I spent much of the day entranced by the inauguration. I’m sure I wasn’t alone. I’ve seen a few inaugurations now, and I confess that I felt, well, a little emotional to witness what happened today. True, I voted for our new President, and I cannot deny the sweeping feeling …
I took the Hobbit to the Charleston Fire Department Museum today. We had a great time checking out the fire trucks and listening to how this is a fire danger and that’s a fire danger and, well, everything is a bloody fire danger. Still, it was fun. The young master …
I’ve been barricaded in my home office most of the day, trying to get as much work done on the Brunanburh book as I can, but I know that the Corps has returned to campus. How? Well, I heard the gentle notes of a bugle a few minutes ago, sounding …
The cordless drill that I’d received as a wedding present years ago — about the only thing among the towels and plates and what-not that I was able to claim as definitively manly and therefore mine — unceremoniously croaked about two months ago. Immediately, eight things around the house needed …
I have a speaker-dock in the office for my trusty iPod Touch, but more often than not I find myself listening to streaming music via Pandora instead. Why? Well, mostly because it continues to find me great music I’d otherwise never hear. My main Pandora “radio station” is built around …