Ascending the learning curve

My ukulele finally arrived yesterday. It is no longer experiencing an exception, in UPS-speak.
And it’s lovely, and I’m very happy with it, and my fingertips are already very tender from trying to play it.
The cats are enthralled. All I have to do is start fumbling around with it, and I have an attentive feline audience. [...]

No, it never stops raining in Seattle. Ever.

Between pouring rain and snowmelt following the Christmas storms, western Washington State is a mess.
Seattle, at the moment, is an island. Both I-5 and I-90, the major freeways into the Puget Sound region, have been shut down, and probably will not re-open until Saturday or Sunday. Long stretches of I-5 are under floodwaters, and I-90 [...]

New Year, new goals, new blog

So I’m down to the last hour or so of 2008, and, as I’ve been doing since October, I’m thinking about what I want to accomplish in 2009.
I don’t make the kind of resolutions most people make (lose weight, go to the gym, get organized). After all, I’m not broken, wayward, or degenerate. I don’t [...]