Author Archives: Joel

I blew out my back yesterday evening. No big deal, it happens now and then and I’ll be fine in a few days though it usually gives me more warning. Now that I’ve got a place to put stuff out … Continue reading →

Got a text message from my weekender neighbors S&L yesterday afternoon. “We’ll be there at 8 pm.” Their little car having no 4X4 capability, it was up to me to meet them since nobody not intimately familiar with the landscape … Continue reading →

So I finish up my shit-shoveling. Drop off some water for H that I’d picked up at D&L’s yesterday evening, when I went to get the tobacco that they picked up for me on their trip to the big town. … Continue reading →

…and if I’m interpreting it correctly, the handoff has been made. I told Click she was getting a new sidekick, and she reacted with complete indifference. Oddly, that’s the way she reacts to everything I tell her. We’ll see how … Continue reading →

Sometimes when I’m stuck for something to stick in here so you’ll think I’m thinking deeply, I surf Youtube videos. Did you know that if you type “dumbass gun video” into the search window, you can pretty much kiss the … Continue reading →

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Not really SFW… So how’d they do? It’s #4 on the iTunes list, second only to the three Shades of Grey books. Which I’m told, though I have no firsthand knowledge, are also terrible.

Reading Claire, I see one of her friends is going to the repub convention as a Ron Paul delegate, but is having a hard time wrapping his/her mind around some of the restrictions, necessary for your safety… Apparently the delegates … Continue reading →

Clouds have rolled in and thunder is booming, so it’ll likely cool off some now. I got the boys out of Gitmo and am preparing to settle down til evening. If it isn’t raining, I’ll put the finishing touches on … Continue reading →

“He didn’t invent iron ore and blast furnaces, did he?” “Who?” “Rearden. He didn’t invent smelting and chemistry and air compression. He couldn’t have invented his Metal but for thousands and thousands of other people. His Metal! Why does he … Continue reading →

I wonder if she knows what she’s getting into? It’ll either be a long, happy life with lots of friends and interesting things to do and smell, or … not. We’re getting ready to do the kitten thing again. It’s … Continue reading →

In other news, maybe she’ll tell us what became of the pig.

…to upgrading your solar electrical system at the height – or depth, whatever – of Monsoon. It’s been over a week and I still don’t know what my new PV panel is capable of. Still struggling along at 35% or … Continue reading →

There basically only seem to be two sorts of snakes around here: King snakes and all the many varieties of rattlesnake. This makes snake identification easy. If it doesn’t have rattles on its tail, it’s harmless. Even beneficial, because they’re … Continue reading →

Okay, so I was wr not as right as I usually am about the condition of the wash. I judged it by the condition of the crossing near Landlady’s place, which wasn’t torn up bad at all. But having given … Continue reading →

I question the utility of this video. It’s long, it’s very negative, and I doubt very much that it will change a single mind. It’s foolish to attack the people you’re trying to convince. Maybe he isn’t trying to convince … Continue reading →

One fifty-pound sack of flour nicely fills two six-gallon food buckets. Also, those Sterilite tubs are largely but not completely rodent-resistant. Rats can chew through them, but mostly leave them alone. Not really sure why, but my last sack of … Continue reading →

…and thereby creating a loverly black market. Heh. “Cardboard poaching,” as it’s become known, is a multimillion-dollar cancer growing in the diseased corpus of recycling crime. Though the media have lately zeroed in on scrap-metals theft and restaurant-grease rustling, the … Continue reading →

DHS gears up for civil unrest prior to presidential conventions And by “gear up,” they mean “buy a whole bunch more gear.” Because you can’t let the local po-po have all the fun, I guess? I dunno. Either way, judging … Continue reading →