Monthly Archives: June 2013

Put the cigarettes aside (2.5 weeks now!*) and started using one of those e-cigs. Being me, I scrounged some old batteries from somebody else. Now the power button has fallen off one of them and I have to activate it … Continue reading →

I’m sort of mentally sticking my finger in it this morning, trying to decide if yesterday’s brain reboot was successful. Pull on my boots without the top of my head falling off? Check. Look out the window without razor blades … Continue reading →

Did my shit-shoveling. Hung around the Lair until J wanted to go to town, and I tagged along because I wanted to do some food shopping and a Subway didn’t sound bad. Felt myself going back into the migraine nod … Continue reading →

Had a very productive morning yesterday. Finished insulating the hardest half of the Lair’s floor – had to tear out most of my drain pipe to do it, and then of course that had to be reassembled. Fitted around most … Continue reading →

Mostly its own crews, but that doesn’t rule it out as a terror suspect. If you see something, make an ass of yourself and say something. On Friday afternoon, a New York motorist called police with a tip about a … Continue reading →

…and you have any notion that you might need to work under it at some point… …and you will… Leave a crawl space high enough to get yer ass in there. That is all.

When congress voted to impose Obamacare on us all, there was a last-minute amendment that also imposed it on congress – because that sounded good. Undoubtedly those who voted for the bill planned for a quiet little “fix” to occur … Continue reading →

Can Ian blow up a Ross MkIII just by firing it?

I woke up to an email I didn’t want to get, from a person I don’t want to talk to. Ever again. I really thought we were past this. I don’t know why I thought that. Anyway, in lieu of … Continue reading →

So yesterday I cleaned Home Despot out of 1.5″ rigid insulation, which with fitting should be just enough to insulate the Lair’s floor. I had this really smart idea this morning, that I’d wait till the batteries were up to … Continue reading →

I’m suddenly in the market for a 12-volt air compressor for inflating tires. Tires have been a weak point in my preps for years. To my utter shock it has never stranded me anywhere bad before now. I have a … Continue reading →

…which is a kind way of saying they have the attention span of lint. Alas, this is not always true. The boys are my only constant companions, and so I tend to give more thought to what makes them happy … Continue reading →

Taken this past winter, at a time without snow.

Go read this. Right now. Just go. Then come straight back, y’hear? (Heh. “Rubber hose cryptanalysis” is not a phrase I ever heard before, but I have worried about the concept.) ETA: Once upon a time I wrote a book … Continue reading →

It’s been on my mind. For some (going on several) weeks, since Ian and I worked on his inlet pipes, the good ship Gulchendiggensmoothen has been stuck behind his dome. It was stuck there by the huge pile of dirt … Continue reading →

Yesterday Claire wrote a post in which she speculated on “The Worst Thing About the NSA Revelations.” And the problem developed, as the post unfolded, that there are so many things to hate about it one hardly knows where to … Continue reading →

I’m not a hairy guy. Not at all. Hair just doesn’t seem to be a part of my genetic makeup. Which explains why, though I haven’t cut my hair since December 2006 (on the occasion of my daughter’s wedding, which … Continue reading →

Free the ATF From the Gun Lobby This meme of the ATF as an oppressed, battered victim of the NRA patriarchy and bullying gun owners gets hauled out and dusted off periodically, including whenever somebody’s trying to get F-Troop an … Continue reading →

For educational purposes only, absolutely no endorsement expressed or implied, the staff and management of TUAK tremulously introduce you to the man who made a shotgun from a caulking gun. Seriously, I guarandamntee you there are far better, safer ways … Continue reading →