Author Archives: Joel

Got a chance to pay back some karma over at D&L’s, helping D stack a palletload of 3/4″ plywood in his workshop for some sort of apparently truly massive closet project. Not sure what sort of closet requires all that … Continue reading →

The Lair is a dusty, cobwebby place, for the most part. I blame Obama. Once in a while I look up and my eye alights upon a particularly embarrassing example of dusty and cobwebby, and then I must break out … Continue reading →

A couple of longtime readers blessed the tip jar with generous! contributions in the past few days. Thanks very much, you put the eye doctor appointment fund definitely over the top – as opposed to just “probably okay” – removing … Continue reading →

Standin’ on the Corner Park (opened 1999 in Winslow, Arizona) is a public park, commemorating the song “Take It Easy”, written by Jackson Browne and the late Glenn Frey, and most famously recorded by the Eagles. The song includes the … Continue reading →

Finally got back from town, and… That’s pretty much the last of my winter preps done, right there!

All the way to the front, all the way to the top! I should have brought the pieces of that fifth pallet I took apart yesterday, that would have done it and more. As it is I had to cheat … Continue reading →

Several-going-on-many years ago there was some political campaign or something in which it was claimed – this is absolutely the only thing I remember about it – that if X happened, little old ladies would have to choose between their … Continue reading →

Nothing really new here, it’s just the first thing that happened this morning. 5:30 in the morning here comes the big white Chevy truck down the wash, with Guess Who in the bed… I guess this is the new normal. … Continue reading →

It took four hours to charge it yesterday*, which since the 2 a/h battery takes two hours, was exactly what I predicted. What I wanted to know is, will it last long enough in a reciprocating saw, cutting pallets apart**, … Continue reading →

Landlady got in late last night, and this morning it was time for care package fun. From Carl came a new Official TUAK Camera, a Kodak point’n’shoot which may outlive its predecessor because of its lack of a mechanical zoom. … Continue reading →

“Then I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing…” What? That I was gone? Nah. I hate winter but not that much. Just this minute got word from Big Brother that the hurricane missed them; I guess it didn’t officially … Continue reading →

Gov. Scott signs Florida emergency concealed carry bill Yeah, this is more than a year old but I only just now saw it, no doubt dredged up because of the hurricane. Florida had (one of?) the first of the new … Continue reading →

It’s the rifle on the wall. Nothing fancy, but it’s what I reach for when things go bump in the night. And sometimes things do go bump in the night. I need to know it works. When I had my … Continue reading →

Sorry, guys. I’m around and everything’s cool, but nothing’s really going on and there’s nothing I’m jumping to talk about. Maybe later.

Police in Utah Recommend Against Shooting Random Clowns Anyway it’s the specific clowns you need to worry about.

Have you ever seen a troupe of Chinese acrobats? It’s really cool, completely over the top, like Cirque du Soleil with less glitz, no storyline and more Chinese people. I saw it in this theater in Beijing one time, and … Continue reading →

This kind of pisses me off. I didn’t do very much on-line yesterday at all. Very little surfing for content. No videos. One – one! – pic download for the blog. Okay, three or four counting the doormats. And yet … Continue reading →

In the end, the only way to keep a big EOTW bunker hidden is to either locate it so obscurely that you hardly need a bunker, or put it behind expansive fences patrolled by well-fed and happy troops with strong … Continue reading →

That packrat nest I tore out from under the lair in June keeps giving. Today I finally stopped procrastinating and crawled back under to re-wrap the vertical water pipe. I don’t contort as well as I used to – go … Continue reading →

Which I took to mean it resets on the first, showing that I should approach the nastygrams on electronic gadgets the way fundamentalists misread the Bible: Literally. Looks like I’m back. Looks like you guys had fun in my absence. … Continue reading →