We all realize that opera has grown from a personal luxury to a national necessity. Mrs. August Belmont (from the very first fundraising appeal for Metropolitan Opera on the air)
And it’s a THIRD snow day!
Finally, it’s winter for real 🙂 The schools have really been hit hard this week – holiday on Monday, snow day on Tuesday, 2-hour delay on Wednesday, and another snow day today! Today is supposed to be the end of …
Winter with a Vengeance
It’s actually nice to have some real winter weather for a change. Â I get a perverse pleasure out of hearing New Englanders boast about how hard winters are here and then turn around and whine when it really happens. Â Personally, …
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward. Lewis Carroll
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. Alfred Hitchcock
Water Woes
Ever since we moved into our house twelve years ago, we’ve had an occasional problem with a tiny water spot on the kitchen ceiling. Â It’s not a big deal, it just means that the tub spigot in the bathroom above …
Here’s the crazy piled up snow on the grill, and the 4-foot high backyard fence which has just about 2 feet showing! The snow has almost stopped now, and I think we’re going to be very close to 20" from …
Looks like a foot or so overnight, and it’s still snowing and windy here! It seems as though the forecast was accurate, and we’ll end up with 16" or so by the time this is done. The dog is NOT …
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia. Charles M. Schulz
TOGAF – it’s what I’m doing now
TOGAF – No, it’s not some new Doctor Who villain. It stands for The Open Group Architecture Framework, and my company is getting up to speed on it in order to determine how to best modify TOGAF for our own …