December 2025

There were 2 posts published in December 2025.

my year in cities and towns, 2025

bed at my sister's place which is a nice antique bed with a tall stack of seven pillows on it.

What even is a hotel anyhow? I was talking to a friend and saying that in some way I’ve “retired from public life” meaning that I do talks locally but I do not hit the librarian circuit anymore. It’s been pretty good. I gave one online talk which I really enjoyed and a few more which I liked. I’d like to do more of that sort of thing. I miss seeing as many people, but I do not miss airports, hotels, and trying to find something to eat in some new location at 9 pm. One of my goals was to see my sister more. I did that and it was time well spent. Four trips down to MA, two of them were last month. Did not make it to Westport but there’s still time. Got some home improvement stuff done and that’s made staying here at home even nicer than it was before. I’ll keep counting the places just because I love my routine, but I’ll feel okay if there aren’t many of them.

Past years: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 2007, 2006, 2005.

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a napkin showing the four people with December 6th birthdays.

I laughed when I looked back at this blog and saw me talking about domains because that’s still what’s going on! Just in the past week I moved one domain to a new registrar and got all the fiddly email forwarding working (phew!) and also set up a new domain and hosting for the local historical society (mostly good, go see) and then realized I was neglecting my own blogs so I decided I’d say hello. Recent news:

– We have snow-that-staying here in Randolph and I’m so far mostly enjoying it. Can’t really tell how much my new roof is changing things, but it sure was nice to not be worried about the rain anymore.
– I have one of those old cars where the check engine light is on all the time now, but nothing is really wrong with it. This is my dad’s old car, so nothing surprising there but I’ve been involved in an ongoing “I know that’s true, but my car should be old enough that it doesn’t matter in order to pass inspection” back-and-forths with the State of Vermont who can’t explain why “the computer” won’t pass it. I feel driving an uninspected car is just one more rungs on the ladder to being a true Vermonter.
– Halloween and Thanksgiving and JIMSMAS were a good time. Solstice Bonfire is coming up.

Maybe that’s it. Hanukkah starts tomorrow. I should buy candles.