Happy New Year! It’s the year of the dragon. Funny, seems like it was the year of the dragon just 12 years ago. It’s also “Blue Monday” – “scientifically” determined to be the most depressing day of the year. Whereas I have to work a 5-day week, and have the “support” duty, I can’t argue.

It’s warm out this morning, and the dog is outside staring in the direction of the woods, and barking. I have no idea what he’s barking at. I think he’s doing the old dog equivalent of yelling “get off my lawn” at the coyotes, or something. Well, whatever makes him happy.

I was rooting around unsuccessfully searching for my soldering iron yesterday (haven’t seen it since since we moved), because I need to fix on of my workshop speakers. While I didn’t find it, I rather enjoyed taking a trip down memory lane, looking at all the things I’ve absolutely had to buy over the years that became obsolete or otherwise useless about a week after I bought them. I tried not to calculate a dollar amount, though.

I also ran across a treasure trove of eye glasses, so that was cool. My current glasses are scratched, broken, or scratched and broken.

Happy Birthday to Richard Dean Anderson. Many think of him as McGyver, but to me he’ll always be Col. Jack O’Neill.

Oops, apparently I forgot to actually turn this on this morning. Though it doesn’t seem anybody would actually notice.