Monday, July 22, 2019
I Ought to Get Bonus Points for This One
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Here's the latest major score in "Find the Obscure Character Actor." Today, watched this . Not the first time I watched it e...
So, How Do You Get an Insurance Company to Apologize?
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Dawned on us this week, reading the yearly escrow report for our mortgage, that our homeowner’s insurance is going up by $430 a year. Th...
Monday, July 15, 2019
Collect Underpants . . . Rich Dad, Poor Dad . . . ?. . . Profit!
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Through the mere act of writing about books like “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” in a negative manner, I instantly fulfill the prophecies of individua...
Friday, July 12, 2019
Deer Strike
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Considering how many trips we've made to and from various scout camps in the past eight years, I'm surprised this hasn...
Seeing the Redwoods
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They always ask for pictures. Some are very precise. They want pictures from the Carcassonne Montes. Something from the wall of Ba...
Sunday, July 7, 2019
Fence Done. Weenie Dog for Scale
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LOOK! The back fence is done. Except for the staining. And I've still got the side fence to do. And all that siding. BUT ...
Net-Metered Whining BUT COLLECTIVELY!
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TO Idaho Public Utilities Commission PO Box 83720 Boise, ID 83702 RE: Proposed Changes to Ro...
Friday, July 5, 2019
Nobody Withstands the Machine
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WESTLEY [Strapped to a table]: Where am I? THE ALBINO [In raspy voice]: The Pit of Despair. Don’t even think [he coughs, gags, clears h...
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Humanists, Meet Humanists
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This, folks, is why you read a book more than once. And why sometimes you have to remind yourself that reading out of good books doesn...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
"Lawn Mowers"
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When I read the opening paragraph of Adam Chandler’s article this morning in The Atlantic, this vignette from MASH immediately came to min...
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