• Books,  Tea

    The Tea Center, Books I’m Reading, and Information Technology Crisis

    The Tea Center Just a few notes from today. My long awaited STASH “tea center” arrived in it’s bamboo container, just like the one we had at work. I added all the specialty tea bags I already had to the mix. I barely got it in and it’s in sections (sort of). After a while of trying to keep I sorted by type of tea (berries, mints, chamomile, chai, green tea, black tea, white tea, etc), I finally had to stick my “Constant Comment” tea anywhere it would fit in the backs of each one, lol. Do you think we are set for a while? The STASH tea is better…

  • Books,  Computer,  Dogs,  Food,  Spiritual

    More Snow, Burrito Brunch, Laptop Fixes, Dog Cuddles, Doubt Crisis, and Books to Read

    We have more snow on the radar heading our way. We have had some big flakes and then small flakes and then big flakes again. We have an advisory out and no mention of any further accumulation. We had some freezing rain yesterday that made our neighborhood streets very icy.  I’m supposed to take Mom for a doc appt and work until then but we’ve decided to just reschedule because it’s dangerous over here and Mom has ice all over her sidewalks so we are not getting her out and I wasn’t driving on ice anyway. So it looks like I’ll just be working from home all day. I texted my boss. She wasn’t sure what…

  • Brewery,  Food,  Nashville,  Shopping,  Travel,  Weekend

    Black Abbey Brewing, Phillips Toy Mart, Trader Joe’s, Half-Priced Book Store, and CoCo’s Italian Market and Restaurant.

    We had a great Saturday excursion. As you know when we plan a special day out, we plan it right. So the deal was to kick off our first big Christmas shopping excursion. We planned a trip all the way to Phillips Toy Mart in Bellevue, but on the way we stopped at Black Abbey. Over a year ago, I think, George was given two extra beer tickets (buy one get one free). We sat inside for a bit and then it warmed up and we moved out side into the crisp cool air and pretty blue skies with fluffy clouds floating by. For the first time it really felt…