Order from Chaos

The DMV was slammed with a major snowstorm this weekend.  We got two seasons worth of snow in two days. 100 - the amount of dollars it cos...

So I spent today cleaning gutters and "battening down my hatches."  Yesterday after returning from a conference in Richmond, I wen...

"The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebr...

We are expecting our first "real" snow of the season tonight. It is not supposed to amount to anything, but here in the DC area, ...

Damn it's cold. For being in the snow hole right now, it is downright frigid out tonight. I am in the camp that if we are going to ha...

[second in a series] Yes, I know it's winter. Last week I started a series about snow. The first post was about my public school days...

[first in a series] So yesterday the DC region braced itself for impact. In the end, we got a little push from Mother Nature, but nothing l...

Has anyone noticed there's a little snow outside . . . still? The Brave Astronaut launchpad was the site of an impromptu playdate yest...

So here we are. Sunday night and the temperatures are down in the single digits. It likely due to the HUGE amount of snow cover out there....

So it would seem the Snowpocalypse is coming the DC metro area. It's been snowing here for about an hour and it's definitely sticki...

I had a lot to say. I have several posts queued up and ready to go. They need a little editing before they go out. And I'll get to th...

It is days like this that my mother would declare we were having a "cold supper." Deviled eggs (really good), cold cuts for sandwi...

Another hopping Saturday night here in Brave Astronaut land. My wife and I are babysitting my sister-in-law's daughter and she and my s...

Last night, upon going to bed, I was prepared to wake up this morning to sleet and freezing rain, similar to the type of weather that afflic...