Out here in Holland, we got hail. Lots of it. So much so that 5 hours later there were still piles of it around the yard.
No noticeable damage other than to our corn stalks which got knocked over, and and handful of tomatoes got knocked off the plants.
I’ve been patiently waiting to get FiOS, Verizon’s new fiber optic residential network, since February. It’s really bugging me because I know they ran fiber to a box on the corner of my lot last year, but they’re still not offering the service to me yet. Anyways… Verizon stockholders weren’t too pleased when Verizon disclosed…
Two quick snapshots of San Babila – which after two trips to Milan, I still have yet to go inside.
Before both the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary, I noticed a rise in a new type of spam – fake blogs causing Google alerts to send not-so-subliminal political messages: Google Blogs Alert for: Buffalo Central Terminal Bill Clinton Photo Gallery By admin They’re staying at (we’re not devising this up) Tiggywinkles Animal hillary…
Speaking of the Skyway… since winter has officially ended, let’s tally up Skyway closings. We had an early unprecedented storm in October that resulted in widespread driving bans, yet no official Skyway closings. We had another late start to winter, but then had a pounding of snow and frigid temperatures. For the second year in…
I just caught this article in the Snooze a couple days ago: David, a high school senior from Amherst, stood before the judge and boldly told him of the high-stakes Texas Hold ‘Em game he and his teenage friends had played. “The biggest pot was $1,500, maybe $2,000,” David said of the poker he and…