Alkahest

Last week (on Inauguration Day no less), we got about 7″ of snow out at the house.  I just uploaded the pictures this morning.  Some of my favorites are below, the rest are in the gallery.

If nothing else, the dogs sure did seem to enjoy the snow. 

Can anyone please explain to me, what the hell is John Boener doing on my TV and in my newspapers talking about the stimulus plan?  For 8 years, we liberal types were told that “elections had consequences” and that we should STFU and clap louder.  Fine, now that republicans have been repudiated in a full [...]

It’s noon – congratulations to President Obama!!

It looks like we’re going to get our first real snowfall in about five years.  “Real” if you count 2-4 inches, which I do since K and I are from Louisiana.
Unfortunately, while I was grocery shopping this weekend, I forgot a few things and needed to go pick ‘em up on my way home from [...]

A couple of weeks ago at a Geek Beer, we were discussing Roland Burris and the likelihood of him being seated by the senate.  My take was that of course he would be seated.  No one has ever paid a price for going against Harry Reid.
Told ya so.

Using a bit of leftover birthday money, I bought some new camera equipment.  Nothing particularly sexy like a big long lens (what do you mean by homoerotic?).  I bought a set of carbon fiber tripod legs that weigh about 3 pounds instead of the 6 pounds of my old tripod legs – that should make [...]