the clouds had closed up a little and the colors weren’t so nice. I settled for a picture looking down the driveway towards the lake, about 300 feet away.
New Year card
Here, three weeks after the event, is my Chinese New Year postcard. The jumping dog was drawn from in image on the internet; the flaming hoop was drawn freehand out of my imagination (except that the circle was computer-generated); the Chinese characters for “Year of the Dog” and “Happy New Year” were carved from text …
Who’s he?
This was one of the funnier pieces of mail I’ve got in a long time. The name is something I was called occasionally in junior high school.
Mitten progress
So for anyone who hopes this is a part-time knit blog, here I hope is a progress picture of a pair of mittens I’m making from Lopi-Lite. Fabric Place in Woburn, which was two (three? who cares) stops up 128 from where I used to work from July to October, had their Lite-Lopi on sale …
Bread
So I guess what I did this evening was go food shopping, fix and upgrade this blog (it was down for 24 hours, give or take one), and baked a batch of potato-sour cream bread. That’s a recipe from a recent book. It’s a recipe that’s good enough to buy the book for, if you …
Yay, it’s back!
I was worried for a while there! This morning I did a full backup of the database, and could see all my old posts, so I knew that what I had written wasn’t lost. I didn’t know how hard it would be to get the whole thing running again. Turned out, it wasn’t.
Snow
Now it finally looks like winter again, after all the unseasonably warm weather we’ve had since mid-January. I measured 14 1/2 inches in our front yard in Newton, only half as much as New York City got. The news was saying that this snowfall had surpassed the 1947 snow in New York. I remember waist-deep …
Grouse
Blogging about a grouse, not grousing about a blog. Just to be clear. Up in Casco — I looked up from the jigsaw puzzle of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse that we’ve almost finished (we started it last weekend but couldn’t finish it in one weekend) to see a bird running across the grass (OK, the …