Author Archives: Joel

…these past few days, as in his life with stick-in-the-mud ol’ Daddy he has grown to expect his routine to remain more or less dependable. Then when Crazy Daddy showed up and started doing terrible things to LB’s Lair, culminating … Continue reading →

Ah, late monsoon weather. I’d have sworn it was going to rain and drip all afternoon. But the rain stopped and by 2 the sky was clearing. By 3 there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. Which is good, because … Continue reading →

Well, the weather didn’t cooperate. You’d ask why that matters, since the tiles are being set indoors – and whatever other flaws the Secret Lair may incorporate, the roof does not leak. Yeah, I wondered the same thing, until I … Continue reading →

Having left my broken camera’s mem card at Ian’s, I rummaged around in the drawer for another this morning but it doesn’t now contain any pictures so I guess – surprise! – I made a mistake. While scraping thinset I’d … Continue reading →

Just tell him, “Buddy, the first thing we have to move today is you.” and then do that, and then throw his bed out of the cabin, and then shuffle all the furniture around, and then start doing something bad … Continue reading →

I’m spending very little time online, this will probably continue for…well, until October. Because bandwidth limits somehow become more stringent when you’ve got 4 gig than when you’ve got 750 meg. I dunno: This modern logic, it escapes me. Also … Continue reading →

It seems, thanks to Big Brother who thought to go look, that my emails are going out just fine: They’re just landing in spam folders thanks to the joelsgulch.com tag. Pee pee. Ca ca. Other expressions of disgust and dissatisfaction … Continue reading →

It’s a cool and cloudy September day, which would have been perfect for cutting wood. Really wish I hadn’t blown myself out doing it yesterday in the sun. Be that as it may I did, so I scheduled today for … Continue reading →

I’m beginning to suspect I have an email problem. Since switching email addresses I have sent emails and received emails, but I have never received a response to an email. This makes me suspect there’s a setting I left unswitched. … Continue reading →

Ladies and Gentlemen, Senator Harry (excuse me, I landed on my head) Reid: “It’s hard to believe in America today an FBI terror suspect not allowed to fly on an airplane can walk into a gun story in Las Vegas, … Continue reading →

So today I went from this… To this… And of course this… And I still didn’t make it to the top. But I’m not going to worry about it for a while. Maybe I’ll get a wild hair and cut … Continue reading →

Busy day today, just how busy I’m not yet sure but I’m currently obsessing over a pile of old splintered wood. Plus there’s a trip to town I probably ought to make even though I don’t want to, and I’m … Continue reading →

It’s September 17 and according to this really cool hotspot I’ve been using for the past two weeks… …I’ve somehow used up 3 gigs of my 4-gig monthly bandwidth limit. I don’t really see how that can be, since the … Continue reading →

When this area was bought up by some real estate people and laid out as residential plots, they bulldozed a bunch of halfhearted roads here and there. Those that were never used have pretty much gone back to young versions … Continue reading →

No, seriously. They said that. Also, keeping chickens in the house is generally a bad idea. This may actually be a historic day. Normally when I reference the CDC it’s for the purpose of ridiculing the CDC. In this case … Continue reading →

Missed it by that much. If I’d cut everything I had ready to cut, I think I’d have made it. I love the hardwood pallets. They’re the only source of hardwood I’ve found for burning, and that lovely hard dense … Continue reading →

Cut up most of the pallets I cut apart yesterday, which made for a good couple of days. I didn’t really intend to work on firewood this week, planning rather to get the floor tiling behind me. But with Ghost … Continue reading →

Situation: You’re the chief of a small West Virginia police department. A police officer under your command, responding to a domestic dispute call, is confronted by an armed man who behaves belligerently and demands that the officer shoot him. Perceiving … Continue reading →