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Since we haven’t talked about the animals in a while…

Smoky is doing much better.  It’s strange to see how much weight he has lost since he got really sick.  He seems so much happier now.  You can actually see some of his little bald patches filling in...

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Harborfest is over

And it has been a very, very busy week for me, between the two jobs and police details. I worked a lot at my two jobs, working pretty much every day during Harborfest.  For those of you not from the...

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This is why other drivers scare me

While on our way to visit my sister and her family in New Hampster, Kelly and I were unfortunate enough to be stuck behind a car that started driving a bit erratically.   Then things really got crazy....

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I am not a baker

And wow, is that a good thing.  Not only can I not bake well, I cannot even decorate baked goods well.   Evidence to follow. I had a training class tonight at the Cambridge Police station and so once...

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U.S. military trains for zombie fighting

In time for Halloween, the military put on a joint training exercise that features…  a zombie attack.  While I am amused to no end, I do respect the attempts by the government to get people interested...

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About that whole “chicken little” thing

New England weather is notoriously unpredictable.  Even with the vast improvements in technology and knowledge, no forecaster is going to be able to predict the weather with absolute certainty,...

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Boy, winter sure came early

Mark Twain had a lot of wonderful witty things to say about New England weather, and the most relevant  (and true) for today would certainly be this one, from a speech he gave in 1876: One of the...

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Possible blizzard coming

The possibility of snow this weekend went from possible snow earlier in the week to winter storm watch to blizzard watch today as the weather forecast for Thursday through Saturday was refined by...

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“That won’t happen.” Well, sometimes it does.

If you count my time in uniform, I have worked in public safety for a while.  I have also worked on business continuity/disaster recovery planning committees.  I am probably more well read on much of...

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Now this is really feeling surreal

[ETA to make some additions and corrections - Geoff] I honestly am just in shock now. As if the events in Boston have not brought enough insanity to our world, now the last 12 hours have taken the...

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Send some love to Keytar Bear

If you live in the Boston area, odds are at some point you have seen Keytar Bear performing in or near an MBTA station.  He’s one of those quirky things about Boston that I love so much. But he will...

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The World Cup, Dinner and Wardrobe Choices

So here’s a story about something that happened to us a while ago when the U.S. played Portugal in the World Cup. That day (June 22nd) was also the day that we had the Greater Boston Day of Portugal...

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GRRM, Neil Gaiman, Paul & Storm… so much geek awesomeness concentrated in one...

I think there may have actually been danger of having some sort of geek singularity of awesomeness form on stage. But before I tell you what I am talking about, some context. As I mentioned previously,...

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2015 has been kicking my ass

Regular readers will recall that a little while back I said we’d be away for a while due to the death of a friend.  Truth be told, his loss was, at the time, the latest in a long string of Very Hard...

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