It’s hard thinking of things to write here since I don’t ever really leave the house. That leaves only my personal thoughts, which I try to stay away from publishing on a blog with my name on it.
It’s raining snowing in Missoula and the locals have all gone into shock since the sun disappeared around [...]
The sun has finally returned to Missoula, although unlike just about everyone else here I can’t say I’d gotten my fill of winter yet. I didn’t get much of a chance to enjoy the balmy temperatures and blazing bright desert (yes, technically) sun at first, having to work all day Saturday and then being stuck [...]
Flu, that is, which I’m just getting over. We moved into the new house and then promptly succumbed, Amy first and then — just long enough later that I began to think perhaps I was immune — I went down, too. There’s an immunological point of interest here. Amy had received her flu vaccine, while [...]
I am sitting in a canoe chair (those little legless collapsible seats also known by the brand name “Crazy Creek”) in the master bedroom of our new house as I type this, having arrived here about an hour ago to make use of the land line phone to record an interview that now appears to [...]
Funny how it can all come crashing down. At 10:30, fresh from a conference call with a new client about the next step of a challenging and interesting project, I was feeling great — upbeat, proud of how much I’ve learned (from scratch) about a complicated technical subject in the last couple of days, brimming [...]
Maybe.
I’ve let this space languish in favor of my new gig over at New West, called Missoula Notebook (and if you haven’t read and commented on my latest over there, you must be the only one on the planet), but I’m in the mood to jot a few notes here again and start putting up [...]
Wasps keep getting into the house. Big, nasty-looking wasps. We find them crawling disconsolately on the sliding door to the deck, or sometimes on the living-room window. They must be weak, ready to die, because they often do. Right now there are four dead wasps in the tracks of A.’s office windows and the deck [...]
On Friday it finally dawned on me that, for all the locals’ talk about recent winters being “much warmer than usual,” winter here will be nothing to take lightly.
As I’ve mentioned, it’s been getting cool already, temperatures dropping into the thirties at night and rising back into the fifties — occasionally maybe only the [...]