So.  2021.  It's been, once again, a hell of a year. I just saw word that Betty White had passed, and we're all, rightfully, a bit p...

Hi all!   I hope your Christmas went well.   We had a good few days of festivities.  Thursday was Santa With Muscles Day, which... really, ...

Merry Christmas, y'all.  May your day be a good one.  May you spend time today talking to those you love, in person or in any of the myr...

Hey!  Here's just over an hour of carefully selected Christmas tunes for you to rock to all month long. Play 'em in order and hav...

Long time pal and now PodCast contributor, JuanD, goes under the nom-de-plume Chromaplastique when it comes to penning tunes.  He's a lo...

May the Queen of Halloween bid you an Excellent All Hallows Eve Well, 2021 is in the books at our house.  And we had a good one.   Halloween...

Watched:  09/09/2021 Format:  BluRay Viewing:  Unknown (well over 30x) Decade:  1990's Director:  Coen Bros. For more ways to listen Jim...

this probably isn't my store, but it's incredibly similar My first two jobs were working for cartoon mice. The first job, when I was...

It's been a while since I posted even an image to mention 9/11 on this blog.   I was 26 when the planes flew into the World Trade Center...

Hi. I kind of figure the folks who follow this blog know me a little.  I've been doing this since 2003.  I've published something li...

Watched:  04/19/2021 Format:  BluRay - version - The Final Cut Viewing:  Unknown Decade:  1980's Director:  Ridley Scott For more ways t...

  Today, very, very suddenly, we lost Scout, our dog of about 11 years . I am definitely still processing what happened, and I expect the wa...

29.3 million cases of COVID.   Now over 530,000 dead as of 11:37 PM on 03/11/2021. Since I quit writing posts we had an election, and Trump ...

Well, Texas being Texas, it's now a high of 70-something degrees.  Skies are blue, and this is the weather people from out of state get ...

yesterday afternoon, the snow lost its charm Well, Jamie finally got to dialysis.  You can read her account of the past week here . With the...

Scout ponders the inevitable slowing of all atomic motion If you're on the outside of the freeze occurring in our Southern States - and,...

the neighborhood pond is frozen over Since I was in college, way, way back in the 1990's, I've heard nothing but how the power grid ...

Scout figures out snow We're in the middle of a rough winter storm.  Polar vortex nonsense. Click here for pictures Honestly, it's b...

For a long time I've been somewhat nervous about the hosting of the Signal Watch PodCast solely at SoundCloud.  Look, SoundCloud is a go...