First mobile post and the weather.

I've been trying to find a topic to blog about from my phone and the weather seems just as good as any. The weather here seems fairly eratic. We've had highs and lows fluctuate quite a bit and this morning, waiting for the school bus, I think my ears almost went numb. I think I picked the wrong day to wear a baseball hat instead of a stocking cap. And it wasn't just cold, it was bitter cold with wind blown snow, the type of weather that seems just that much more tolerable if you turn your back to it. The other kids at the bus stop were doing the same, and I'm pretty sure if enough people were there an alien observer would assume some strange sort of social phenomenon.

Well, that's all for this post. I Gotta get back to actively waiting for the Directv installer. A four hour window. One hour down, three to go. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your local congressional representative, or you can just leave a comment I guess...

Stranger in a strange land...

Well, it's been just a tad over a week since I pulled up to our new home in a U-Haul, new to Great Falls, MT.  Mrs. Astro Chicken has been here for several months after accepting a promotion at work.  Finally we are all together under one roof.  The kids seem to be adapting well to school and unpacking is, well, it's unpacking...

The lovely Mrs. scouted ahead and rented the house, and the neighborhood seems nice to far, but we are a ways out of Great Falls.  Grocery shopping is going to need to be carefully planned as some sort of military aid operation as it's a good drive into town.  We have a gas station convenience store only a few blocks away from the house, but nothing else I know of for miles and heading into town involves a voyage into the windy badlands. Seriously, there's nothing between where we live and in town. It's quite inspiring, from a post-apocalyptic survivalist I need to get my Bug Out Bag ready point of view. And the wind is crazy.  At times I wonder if the house is going to blow away.  No cyclones yet, just sheer wind force.  The kids and I hang out in the basement a lot...

Amazingly enough, U-Haul does not make a truck big enough to carry all of our crap, even after many carloads of donation items and a pile of junk slated for the dump that took up half the garage.  The kids got to bring almost all of their stuff, but we have had to leave stuff behind for a second U-Haul operation sometime early next year. Specifically for me, I had to leave all of my retro computing stuff.  I was looking forward to finally getting a chance to learn some Apple Pascal, but that is going to have to wait.  I did at least bring all of my pencil and paper RPG stuff, so I'm looking forward to dipping my toe into that pool again.

Well, that's all I got for now.

Welcome to Monolith Burger

Welcome to my blog.  It's not much, probably never will be, and may or may not sporadically be updated from time to time.  It's largely going to be random thoughts I feel like exposing to the ever critical internet.  So check back from time to time and maybe there will be more.