Author Archives: Joel

I got my quota this morning, but won’t be much good for the rest of the day. All told I took apart a dozen pallets this morning, including two really small ones and one eight-footer that used to be the … Continue reading →

The nerve! Senator Dianne Feinstein, the committee’s senior Democrat, called Kavanaugh’s remarks unseemly for a judicial nominee. “This was someone who was aggressive and belligerent. I have never seen someone who wants to be elevated to the highest court in … Continue reading →

Makes for at least a few weeks of warm. No more putting it off! I make a standing offer to all my neighbors: If you have old eyesore pallets or trash lumber you want rid of, you let me know … Continue reading →

I saw this myself, but I’m too traumatized to testify so I just leaked it to the dems.

I believe I mentioned in the last care package post that I was interested to learn whether the adhesive on those traction strips Terrapod sent me worked better than the adhesive on skateboard tape. And the answer is… …yes. Until … Continue reading →

Access to your stuff isn’t anybody’s human right. In other news, communist rhetoric has never created a single commodity, or ever rendered any existing commodity infinite in quantity. Wendy phrases it better.

Friday at least one of the pullets had a little adventure… I arrived for morning chicken chores to find that the hens had excavated all the straw and too much of the dirt out from under the door of the … Continue reading →

On this morning, September 25 2018, I opened the last can of Trader Joe’s House Blend Coffee that the Secret Lair will ever see. This is one of the two sent me by Generous Readers and I was more inclined … Continue reading →

My original concept was to live on the contents of this tub exclusively until it was gone, to see what would happen. That would have taken eight long days. I gave up that plan on the afternoon of the second … Continue reading →

Second Woman Makes Accusation Against Kavanaugh Over something that supposedly happened at Yale. Several decades ago. May or may not have happened at all, may or may not have been Kavanaugh, certainly not something that could ever possibly make it … Continue reading →

Alas, this isn’t going to go eight days, or anything like eight days. For my sins I spent most of the afternoon fearful of moving too far from a toilet. My undoing was one of the tub’s principal entrées, Creamy … Continue reading →

Okay: So on my very first day, I cheated on my “emergency food only” diet… …so I didn’t even do the third meal yesterday. I did do lunch, though… …Creamy potato soup. Once again, as is I suppose going to … Continue reading →

Well okay then. I guess I’ll just drop what I’m doing, go back to the Lair, fire up the laptop, download all those photos currently floating around in Data Pergatory somewhere, and write that food review post I tried to … Continue reading →

Okay, so this morning we opened the tub. And immediately encountered our first snag. The tub bills itself as 48 hours of food for four people, and that’s the way it’s packaged. Not 192 hours of food for one person. … Continue reading →

Look what Big Brother sent me… Two tubs of this Augason Farms emergency storage food, promising 48 hours worth of food for four people – or eight days for one person? We Shall See. Tomorrow morning the tub gets unsealed. … Continue reading →

Under socialism, no matter how bad things might get due to the machinations of the Looters and Wreckers and External Enemiestm, our beloved masters will still be okay. They’ll do great, in fact. And that’s good, right? Because they’re so … Continue reading →

Yes. It was 5:30 in the blessed AM and I was baking bread. Why, you ask? What sane person would be doing that at such a time, when all good little boys and girls should be warm in their beds? … Continue reading →

Yeah, okay, the host has been having big server problems for some time, obviously. I’m told they’re on it, and also to expect more outages until the issue is resolved. Kind of figured that last bit out for myself and … Continue reading →