Author Archives: Joel

You ever have one of those days? Hardly any sun at all this morning, which means I shouldn’t even be typing this. I’ve been wanting to go to town for some time, and this would have been a perfect day … Continue reading →

It’s true what they say, you know. A backhoe can do hours of damage in a few seconds, if you stick it in the ground just right. J wanted me to bury some dog shit for him. He had a … Continue reading →

…this lady is invited to die screaming if she wants to, waiting for Big Brother to come save her. H/T to Claire.

I wonder about people sometimes. Otherwise perfectly sane people can be so wrapped up in their own delusions that what seems completely obvious to you and me is as opaque to them as the thickest wall. I haven’t followed any … Continue reading →

I’ve felt bad for some time that I always keep Little Bear confined, when during the time we had a proper pack the boys charged around and did whatever they wanted. Back then, they never rarely got themselves into trouble. … Continue reading →

…I’m convinced there’s something a lot less sophisticated than we like to think. Rainy afternoon yesterday. After a cloudless start to the day, the clouds began rolling in around ten and it settled down to a steady all-day rain such … Continue reading →

I need a phone booth. Yeah, that’d fix everything. Then I could dart inside, rip off my raggedy-ass t-shirt, and become WEBSITE DESIGNER GUY! Yeah, that’d fix everything. But I was an auto mechanic once, you know. And then I … Continue reading →

…and I want to be secure in the knowledge that you’re not thinking very much about me.

My site! My beautiful not completely hideous site now looks like something laying around since the mid-nineties! I thought the sidebar gone entirely, but now most of it is dumped on the bottom of the page, and some seems to … Continue reading →

Couldn’t get on my own damn blog all day yesterday. On-line help was, of course, no help at all. This morning in something fairly like unto desperation I sent a message to the guy from whom my little site is … Continue reading →

Hee. This needs to be the meme of all memes. And I would build it stand aside while the government built it. If only I knew what the hell a “meme” was.

You wouldn’t think it would be this hard to get it right. My power/storage shed is only eight by eight. Yeah, most of the dimensional lumber is salvaged from an old shed I tore down – that wasn’t built all … Continue reading →

I always used to wonder how the U.S. tax system was “voluntary,” when guns and barred cages are involved. Fortunately we have Harry Reid to explain it to us. So it’s voluntary because in addition to being forced to fork … Continue reading →

Looks cool, doesn’t it? If I had an AR I’d at least toy with the idea of having one around, though I like to think I’d never carry it in public unless the public consisted of just under 100 brain-craving … Continue reading →

And of course haters gotta hate. Though I notice the writer never addresses a thing they actually say about F&F…

Get a load of this guy… “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Really? That’s not my experience. I’ve worked for some entrepreneurs, people who built happened to occupy offices within businesses that … Continue reading →

…is that it requires this thing called the “sun.” And you wouldn’t think that would be a big problem when you live in the arid high desert, right? Yeah. I need an emergency back-up squirrel for my inverter, which is … Continue reading →

My friend Geiger Counter Guy is going through an LED phase. Don’t ask: He has…enthusiasms. Anyway, he turned me on to this little thing, which unlike some of the other gadgets Fedex has delivered lately (A remote-controlled LED bulb that … Continue reading →

Unfrickinbelievable. Henrico police shoot pet as they notify family of son’s homicide Officer Friendly proves that officer safety is more important than absolutely anything. Jeez, why didn’t he just shoot the kid’s mom while he was at it? Go and … Continue reading →