I just watched “The Big Lebowski” again. I was going to watch it last night, but I discovered my VCR was dead. My mom thinks it was killed by some sort of power surge as it has hardly been used. It wasn’t one of our recent storms, but rather died while I was in China. No one had noticed until now…

Yesterday, yes yesterday, we had a large family dinner at my mother’s house. It was a potluck, but still as the hosts we had to do more than our share of preparation. I never had to cook anything, but I did get up at 7am to start cleaning and setting up…

Today I went and picked up an unexpected package at the Bowser post office. My sister said it was something I bought online, but the only thing I’ve purchased online recently was Citizen Marketers which was delivered to my door, or at least our post office box. I joked it was a subpoena, but my mom said it wasn’t registered mail. Then I remembered an email I received saying members of the Supersuckers fan club would be getting something in the mail…

During our recent epic power outage I had even more time to think. One of the things I thought about was a story about the late great Townes Van Zandt…

The Storms of November brought more snow and were more unexpected, but the storms of December had stronger gusts of wind and knocked out our power for longer…