Last Thursday we big Barre goodbye. It was a great place to live and I’ll certainly miss it. If only work would have agreed to relocate there. Alas, it was not meant to be. Anyway, we turned our keys over to the new owner and hope that the joint treats her as well (or better) […]
At the moment, A. and I are (for all practical purposes) homeless. We met a guy (Eric) last night who believe that it will make a funny story in about five years or so. Good lord do I hope he is right. Anyway, at the moment we’re scrambling to make sense of the miscommunications that […]
Thursday evening it seemed that we’d never get moved and then Friday everything sort of collapsed in on itself and we discovered that we had about 5 or 6 days to wrap everything up. (EEK!) That said, A. & I are now in a mad scramble to cross our various t’s and dot the various […]
Via /.: Central Vermont Public Service has launched Cow Power, a system by which power users can opt to buy 25, 50, or 100% of their electricity from dairy farms that run generators on methane obtained from cow manure. Cow Power costs only 4 cents/kWh more than market price, so a household like mine would […]
Spent a large chunk of my Independence Day in the car… Decided to hike Mt. Independence — a historic Revolutionary War site here in Vermont — but underestimated the drive time. 90 minutes? Nope. Try two hours each way. (Ugh.) No major complaints there though — the drive was certainly scenic (though I believe that […]
Too much going on here at the home front. Moving ish is taking its toll. What with “the complications” and all. (If you don’t know, don’t ask…) The past couple weeks have been hellishly exhausting though, that’s the one thing that is for 100% certain. No end of work on the Work front (which I […]
In a “that’s where I know you from” moment: reading the 28-June cover story in Seven Days (“Bombs Away” by Cathy Resmer), I get to this passage: Why would he want to live in an underground missile facility? “Who wouldn’t?” asks the cheeky Aussie. “The cool factor is just unbelievable.” Michael spends six weeks each […]
Damn but Flickr is fast… Caught a plug on B^2 yesterday for a Flickr pool called “Stick Figures In Peril” and decided to add my shot (above) of the sledders’ warning sign at Hubbard Park. A few hours later, it became my second most viewed photo. Neat. currently playing: Liz Phair “Divorce Song”
A. & I hit Wrightsville Reservoir today. I think this was our third time paddling there but the first time we managed to find our way down to the waterfall…: See the whole set in my Flickr stream… Honorary mentions that didn’t make the highlight reel: my pseudo-panoramic of the falls and our “vessel inspection” […]