Worldgate area in Herndon, VA just got hammered with driving rain and 40-50 knot winds. Visibility is severely restricted (as seen from the 7th floor windows at work) and it looks like traffic on the toll road (VA-267) is stopped for lack of visibility. Get your flashlights and unplug your computers – power is fluctuating […]
I am trying to think of ways to heal the rift between Clinton supporters and Obama supporters, because the most important thing is to defeat John McCain in November. I started this election (years ago) liking first General Wesley Clark, then Senator John Edwards once Clark endorsed Hillary Clinton. When John Edwards dropped out (just […]
I am a spreadsheet neophyte. Many years of extreme proficiency with sed, awk, perl, and korn shell scripting have made spreadsheets not very interesting to me. I am finding myself doing a few repeat tasks over and over and I thought it was time to teach myself a little something new. So I have been […]
Erci and Kate went to the Vintage Virginia Wine Festival with me today. We had some spectacular tastings of James River and Horton and Valhalla wines, then we got drenched in rain. I mean soaked through to our nickers and such that everything in our bags and purses was soaked right through. At one point […]
So I am getting 3-5 calls a day on my cell phone that are caller-id blocked. I have a strict policy that I let such calls go to voicemail. If you need to hide your identity from me when you call, you can talk to my voicemail and not me in person. Problem is, the […]
Sunday is the last day it will be open to the public. They are having a party on Memorial Day, and then you must find another nearby Hard Times for your chilli-fix. Rumors are that the company/person who owns all the property where Hard Times is located is doubling the rents and squeezing businesses out. […]
I have been updating a spreadsheet with delegate and super delegate counts, and projections, and poll data of the remaining states and territories; and for the last couple of weeks RealClearPolitics has been reporting different numbers than DemConWatch pretty consistently. According to RCP, Obama only needs 117 more delegates to win; but according to DemConWatch […]
My damned cough is back, with a vengeance; but this time with other cold and flu symptoms as well. I think this is the most I have been sick in well over 10 years and I do not like it at all. We’ll see what the doctor has to say about it this time. In […]
Erci makes some of the best mead I’ve ever had, and after several years of hiatus, she just started fermenting a couple of batches of the good stuff. One is made from BlackCap honey and wine yeast; and the other with Cranberry honey and champaign yeast. Both honeys are from The Bee Folks out of […]
While reading Andrew Sullivan this morning, I ran across a link to this video, which is not for people afraid of heights: http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562 Cool music too…
