Entries from November 2006

November 14, 2006

the rain in maine stays mainly in the plain.

Except when it floods the parking lot at work — all due respect to Lerner and Loewe, of course. It rained so hard this morning that it flooded the parking lot near my building as well as the streets in front of and to the left of the building. I hadn’t even been [...]

November 7, 2006

it’s all politics

In case I haven’t mentioned this yet, the mid-term elections are becoming pretty nasty here in Maine. The following picture was taken on the well-traveled secondary road that I drive to work every day:

P.S. Please go out and VOTE Tuesday. The system works best when we participate. And if you’re a Mainer, please consider voting [...]

November 5, 2006

what weekends?

Relaxing weekends are few and far between for us these days. I’m just saying. I think the last one was October 13-15, when we spent Saturday in Rockland at the Farnsworth Art Museum’s current Andrew Wyeth exhibit. Don’t get me wrong — that was great (how can you go wrong when Wyeth is involved?) but [...]