Month: February 2019

Sunrise is 6:30, so technically I got up after sunrise. The clouds are thick this morning, and there was a slight dusting overnight, so I am not seeing the sun itself. My car has fairy dust sprinkled on it, and should easily be cleaned off before I go anywhere. It’s already above freezing, so any…

Happy President’s Day. Let’s…buy a car? Other than we need a day off in the winter, is there a true reason for President’s Day? We celebrated Washington and Lincoln’s birthdays back in the day – don’t know if either was a real holiday ( school vacation generally fell around Washington’s “real” birthday – February 22).…

It’s coming on Valentine’s Day. Hmm, it’s been around a long time, and not just as a Hallmark day. Started out, naturally, as a Saint’s Day (or 2 or 3 – lots of Valentinus were running around back in the day). Like most old saints, they were killed for their religious devotion, and not because…

My son and his wife are vacationing in Costa Rica. We’ve been getting pictures of the beautiful resort they’re staying in and photos of the wildlife they’ve seen (an ocelot, sloths, snakes, etc.). We visited Costa Rica back in 2015, and we were very impressed (even me, who hates it when it gets too hot.…

Hey, you know how I threaten to post on occasional Wednesdays? This is occasional Wednesday – February 6, 2019. Got some jazz tunes for y’all to listen to today. So take some time and tap your feet to Dave Pike, Peggy Lee, Alphonse Mouzon, Art Tatum & Ben Webster, Elvin Jones, Art Farmer, Fred Hersch,…

The Super Bowl is today. Here’s what will happen: one team will win, and the fans will be happy. One team will lose, and the fans of that team will think that they were robbed. There will be a bad call by the referees. This may be used as the reason that the team lost…