Happy Solstice

Dear Friends List,

Most of you are in the Northern Hemisphere, so happy Longest Night! And to my one or two Southern Hemisphere friends, happy Longest Day! I hope the snows clear, and in the meantime, I hope you're enjoying some quiet time.

Here in the Pacific Northwest, it's doing what it does best: raining and being mild. There are very short days of rain, and very long nights of rain, but it's little, intermittent rain and doesn't prevent a person from going outdoors and doing stuff. It will rain for Christmas and probably rain for New Year's, and that's okay with me and Clyde.

I have a confession to make: Feedly, which I've been using--and fawning over greatly--as my reading aggregator, has a flaw. LJ doesn't feed friendslocked posts to it. I knew that. No feed reader gets flocked LJ posts. But Feedly is so pretty that I forgot.

So for about ten days now, I haven't seen a single flocked post. I'm sorry! Journals on my flist that are mostly or entirely flocked, I've missed you altogether. I'm playing catchup now.

Good Yule to everybody!

A patriot. A beer. A really cool mayor.

I really like the mayor of Portland. I wish the pearl-clutchers would quit trying to recall him.

Sam Adams, my boss's boss's boss's boss's boss, has survived a really nasty recall effort of the Clinton Impeachment variety (no links, no love, no energy, but if you're curious, it's out there), and has never once wavered in his public face as a hardworking, progressive, and effective mayor.

He's also fun, funny, and hip. And he rides a bike.

( No clue if he likes green eggs and ham. )

One of my favorite recent Sam Tweets:

Congrats to Houston Mayor-Elect Annise Parker, now US's largest city openly gay Mayor; from the US's 2nd largest city openly gay mayor.
9:43 PM Dec 12th from TweetDeck