Author Archives: Joel

CDC Finds Live Anthrax In All Test Samples Shipped By Military, Orders Labs to Destroy Remaining Lots The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now believes that there was live anthrax in all of the samples mistakenly sent by the … Continue reading →

Neighbors D&L do a lot for me. Life here would be much more difficult for me without them. So when they need something from me and it’s something I can do, I don’t wait to be asked. Usually it’s little … Continue reading →

Much of the infrastructure on Landlady’s property has proven problematic, and much of it is simply aging. There have been numerous issues over the years as equipment installed by contractors who either didn’t know or didn’t care how to do … Continue reading →

Who has the gold, makes the rules. The GOP Establishment made two promises on immigration, one to the Donor Class, and one to the gullible unfortunates it tricked into voting for them. To the Donor Class, it promised they would … Continue reading →

All this ‘trans’ discussion has made me feel deeper and deeper shame at my lack of courage in coming out publicly to you all. If transgender, transracial and even transable people can summon the courage to face the truth, with … Continue reading →

Because I care what these people think**. Hillary Clinton racks up rapper endorsements No, don’t bother reading it. I just thought it was funny that CNN believes that I could believe that the opinion of the person who ‘wrote’ the … Continue reading →

I’ve been down in the dumps the past few days because I pulled up lame in the middle of the Lair-siding project, and now it’s just sitting there mocking me. And the weather’s been weird: Rain in June? That doesn’t … Continue reading →

Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93 What a voice, what a presence. He was in some real turkeys – in fact I’m having trouble thinking of a good movie he ever graced, other than LOTR. But he was always an … Continue reading →

In that there video.

That was once a 3/8″ bolt. And it had a head, and a washer and a nut. Now there’s what you see, and it wasn’t holding a positive cable to its terminal well at all. (Yes, Zelda. For some things … Continue reading →

Since I neglected to get back to it, this post having gone rather long, the following ruminations are inspired by this confusing article at the CS Monitor. I’ve got it easy. I can go to town without covering my gun … Continue reading →

I’m so bummed. I’m living in a construction zone that hasn’t moved forward in two days, and likely won’t move much today. Saturday after having gotten so much done I pulled up lame, having pretty much scoured the end of … Continue reading →

Mom and baby both had a very rough delivery, it seems, which after 20 hours ended in a cesarean section. Just got out of the hospital and Former Neighbor H will by all accounts be recovering for some time, but … Continue reading →

…when you have to go there, they have to take you in. – Robert Frost Poor Ghost is having another of his little crises. This weekend Landlady and Ian were up. Landlady left yesterday, and Ian remained. But because Landlady … Continue reading →

I’d be a pretty poor hermit if I couldn’t find better things to think about than the ‘mattress girl’ saga. However my cave does have Internet access and so I was aware that allegations of ‘rape culture’ currently thrive among … Continue reading →

Because I heard that started in July. But for the past few weeks we’ve been overflown – hell, sometimes we get buzzed – by combat aircraft I never saw around here before. I just had an Apache helicopter fly over … Continue reading →

…if the Normandy Invasion means about as much to me, emotionally, as the Battle of Agincourt? Whoever wrote the Henry V speech would have me believe that was a really big deal but I don’t care about it. There was … Continue reading →

…is what Neighbor D and I almost did this afternoon, when a strong gust came along just as we got that upper piece into place. It was hang on like grim death or let it fly into our faces and … Continue reading →

…but he doesn’t get many because of logistical concerns. If he gets one, of course Ghost must have one as well. But Ghost isn’t really into them, so he’ll take his off and hide it. And then come back home … Continue reading →

Here’s an article on some guy’s web page which decries the great variety available in his supermarket’s toilet tissue aisle. Read it if you’re just surfing around, I didn’t find it as clever or amusing as I believe the author … Continue reading →