Author Archives: Joel

…because neighbors kept showing up with heavy drugs. The doctor gave me a prescription for 20 tabs of 800 mg Ibuprofen, which i didn’t even bother filling. Began to regret that within an hour of returning to the Lair, when … Continue reading →

…is to manage the crime scene. Which is pretty frickin’ weird, right? I mean, sure, make sure the boys are all right. I can do that by opening the door so they have access to water, and spilling their big … Continue reading →

But England’s journey to the wimp side appears to be complete. ‘We have friends with young children who could have put one of the bullets in their mouth, or one of our cats could have got hold of one – … Continue reading →

I’m probably just enjoying the interlude before the drugs wear off. The pain is now merely very unpleasant, and not positively disabling. Woke up this morning and everything was just fine. Then I felt like I’d been stabbed in the … Continue reading →

The past few days have been so hot and still that sleep has become something of an issue for this old man. Between the muggy pre-monsoon heat and LB’s ongoing gastric drama, I barely remember what a full night’s sleep … Continue reading →

My poor, once-neat pile’o’stuff. I don’t know what started it. Maybe the rat came out for something – in the heat of the middle of the day – but what ever it did it made the mistake of attracting Ghost’s … Continue reading →

You get a few bux ahead, and what happens? I think my laptop is failing. Turned it on, it promptly crashed, and now the sound doesn’t work. A cabinet full of DVDs and a file folder full of music, suddenly … Continue reading →

Got to sleep late because hot and stuffy. Got forcibly awakened at ohdeargodthirty by a LittleBear-related incident (“Good boy! Really!”) and never went back to bed. Started my weekly bread baking at 5 AM because this is the only time … Continue reading →

LB was not made for heat. On days like this I fleetingly suffer a twinge of guilt for ever dragging him out here in the first place – but then I remember that he was born in a place substantially … Continue reading →

I do believe this is as hot as I’ve ever seen it here. It’s been a hot June overall, and the month is apparently planning to go out with a bang. Hope it doesn’t stay this way all summer. I … Continue reading →

I visited D&L yesterday, mentioned in passing that I had the money to pick up my chainsaw and that next time we happened to be in town on a weekday I’d like to go by the saw shop. His eyes … Continue reading →

Thanks to Survivalblog mentioning Mama Liberty’s very kind review of the solar power ebook, I’ve actually sold enough books not only to pay for internet access through August, I can even get my chainsaw back from the shop! There wasn’t … Continue reading →

No, not that Gitmo. THIS Gitmo. No longer will Gitmo be used for the confinement of dogs. Instead, from now on it will house and nurture happy, productive chickens. Those we don’t murder with axes, butcher and stew, that is… … Continue reading →

If I climb the nearest ridge on a frosty morning I can see the steam plumes from two electric power plants, one distant and one not so much. I wonder if they’ll still be making steam on the next frosty … Continue reading →

…and some people are… Please don’t despair or assume (as at least one person has) that I’m a ripoff artist. The Paypal process has either confused some folks or just left them in the lurch, I don’t know which it … Continue reading →

A sensation as if I embarked upon a project, and then … finished it! When it comes to work on the Lair, it really is something I don’t do often: Just pick a project and do it until it’s done. … Continue reading →

And then the irony… We’re asking countries like Russia and China – countries known for spying on their own citizens – to turn over an American citizen accused of … wait for it … revealing that the United States is … Continue reading →

Sometime this afternoon the day’s lackluster traffic suddenly climbed. It was all coming from ML’s very kind review of the solar electric ebook, which didn’t make a lot of sense because that was well over a week ago. Forever, in … Continue reading →

Just for a day. Just so I could do this. Just once. Then I’d come back home. H/T to Borepatch.