Author Archives: Joel

And I was in such a good mood. Had a little … well, not even little, an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny … disaster yesterday afternoon. After rigging the solar panels and my newly sorta-kinda refurbished storage batteries together with the charge controller, … Continue reading →

Okay, I’m just doing this for snark, because I’m not a constitution-worshiper myself and I don’t even know who this guy is so his opinion is pretty much completely meaningless to me. But Congressman, when you say “I don’t think … Continue reading →

So said Landlady after six freaking hours putting up tongue & groove cedar on her front overhang. And I thank whatever gods there may be that the house only has the one overhang. This is the answer to my old … Continue reading →

Well, I went to town today, hoping to buy a new pair of boots. Found the boots for quite a bit less than I feared, and did something completely frivolous with some of the surplus. I bought myself one of … Continue reading →

Stupid foreign policy? James Hansen, the head of one of President Barack Obama’s NASA labs, came to Canada last week to tell us not to allow a French company called Total to proceed with its Canadian oilsands project. Even for … Continue reading →

Oh, man. I’ve been loosening the leash on Little Bear for some time, and thinking we were making real progress. He maybe goes down the slope alone for activities in the pursuit of which any of us would prefer privacy, … Continue reading →

…has been in there, off and on, for the past few days and as usual I couldn’t begin to tell you why. I could only remember two lines, and one of them was wrong. Didn’t know what group recorded it. … Continue reading →

Okay, so M’s tractor is running fine now, right? So naturally it needs a better test. I fired it up this morning and drove it to J&H’s to move some manure during my regular shit-shoveling visit, and it didn’t give … Continue reading →

Seriously. I could post the clip here, I do it enough, but … Nah. I really don’t want him here. Maybe if all was well and you could sit down and know that your livelihood was taken care of and … Continue reading →

Landlady’s been having some financial troubles of her own, for which “while you’re building a house” is never a good time. But that’s what friends are for, and yesterday we passed a milestone. We (well, she) got the breaker box … Continue reading →

So this morning I’m down in the Meadow House helping Landlady do some wiring. We installed the breaker box, I stripped a bunch of wire, then she went to work wiring the box while M and I installed outlets. M … Continue reading →

Joseph Sobran is dead. Why should I care about a columnist when – left or right – I usually just keep them around for laughs? Sobran seemed to be an unusually honest and courageous one. Once an up-and-coming conservative pundit, … Continue reading →

It’s not easy work being part of the leftist intelligentsia, but those six impossible beliefs aren’t going to be entertained before breakfast all by themselves!

U.S. District Judge, George Streeh, of the Eastern District of Michigan ruled that Congress does have the authority to enact a key part of President Obama’s healthcare law reform, requiring US citizens to obtain coverage by 2014. The day Obama … Continue reading →

Finally. There’s a bit of insulation I never got around to installing in the Lair, because, well, I dreaded it. It’s the part of the side walls between the main stretch and the rather radically pitched roof, and I put … Continue reading →

Don’t bother answering that, I already know. Children are bad for the environment, because they may grow up to be carnivores or even (gasp) entrepreneurs. Unlike polar bears, which only eat baby seals alive. “Act-Responsible” is apparently an advertising group, … Continue reading →

So I got the engine running on the tractor. Yay me. Took long enough, but then I was just doing it in spare minutes, right? Not my tractor. But then, having let it warm up through posting the previous, er, … Continue reading →

Alternate Title: “It was working fine before I fixed it.” Yes, after only about eight attempts at what turned out to be a very simple but apparently futile maintenance procedure, HPAV Gulchendiggensmoothen decided this afternoon that it had tortured me … Continue reading →

I’m not a big fan of his oratorical style, but he didn’t handle this very badly. I wouldn’t have played it up quite so big, but then I’m not Obama.

I am sitting in the cell phone lot at the Indy airport right now. This is simply a small lot a mile or more from the terminal where you can park whilst waiting for someone to arrive and call you. … Continue reading →