Twitter Transcripts from Thanksgiving

After losing tons of audio posts when using a third party podcasting system a few years ago I have become very gunshy about keeping anything really important on any system other than one that I own myself.  Since my Twitter feed has become so critical (I am still thinking about moving that to a system …

September 19, 2008: TGI Long Weekend

63 Days to Baby Day! (31 Weeks Pregnant) “Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.” – Benjamin Franklin in a letter to Andre Morellet. I had …

July 27, 2008: Glass Explosion

If you ever need a laugh at the expense of cruelly tortured children, spend some time at Not Without My Handbag’s Guide to Bad Baby Names.  You will cry with laughter and, we hope, sympathy. We slept in a little today but nothing like yesterday.  Dominica was up around ten or so.  I always get …

Manned Orbiting Laboratory MOL

In 1963 the United States Air Force announced that it would begin work on a project called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory or MOL, as it was commonly known.  The idea of the project was initially to determine the efficacy of putting American military personnel into space.  The cold war was near its peak and the …

Sonic Brass at Brick Presbyterian Church

Sonic Brass goes to their second performance on their “Tour 1993” this time going to Brick Prebyterian Church in Perry, NY. Joe Howlett and Nathan Parker both attend church at Brick and we all met there back in 1983 when I started attending there. So we thought that it would be appropriate to make that …