It's not a good idea to piss off Boston.

The enormity of what was done over the last few days in Boston is starting to settle down for me. They closed the city, the greater city. I'm not saying they closed the businesses and schools,

I am saying they closed the entire freaking city. They stopped all transit, above and below ground, they closed the airports, all public, and get this, private buildings. Everyone just went inside, closed the doors and stayed put.

It's the practiced New England tradition of hunkering down.

Then they brought what appeared to be every law enforcement person from the state. There is a plan where each of the over 400 towns and cities sends in a representative crew. Our town sent five PO's four firemen and one of the town's three ambulances. Percentage-wise, that's like NYC sending something like 10,000 officers.

They searched every block in Watertown and most of Cambridge.

Imagine NYC doing that hunting for one bad guy.

It's not a good idea to piss off Boston.

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Reviews ‘n’ Tips reviewed

Through the magic of Twitter @DanielSharkov brought his blog REVIEWS ‘N” TIPS to our attention.

We want to compliment him here on the timeliness of his clearly written pieces on the joy and science of blogging.

In just a few pages he went from technical to social lists.  (We are suckers for lists.)

We were drawn with the lead article about reasons to get of social media for a few days and were hooked  with

8 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Sidebar’s Effectiveness .

If you read the Famous Grazing blogs you have an interest in the mechanics of blogging.  Mr. Sharkov’s site is worth a visit, a browse and probably a subscription.

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The Last of the Snow Just Melted.

I was looking out of the second story office window this morning and commented that there was still snow piled along the west side of the driveway.

I looked again after getting home this afternoon.  Mindlessly looking around I noticed a robin playing in the grass along the same side of the driveway. Then I noticed: No Snow!

It has been a long winter.  I hope I didn’t just jinx it.

The snow tires come off on Saturday!!!

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