I'm not sure if I haven't been writing because of the frazzling effects of the holidays, or the lazy mood I got into over the two weeks off from work. If I had to pick just one excuse? Lazy mood. I haven't made beer in weeks either, but that's because I'm out of vessels. If I made more beer now, it would just pour out on the ground.
I did finally go paddling on the river yesterday though - again, like everything else, it's been weeks. What have I been doing over all these weeks? Reading, listening to music, riding Amtrak, running with the dog in the morning. Anyway, yesterday it was pouring down and I got pretty wet, but it isn't particularly cold, especially if you're paddling hard, and it was fun. The strangest thing I saw was an apparently dead swan, flat at the edge of the water with its neck stretched out along the ground. By the time I got the boat turned around and worked my way back up to it, it was miraculously alive and waddling away. Looked more like a domestic goose from the back.
