It occurs to me, looking through these posts, that I’ve been no fun lately.  Sometimes I think I’ve been no fun for years, but I don’t have the patience to go looking for that many blog posts. And, to tell you the truth, I’m not feeling all that upbeat today, either, although I at least…

Okay, I couldn’t think of a decent post title this morning–sometimes it gets like that. And I have been thinking a lot about the next part of the Defense, which starts with the Enlightenment and goes from there.  In an odd way, that big blackout came at just the right time–I had just gotten to…

I’m a little worried about the state of the blog posts today–the office is cold, and the Internet connection is doing what it does sometimes, where it’s not sure it really wants to be functioning, or something. At any rate, it is functioning, for the next nanosecond, and so I’ll try to go from there. …

Yes, it’s my older son’s birthday, and he is getting what he expressly requested–a day in which he does not have to leave the house, no party or singing, a chocolate cake, and control of the one television in this house so that he can watch his Burns and Allen Vol 1 and 2 collection…

So, I had a bad day at work today, which makes me rather grumpy–but all the better to take on Michael’s posted article. Let me start off by saying that, as a liberatarian by temperament and–well, I’d call it long hard thinking, except that this article assures me that I’m incapable of thinking, because if…

So, here’s the thing. I decided, absolutely, that there was going to be a blog post today.  I even had things I wanted to talk about.  It’s just that it’s really hard for me to write anything else after a day when the fiction has gone well.  It’s as if my mind is working to…

So, it’s nearly Christmas, and for those of you who have been reading this for a while, it’s also obviously my annual hector-you-until-you-feel-guilty post.   I have no idea how many of you actually feel guilty, and how many of those who do go and do something about it–but I figure, every little bit helps. First,…

At all. I didn’t even leave the driveway. And it’s very odd, but for the last couple of days I’ve been doing really good work, and a lot of it, more of it than I usually do.  I have no idea how long that is going to last, but I’ve got my fingers crossed. In…

So. The papers and exams are graded and all but one set of grades is handed in.  I’ll do that tomorrow, probably, when I feel less like  having a fit about it.  And that brings me to this morning, which is kind of nice at the moment.  I can look out the windows of my…

Not ridiculously cold, mind you.  And today, I’ve got to get my grades up and running, and some paperwork filled out, and then tomorrow I have one last session to get through.  It’s very early in the morning, but it’s already caused a mess up where I had to ask a friend to retrieve my…