Just a quick note: I'm doing some site maintenance of various sorts relating to comment handling, photo pathing and other boring garbage, so you might encounter some busted stuff around here over the next few weeks.

Pfft, bleah, gotta get these cobwebs outta my mouth, geez, who's responsible for the upkeep around here?! Oh, wait. Yeah, so it's been pretty dead around here lately, eh? I never have been one to blow my own horn, and if you didn't believe it, just take the last few months around here as proof, 'cuz there's been plenty at times to roll with. So if you're indeed bothering to read this I thank you for the courtesy, and would you be so kind as to give my knees a good mafia whack or two just to get 'em moving again?

The Saint Canard Midland Railway's East Frankfort Shops are honored to present a completely refurbished and restored 1947 Penn Line Reading Crusader streamlined 4-6-2 locomotive, and matching 1955 Mantua/Tyco aluminum streamliner consist!

I laughed. Yes, I laughed.

One of my coworkers came by my desk just before 9 am on Tuesday, saying the morning pop-talk show he listened to claimed that someone had flown a plane into the World Trade Center. The idea had seemed so ridiculous – what kind of idiot could not see two of the largest buildings in the world? I asked him if it was a joke, another shock-radio prank.

He springs to his feet and hefts his pack to his shoulder, grabs what looks like a banjo and gives a loose tug on the chain leashed to the dog that’s already trotting ahead. It all happens in a blur in the side view mirror before I even come to a stop on the on-ramp shoulder.

I feel a sense of atonement watching his long strides to the car, a weary smile on his face. I roll the window down, and the snout of some sort of beagle-labramutt mix pokes through. The hitcher leans down hopefully.

Free Software is what this site is built on so maybe I should shut my yap and figure out how to use it!

Actually, for about the last month or more much of the photo gallery hasn't been working properly. Turns out an update to the plugin I use broke dang near everything, thanks to an newly-deemed incompatibility with my long-standing naming convention. So I spent a fair chunk of spare time over the weekend troubleshooting and ultimately making the necessary changes... and it seems things are working again. Yay.

I will always and forever love the Honda Insight, if only for this true story that (I kid you not!) happened to me just last Thursday Friday: