This winter we didn't have an ice sculptures on the shore day but we did have a slushie day and that was yesterday. It's true I've neglected the PU for about a month and here's why. I wrote a post that started out this way: Tipping points are usually more visible when looking back and sometimes there is a small event that marks the tipping point. For most of Unity Barn Raiser history, for instance, we were able to get grants based on our low income population. We no longer qualify as a low income community. In my mind that change was marked by the grocery store getting automatic doors. I was startled to see our small town grocery get automatic doors and I should have known at the time that I was looking at a marker. and then went on to look around for a tipping point in the way I look at the company I work for. I thought it best not to publish that, but couldn't not say it either; so I was stuck. I'll skip the details and just say that looking back at the changing fortunes/environment of the company, I see a clear tipping point as the day the CEO cancelled Secret Santa two years ago. Nuff said. We are staying close to home these days as Melissa's mom is in hospice care at home. Her quality of life is still pretty good and she occasionally gets out and about. Winter is dull and that's probably why Melissa and I exchanged gifts early. She gave me a Kindle Fire and I gave her a cupola/weathervane that will go towards tartin' up the shed. Oh yes, it started with a windowbox and has come to this. The Kindle Fire is definitely a work in progress but it does a few things great. I'm reading my first ever Stephen King book on it, a novel about time travel in central Maine. It's fun just for the local references. The Kindle does video well and has an excellent cloud music player. I'm uploading playlists and about 80 gigabytes of music to the Amazon cloud. I listen to all my favorite radio stations(WERU, WWOZ, WXPN, WUMB). I also play Words With Friends (scrabble) with a dozen people at a time. All of this is WiFi dependent of course, but that's pretty much everywhere I would be using the thing. I have two great shows coming up in January, Alexis P. Suter on the 5th and Ana Egge on the 13th. Those may be the last shows I do at Unity Centre. The college is turning part of the theater building into a conference center and the conversion of the green rooms into "break-out session" rooms will make it very expensive to have shows there. It's been a fun ride; I'll make a list of all the shows I've booked there.

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