Winter weather, minus the snow

This past week we have had some pretty cold days, even for Boston.  Since Monday the temperature has not gotten above freezing at all.  In fact, it hasn’t even climbed out of the teens for the last couple of days, and with the wind chills it has felt more like -10 degrees Fahrenheit or so, especially at night, when it has consistently dropped down into single digits.  Last night it got down to 1.  And tonight it will get that cold again.  Meanwhile during the day the wind chill keeps things quite chilly even when the sun is out.

But we still haven’t had any significant snow this winter.

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I met David Sedaris, again.

The first time I met David Sedaris was at a book signing several years ago.  I met him again in 2010 when Geoff and I saw him read and sign Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk at the Harvard Book Store.  Last Tuesday I worked a private event for the book store in which I got to spend about an hour and a half just sitting and chatting with David Sedaris.

Yes, there are times when my life is awesome.

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Upcoming concerts, auditions, and other events

Hi folks.  It’s that time again.  Spring music making in Boston is almost upon us.  I’ve been receiving a lot of mail lately about audition opportunities and upcoming concerts.  Some of these I’ll repost individually later as the date of the concert approaches.

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This is not the post I was going to write

That post is longer and will be coming up in the next day or two.  But, this caught my attention as I was reading Boston.com and cleaning up my inbox today and I thought I’d share.  Personally, I’m a little disappointed they didn’t get away with it.

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Snow on the way again

We managed to get all the way up to 54 degrees Fahrenheit or so today.  But the temperature has already dropped down to 35 degrees now, and the low tonight will be all the way down to the teens.  Tomorrow will be much colder, and starting tomorrow afternoon the chance of snow appears.

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Modern marine archaeology

The continual adaptation of modern technology to the discovery of shipwrecks, especially historically significant shipwrecks, is something that fascinates me.  So when I saw this story in Salon about the use of a 3-D sonar to reveal hidden features of a Civil War shipwreck off the coast of Texas, I just had to read it.   And if that sort of thing interests you, go check it out, because I am going to babble about history geek stuff for a little while and you might as well understand what I am talking about.

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Remembering the Blizzard of ’78

Tonight I was hanging out with my friend Patricio, and we went over to Micro Center to do some shopping and browsing.  Man, I love that store.  Anyway, the course of the conversation led to me talking about my grandparents’ farm in Somerset, and also led to me talking about the big blizzard of 1978.  That event is one that everyone around here remembers quite well.  My family here in Massachusetts certainly experienced it, especially my grandparents and other family members who lived in Somerset, which was in the area where it hit the hardest, down near the Rhode Island border.   I think my grandparents got about 30 inches of snow in less than 36 hours.

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I wore shorts today. Really.

Yeah, the temperature today got almost up to 60 degrees Fahrenheit.  That is just wrong.  And I experienced a feeling of deja vu, which is appropriate, considering we went through exactly this sort of thing just over a year ago.  It almost got up to 60, and I wore shorts that day and everything.  And to make things even crazier, we might get snow tomorrow night and Wednesday.

Whee?

-Geoff

A Geek-savvy White House

I already knew that the current President is a lot more science-friendly than his predecessor, but it turns out that there are some outright geeks who work for President Obama.  Someone created a petition asking the government to build a Death Star, and managed to get enough signatures to warrant a response.  In return, the White House response may have just won the Internet.

-Geoff

Somebody read my mind

I’m sure it’s not unusual to dream of having a house with secret passages in it.  I know that I had that dream all the time when I was a little girl.  Apparently there are other people who did as well.

Now some of them actually live in them.

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