Author Archives: Joel

Sometimes I forget that not everybody’s like me. That’s easy to do, I suppose, since I associate almost exclusively with people who are at least kinda like me. Which is to say, you know, they chose to live here or … Continue reading →

The storm that had been building and building broke with terrific force. It broke overhead, and it broke over the plateau and canyons to the southeast. In less than ten minutes the gully behind the Secret Lair belched forth a … Continue reading →

This is the first I’ve been able to connect in over 24 hours. Even cellphone reception is shot, only texting works well. Storm of the decade broke yesterday at 2 and did more damage than I’ve ever seen from a … Continue reading →

…straightening up the chicken yard, putting produce in the fridge, getting my own house in order in case I might actually need to deal with greet guests of a welcome nature. And on such occasions I sometimes ponder the fact … Continue reading →

After a two-day false alarm, Uncle Joel has to be social today. Landlady’s coming with her folks and there’s a neighborhood get-together this evening. So I’m cleaning up around the Lair a bit and baking bread early. It threatened rain … Continue reading →

In reference to a paragraph in an article about a DHS employee who ran a website advocating race warfare (which went down yesterday while I was looking at it,) in which a former co-worker claimed constant fear that the guy … Continue reading →

Here’s an interesting idea Landlady just sent me… An incandescent light bulb inside a cinder block. You put a flat stepping block on top, and then the chicken waterer on top of that. Should produce just enough heat to keep … Continue reading →

This is from the one who’s been pecking the other two bald for a year. After two days of no egg from her at all, she has the gall to deliver this… Unwise, when the Daughters of the Pellet may … Continue reading →

Landlady’s got a big old hard drive at her place with a bunch of movies and TV shows, and with her permission I’ve killed quite a few evening hours with it over the past couple of years. Some of the … Continue reading →

Because damn. “I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility),” Manning continued in the statement. “I look forward to receiving letters … Continue reading →

D: Hey, Joel! [L] saved you a bunch of veggie trimmings for your chickens. You want them, or should I pitch them out? Me: Hell no, don’t pitch them! I’m getting some stuff together to drop off at [Landlady’s], so … Continue reading →

Ian and Landlady both are coming up from the city, and both are allegedly bringing guests. As far as I know neither have planned activities (read, work) that involve me. But as part of the unwritten and largely unspoken agreement … Continue reading →

The commentator fills that last part of the video with a plug for his website, where you can go and … I dunno, sign a petition or something. That’ll get money out of politics, fer shur. He’s quite right, though, … Continue reading →

The ol’ cedar rat has heard rumors of this thing called a ‘hand-held device,’ which may affect the way people read this blog. I’m always behind – sometimes several years behind – every technological trend that’s ever been. I could … Continue reading →

‘There’s a sort of neoconfederate thread that runs through the pro-gun movement.’ Get a load of that. In addition to her actual complaints about how ‘we won’t even let a state decide its own gun laws,’ we’re also racist. Or … Continue reading →

When I was a boy, we moved a lot and I went to a lot of different schools. In fact I graduated from the twelfth public school I ever attended, and so I consider myself fairly well versed in the … Continue reading →

Ian over at Forgotten Weapons has gotten into the habit of competing at his monthly 2-gun action match with something … well, unconventional. Which makes the obligatory match video more entertaining than usual. It seems he’s corrupting the management: This … Continue reading →

Tonight we dine in hell. Well, to be technical Hell begins later this morning. My least favorite – but most remunerative – recurring paying gig kicks off for the next three days, making arsenic caps for GC Guy. If all … Continue reading →

There’s been a lot of ink lately about MAIG members quitting the organization because “They’re really just anti-gun? I honestly did not know that.” As the linked article helpfully points out, that’s hard to take at face value. That Bloomberg … Continue reading →

Grumble. I just had to turn down the deal of a lifetime on a couple of storage batteries more than twice the size of the ones I’m using now – because they’re twice the size of the ones I’m using … Continue reading →