We’re still looking for a rental with more solar gain and a better woodstove. I’m feeling lucky, too.
I like heating with wood, athough it won’t do for the studio my wife needs for her glossy-black baby grand piano. In the long run, I think we’ll have to buy some land and build a couple of [...]

Well, crank up the worry machine. (Or not! read on…)
What I find most interesting about using the Internet for finding news is how much of what the rest of the world sees never makes it into American media consciousness. For example, all but a rear guard of 800 Australian troops just came home from Iraq [...]

I must be one weird bird, but what can ya do?
I just watched half of a TV show called “Top Chef” on the Bravo channel with my wife and her sister and her husband, and I swear it hurt my feelings. I’m still trying to sort this one out, but I just don’t get [...]

Dubuque is a fascinating old city with lots of character perched high on the limestone bluffs overlooking the mighty Mississippi. (The river is quite high now, too.) In the image below, you’re looking north from Eagle Point Park. The opposite bank is Wisconsin. While we were standing there, we saw three pelicans fly by. Yes, [...]

Oh that Hillary (addressing the topic of Iran)… Some words should never be uttered, not even in the heat of a national political campaign. If you like that kind of language, though, this is what you’re signing up for:

Post-blast corpses in Hiroshima, Japan

This photo and others like it were only recently released. They’re from August, [...]

We will likely be spending the night there shortly. There are several things about Kearney you should know, one of which is that we will not be lodging at the “Americinn.” Yes, that’s an actual motel (”america inn,” I suppose) — reads like the name of a red-white-and-blue weed killer, doesn’t it? Neither will we [...]

[No doubt another time when I just shouldn't write, but here goes anyway...]
I belong to a certain Macintosh-oriented email list. Earlier yesterday I read about how Qwest is now offering 20 mbps DSL — the fastest available in this country — in a few selected areas. Then last night I encountered a blog post about [...]

I just looked out the window, and New Mexico is still here. There’s a mountain thousands of feet high without a single condo on it, and there never will be, because it’s sacred to the Pueblo. I’m not assaulted by golf or 24/7 grass mowing. The closest Interstate highway is over an hour away. [...]

Well, this is kinda strange, but I think everything will be all right.
After years of carping, bitching, whining, hating, excoriating, and denouncing anything that has to do with the corrupt soul of American governance and policy (especially the traitorous, cowardly Democratic leadership in Congress), and after undergoing a complete transformation of personal consciousness regarding the [...]