A Cry for Help

I got a nice treat this morning as the front page of the ProJo featured a story and a large picture of Rhode Island beekeepers. Mark Robar is putting together a queen rearing operation to raise queens suited for the Ocean State’s climate (almost all our queens now come from Georgia, South Carolina and other [...]

I’m constantly noticing signs that I’m getting old*. All the Red Sox rookies are younger than me, I think the kids these days are degenerates, and WBRU’s “retro lunch” is completely comprised of singles that I distinctly remember being “screamers of the week” (new music). And today I ran across a good one:
Greg, he writes [...]

I am poor pragmatic, so I use the library to get almost all my books. This usually works out really well, you go online, find a book, click a button and they send it to your local branch. Easy.
Sometimes, though, I want a book that’s popular, and the waiting list is 40 people deep (apparently [...]

After months of flirting with the idea, Em and I finally cut the cord. Or, more precisely, the coaxial cable. This week we returned our digital high def DVR cable box to the mothership (Warwick Mall) and bid adios to Cox Cable*.
Now, after hearing other people’s stories about what happened when they threatened to cut [...]

I love to read. There’s usually a pile of library books in my living room that I never have enough time to read. And though it seems like my borrowing habits lean heavily towards the non-fiction section, I do love stories.
Probably because of that aforementioned lack of time, I like short stories quite a bit [...]

Ah, nice to see the Sox in the win column. Pitching looked pretty freaking good (though I did miss some middle innings to watch Lost) and JD Drew is leading a nice bit of early season offense. Sweet.
The only thing that spoils a solid blowout win on the road is the morons who think that [...]

Knocking off an hour early from work to watch the Sox, free coffee from Main Street’s UN-pretentious coffee shop, homemade salsa and Red Hook’s spring beer waiting at home. It’s a good day.
And while I write this, Big Papi’s first RBI of 2007. A really good day, indeed.
UPDATE: ok, well the whole “good things” stuff [...]