• Clan: McTiVo - Home Improvement

    The Dearth of Blogging

    Who has time to blog? Not me, apparently. I think about potential blog posts all the time, but never at a time when I am both connected to the Internet and able to use it (two very different things, especially given my office’s policies). On the weekends, for months now, I’ve been shirking. Well, ya basta. I’m constantly reading news and blog posts about politics, and shaking my head with dismay at the sheer… blind arrogance exhibited by many Big Name Pundits on both sides. Truth be told, the folks on the conservative side, with a few shining exceptions, all…

  • Episcopal

    Good Friday At Home

    I was at home Friday, having planned ahead for once and asked for the day off for what is typically an extremely slow day. I sang at the Maundy Thursday service, all went very well and it was very moving. I was disappointed that I blew the attack on the first “big” piece that we’ve been working on for months; when it came down to it, I pretty much funked the pitch for some reason, even though I’ve had no problems with it up to now. We’ve got a good choir, and a good choir mistress, although she gets a…

  • Home Improvement - Uncategorical Weirdness

    World Mini-Cooper Raids Spotted in Illinois Nowhere Near Route 66

    As I was battling through hail and rain to get to Holy Moly last night for Good Friday services, I found myself in the middle of a column of highly decorated classic Mini-Coopers, all about half the height of my own car and mighty cute. We all drove along Arlington Heights Road in a pounding rainstorm, and then we all turned left at Landmeier Rd, which is an obscure but wide arterial road that doodles around in the back of Elk Grove Village in an area that’s partly residential, partly a confusing wasteland of commercial business parks and mostly-abandoned rail…