"Go Bills, for we are here to cheer for you. Go Bills, we are your fans so true. With victory in sight, we'll yell with all our might, so Go Bills, Fight Bills, Go! Come on lets win for Buffalo!" -Anon A short post today, because I spent a chunk of this morning talking Jim through what to do about a deadbeat employer and how he might refine his job search. One of the few really good things that's happened in 2025 is really reconnecting with Jim, rather than making the occasio

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." -Robert Louis Stevenson A lot less snow out there after an afternoon high yesterday in the mid-40s. More heat coming today. It's not optimum for the whole winter wonderland schtick that kept us up here this deep into the December calendar. So we'll leave sooner than planned after Peg's boss gave her the grace of the 23rd off from work, not to return until the 29th. We were looking at trying to get out of here on Christma

"...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded." - Noah Webster 12.17.25 A heat wave arrives in the Southern Tier, just in time for Christmas.

"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being." - Albert Camus Looking out across the valley on this thirteen degree morning at the bare tree trunks and branches highlighted by the snow clinging to the hills. Back at Tara we displayed a daguerreotype of Southside Hill with the house right there where it's been for 176 years now, backed by those same snowy hills. Nothing has changed. I find it reassuring every time I drive up