Bfth's Boring Blog

  Thanksgiving in our house has never been what most people think of "traditional".  Because of my food allergies, we don't can't do turkey.  While most people have a crowd on the holiday, my family is small.  It's just the three of us and my in laws.  We started our "celebration" on Wednesday and it runs through Thursday. It's not what many people might think of as "normal."  But I have to say that this past Thanksgiving was one of the least stressful and most relaxing that I've had.   While getting to Thanksgiving was  challenging , Wednesday was much less so.   It started out very foggy, but cleared during the morning. Our landscaper FINALLY came to clean up the yard (I've been asking for a couple of weeks) and I found out that the company that supplies our propane and heating oil, would be able to work on our fireplace.  The technician came on Wednesday morning and amazingly it was a relatively easy fix.  (He was als...

After a fun filled drive to get my son and bring him back home on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving ( https://bfthsboringblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/where-was-i.html ), I am OVER weather.  But the weather isn't over me.  Weather isn't over anybody.  No matter what people might say (or think), you can't change about it.  You CAN bitch about it (and I know I frequently do), but you can't make a hurricane go away.  MAYBE you can try to make it rain (seeding clouds has some success, but you need clouds), but you're not going to stop a snowstorm.  Because if you could, I'd be buying into it big time! I took my son back to college the Sunday after Thanksgiving (and if I can get it together, I will eventually have a post about the actual holiday) and it was, of course, raining.  In order to avoid the horrible trip that I had on Tuesday afternoon/evening, I insisted that we head to NY before noon. (Grumbling on my son's behalf, but...) There was expected traffic, ...

It's the first day of December.  It's World AIDS day.  I've written about it before ( https://bfthsboringblog.blogspot.com/2016/12/here-we-are.html ), but that was nearly 10 years ago.  And since the current administration seems to want to hide this day in a closet, I'm not one to do that, and especially as this year’s “theme” doesn’t everything need one is: Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response. I'm old enough to remember when AIDS began appearing. While news about the disease started making its way around in the 1980s, did you know that they very first case in America MAY have been in 1969 and that in 1976 an 8 year old died in Europe from AIDS?  (The child's parents also died the same year.) Sadly, very few people seemed to care.  It was a "disease of gay men."  (Because why should we care about them?  [Insert extreme sarcasm here]).  That was totally untrue, but...Maybe if we ignore it, it will go away?  (That always wor...