Monthly Archives: October 2021

For one thing I don’t have a doorbell… h/t to JP

I get human-type passengers so seldom – and would so hesitate to invite somebody civilized to put his/her ass on that seat anyway – that I’m thinking seriously of just pulling it out and laying down some old carpet. Except … Continue reading →

Some jobs are either super easy/barely an inconvenience or impossible, depending entirely on whether you have the part you need. Thanks to Generous Reader Terrapod I suddenly had a whole package of them, so… …the Jeep once again has a … Continue reading →

Okay, so after the 11am feeding I went down the hill to where I parked the yellow Jeep and put the rear driveshaft back on… …and Tobie was in the red Jeep and apparently being a very good boy, but … Continue reading →

Two old guys on one old guy’s turf are going to rub each other the wrong way sometimes. Case in point, my OCD neighbor D instructing me on how to fill his truck with gas: “When you put the cap … Continue reading →

I’m trying to find a new level of normal; over the past week I’ve devoted so much mental energy to where I’m supposed to be when I’m supposed to be there that I spend too much of my actual down … Continue reading →

Ian interviewed an expert on the subject 3 years ago. Very interesting. Bottom line: That famous accident last week not only could have been avoided, normal every-day movie-set practice would have avoided it.

Good news: Neighbor L seems to have come through her surgery quite well. They’re shipping her right out of the hospital to a – well, ‘nursing home’ is excessively grim, some place where she can get therapy for a week … Continue reading →

Maybe I’m just thinking about hubris, but I think there’s a better term for this… Let’s just agree that there are places you shouldn’t take an ordinary road car. And that you can sometimes find one of those places without … Continue reading →

My neighbors D&L are … how shall I put this? … particular people. They like things the way they like things, and mostly the way they like things is labor-intensive. This is not a personality trait with which I fully … Continue reading →

A few minutes before noon, just as I was getting ready to feed Tobie, I got a voice call from Neighbor D. Neighbor D just got back home last night from knee replacement surgery. While he’s healing, the plan was … Continue reading →

…always mean playing Tetris with the furniture. Tobie’s bed fits very neatly between the woodstove and the bedroom doorway. That also happens to be exactly the space needed for the woodbox and a dog’s feeding station, plus that fabric bed … Continue reading →

Landlady stopped by on the road north, and mentioned in a text that she had a “metric ton” of packages for me. She wasn’t exaggerating… Where to begin? You guys are making me work.

“…clearly I’m forced to a very poor choice.”

I can’t think of any other way to put it… For the dedicated desert hermit this is actually great. I used to kind of enjoy going to movies, and if watchable movies were still being made I’d really miss them. … Continue reading →

So yesterday after it warmed up a bit I went back to Ian’s for round 2 of the new game, Plug That Hole. And I think it went well… I’m gonna go back pretty quick to take the board away … Continue reading →

At the height of Monsoon Ian’s place developed a big leak at a useless spigot he put in the retaining wall between the Dome and the powershed. I had to jackhammer a big hole in the wall to cork up … Continue reading →

… and it won’t work out well for everybody.