So, we moved into the new house permanently over a year ago. I have all my books, CDs, DVDs, etc. boxed up still. My library. Or at least the half of my library that survived… 

OK, this must be my Muse trying to get my attention, because I’ve run across this message several times over the last two days. It seems like everywhere I turn I’m getting some variation of… 

Sorry about the radio silence yesterday, my Hordeling. I was just too tired to get anything put together last night. So, a while back I had to give up drinking my weekly Dr. Pepper, for… 

My parents lived in Fredericksburg, Texas, out in the Hill Country north of Austin. They had found it somehow when my Dad was working as a geologist for Shell Oil. They bought some land out… 

I have a very large collection of fortune cookie fortunes. You know, those little pieces of paper with a witty / wise saying on them that come in a little bent cookie that you get… 

OK, well, fan, singular. And not one of mine, yet. Let me explain. Several weeks back I took wife to her dermatology appointment. While we were waiting for the doctor to come in to see… 

Sugar Bear was the wife’s previous Siberian Husky. He measured six feet long from tip of his nose to the end of his tail. He passed away several years ago. He was a good dog.… 

Back when I was living in my last apartment I had a Ford Ranger truck. She was red, the smallest truck Ford made, and she got me reliably from point A to point B. I… 

Sirocco has take to getting me up in the middle of the night, anytime between 4:00 AM to 6:30 AM. Whenever one of the dogs gets me up in the middle of the night I… 

So, today there was a total solar eclipse across Greenland, Iceland, and Northern Spain. Other places on Planet Earth had partial eclipses. Here in my area we had some cloud cover at the time so…