Oh internet, my internet

So someone asked me if I was done with my blog. Au contrair, I think about it all the time. But when I think about what I would write I get a little ranty in my head and then I never come here and write it down. Later, I think 'phew' thank goodness I never committed that train(wreck) of thought to the permanence of the internet. However, is that not what the internet was founded on? Seriously, before online commerce and 24 hour news, and family web sites, there was just ranting. And porn. There is not gonna be any porn here so that leaves me with good old fashioned cranky opinions.

Actually, I feel pretty good lately as we have had an amazing three straight days of sunshine. I made the most of one of them by raking all the leaves in the universe. The other days I made sure to sit out on the back deck for a little while to get some vitamin D.

We are back in the globe now though. The cloud ceiling is so low its like living at the bottom of a bowl of cold mashed potatoes. At least it hasn't snowed enough to stick yet. Up north of us I know there has been several inches already. It's the time of year when everyone pulls back into their houses, turtling until spring. At 4pm when full dark hits there is no reason to be out and nowhere to go. I've talked with others about how its an effort to go anywhere at night and life becomes a cycle of work, home, work. I can't let that happen this year.

On the Utica news front, every time I look at the paper I see something stupid. "Utica schools discover food in New Hartford warehouse". You really couldn't make this stuff up. The old director of operations retired and disappeared as per usual around here and some other bureaucrat randomly stumbled across an old cache of frozen foods belonging to the school district at a local cold storage warehouse. When the outgoing guy retired, he took all knowledge of this months old frozen food with him. How long has it been there? Who knows? "a while" They are serving it up to the kids! Don't worry though: "Muller said the food still was fresh because it was frozen." Yum, freezer burn. The school district will also be changing up the foods the kids eat more often because it "gives a flavor to the menu.” Yesssss, a flavor.

On the book front: sucky. Ebay sales are down because I am working through a stack of books that seem to have very little appeal. Amazon is not so great because I am unlisting more books than I am listing. Getting rid of the crap. Books bought this month: 2, both sold. Shockingly, out of the blue, I sold one of my special books off of my ridiculously poorly designed web site. The lady in Switzerland was so nice and not at put out at my broken links, she must have really wanted that book.