It Happened to Me

Palm trees and a puffy vest

My friends in my old home town, Toronto, won’t find Tampa’s current temperatures cold, but by local standards, it’s downright frigid.…

6 hours ago

Hey, Tampa Bay: An Emotional Support Canadian is closer than you think!

Buy me a birthday beer and hey, you’ll have emotional support aplenty.

3 months ago

23rd blogaversary!

I’ve been at this “blogging” thing since the start of November 2001, which makes this my 23rd blogaversary! StatCounter stats…

3 months ago

An underappreciated “Billy Idol” gem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2GSBEcOKo0 In my dream last night, I heard a song I haven’t listened to in ages: The Dead Next Door,…

3 months ago

Hurricane Milton post #14: Good thing I didn’t put away the generator!

As Murphy’s Law would have it, moments after posting yesterday that I hadn’t yet put away our generator just in…

3 months ago

Hurricane Milton post #13: I haven’t put away the generator yet

Here’s “Lil’ Red,” a generator we bought from a friend of the family a few years back, which I have…

3 months ago

Hurricane Milton post #12: You don’t need a drone, just a pole and a phone!

Tap to view at full size. A day or two after Hurricane Milton tore its way through town, someone posted…

3 months ago

Hurricane Milton post #11: Clean-up

Tap to view at full size. A good chunk of today was devoted to cleaning up all the tree and…

4 months ago