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I had a great Thanksgiving weekend in Philadelphia with my special friend Kate — we went to see the Christmas display at Longwood Gardens, learned to dance James Brown-style from this cat named Lenny at Vincent’s Jazz Bar in West Chester (more about that another time,) and went to the 15th Annual Turkey Pro Motorcycle…

For the past couple of months, I’ve been having “Aroma Corporate Cleaning” come by on alternate Tuesdays and clean my apartment. It’s kind of expensive (seventy bucks) — two people come by for a couple of hours, which seems like a lot of person-power for one small place. So I talked to Jennifer, the nice…

This was found by my uncle Laird in my grandmother’s 1927 yearbook from The Tutoring School; she was a junior. TREES Although the personality of a tree varies with the individual, each variety has its special characteristics. Take the poplar trees, for instance. As a whole, they are inclined to be a little nervous. They…

The verdict? My “Hot or Not” rating is… 1.4, out of a possible 10! That means that I just barely edged out this guy! Having touched off a 24-hour “Hot or Not” craze at work, I now know that there are lots of rules on the site: Men with shirts on rarely break 3 Lots…

Am I hot or not? What about when I have a fake chin beard, a cigarette holder, a monocle, spats, and a sword? Rate me at http://www.amihotornot.com! I got this link from my friend Dan Check, who you can rate here. His halloween costume is a “gay cowboy,” though I think he looks like a…

(Of course, at the same time, I’ve been reading the last of the Harry Flashman books that I haven’t already, Flashman’s Lady. ) I’ll probably go home and finish the book now.

Whew, I just got finished making changes to the page. I bought a cheap-ass Visioneer scanner especially to make updates to this site over the weekend, and it seems to work okay if you scan things at a high enough resolution and then fiddle with the levels, run a sharpening mask, et cetera.

I got on the elevator in the middle of the morning, to find four or five stockbrokers from the ninth floor in their shirtsleeves talking about the recent economy. “My son is six month old today. The day he was born was the last time I made any money.” “It’s a good thing I only…