Author Archives: Joel

If I were going by perception rather than logic, I’d testify that I don’t normally dream at all. I go to sleep, I wake up. That’s all. Sometimes I wake up with vague odd notions, and often with a very … Continue reading →

Hooked up with my weekender neighbor S this morning. He’s gotten into solar electric installations in a big way, to the point where he’s able to stay employed at it full-time. I asked him, “How much to buy a solar … Continue reading →

My Winchester 1300 is the first gun I bought post-marriage. I wanted something for home defense, but needed time for working out what I considered the much more serious questions of rifle and pistol. (by the end of the marriage … Continue reading →

I’ve had … well, almost … nothing to say about that NYPD mass shooting of a couple of weeks ago. Wasn’t there, don’t know. I got a kick out of the coverage: “Deranged man commits mass shooting outside Empire State … Continue reading →

Even though I knew it was coming I guffawed. Courtesy of MArooned, who’s doing some sort of “Kilted to kick cancer” thing. Which I’ve never understood how that works – I suspect he just likes the airflow and the weird … Continue reading →

And I get dressed, go down the ladder. Everybody’s real glad to see me, each for their own reason. Ghost wants to go outside. LB’s spent the night certain he’s been abandoned. Click wishes to draw my attention to the … Continue reading →

I’ve got this older Taurus .44 revolver that has never worked out just right. It needs a new mainspring, and the stock grips are really radically not what I’m used to. But these are things that can be fixed, as … Continue reading →

Remember when this new thing called the “internet” was getting a lot of mention, and all people wanted to talk about was how it enabled this other thing called “porn?” I remember giving it a try, ‘way back then, but … Continue reading →

DiFi escapes confinement, makes statement: Dianne Feinstein announced Wednesday that she’s re-entering the battle over gun control during her keynote speech to the California delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Feinstein was president of the San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors … Continue reading →

It probably has to do with his upbringing. LB’s mother is a cat, after all. She used to bring him rabbits. LB likes cats. Even so it took him a week – and a visit from Dharma, Landlady’s pup, who … Continue reading →

Look what it does to your brain!

…I like what they say. Go here for a whole bunch of pictures of weird-looking P226’s SIG makes right in their very own factory. I presume they believe someone will want to buy them. People tend to like what they’re … Continue reading →

I see from this article that the state of Virginia has approved the addition of three minor party candidates on the state’s ballot. That’s unimportant and uninteresting in itself – neither candidate has a chance to win. Collectively, though, their … Continue reading →

There are some things I like to do that WordPress does better than Blogger, and some that are the other thing. One thing it was effectively impossible to do in Blogger was insert MP3 files. I mean it was possible, … Continue reading →

I do not belong to government. End of conversation.

Seriously. Unless she’s asleep, if a video starts playing on the laptop she runs right over to watch. Never saw a cat do that.

I’ve got nothing against Schulman, but the truth is I barely remember Alongside Night, and what I remember about it is that it wasn’t very good. It’s a talky, self-important (IOW, pretty typical) tome about AnCap economic theory thinly disguised … Continue reading →

…Landlady brought the boys one of those 15-pound boxes of ginormous dog biscuits from Costco. We did that once before, and though they’re handy those boxes do pose a bit of a storage issue in The Secret Lair. I made … Continue reading →

Claire, in her never-ending quest to get my mornings off to an angry start, posts a link to what appears to be an unusually horrifying puppycide. “The dog hadn’t even barked, yet I heard one of them say, he’s aggressive, … Continue reading →

Two cats remind me when Those hippies CSN Recorded their dumb ditty With this tuuuuune… Momma Click is showing signs of lightening up. No, she still hates the kitten and wants her dead. But at least she’ll voluntarily enter the … Continue reading →