I saw this article, “We Must Fight To Stop Prejudice” (link dead), in the Newark (Ohio) Advocate, and as far as I can tell, this person is mad because someone is flying the Confederate Battle Flag in their vicinity. While the link between the Battle Flag and racism is debatable, there are certain points that [...]
It seems we are back in business. Power was actually restored around 11:30pm on the 26th. I started to move our stuff back from the in-laws on the 27th, when the power went out about 2pm again and was gone the rest of the afternoon. Just as we packed up our things and left for [...]
Necessary Roughness is on forced hiatus at the moment. I got caught in the central Ohio ice storm, and my house has had neither power nor heat since about midnight of the 22nd. We have no clear estimate from American Electric Power as to when we will get power back, but broadcast estimates have been [...]
Over ten years ago (let’s date myself here), the choir and orchestra at University of Missouri-Rolla performed J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. It remains to this day one of my favorite pieces of Christmas music. We had sung it in English, but it sounds just as gut auf Deutsch. I cannot recommended this highly enough; unfortunately [...]
I normally don’t like to stay at extended stay hotels; some of them have rooms that NEED cleaning every day. This one was better.
