3:00 snapshot #869

Alex came over to keep me company during my traditional Lonely Bachelor Xmas weekend. (Alexis spent the weekend with her family in Vermont. I took care of the dogs.) Beer was involved.


Our foster dog Cammie spends a lot of time in the kitchen dog bed.


This weed in the cellar window well has turned red with the stress of late autumn. Is it some kind of spurge or carpetweed perhaps?

3:00 snapshot #870

Cammie and Charlie came along on my errand today. Earlier I took Maggie and Charlie to Stony Brook: ( three pictures )

Musical interlude

Hodgman posted this about a month ago; I thought it was very sweet and nostalgic. I was sure I had heard the song before, but I wouldn't have been able to tell you where. Then I was trying to find this video and YouTube offered up this:

Oh yeah. That would have been it. I did read the wikipedia page about the song and found that the Chipmunks had recorded a version too, which I must have heard at one point. Then there's this version, which has lovely vocals but somewhat irritating background music:

This caused me to learn that the Lennon Sisters are still an actively performing group, and that "Masculiminated" is a word used by people who like to fantasize about a world where men never existed and where there are two genders of "girls" of different hair color. Apparently there are several novels and such.

And that's why I didn't get anything productive done this weekend.