There's this constant battle in my head regarding Wyden running again between please don't let yourself become a corpse propped up by your staff and it'll be such a loss when you retire.

I do enjoy seeing how big of a pile of frozen discs of birdbath water I get before they melt away. Little pleasures of winter, I guess.

Little around here gets touched by the sun (but definitely gets licked by icy winds) until at least March, so when things get icy it tends to stick around all day unless the temps really get up there. At least the hilly driveway gets morning sun, but not so much the road it exits onto.

Greenland?

Gdi Salinas.

I keep wondering if Rayfield is looking to primary her.

American high school marching band played "Rock 'n' Roll Part 2" during the London Parade on NYD and I just thought oh no, not that one.

Pretty sure it's equally (if not more) my fellow lead-poisoned GenXers.

I'm not sure how I feel about knowing which family this is just from this info alone.

Huh. I'm guessing that's a very local thing, as I grew up not terribly far from there and I can't recall ever hearing that pronunciation.

I kind of miss the days when I could drop the Log Lady into a conversation as a (judgy, yes, and snobby, yes) guide to how cool the person I was speaking to was.