Author Archives: Joel

er…if you call this water… Screw technology, we hauled it up with a rope and a weighted coffee can. Well’s drilled to something just less than 300 feet, but we found the surface at 110 which tells us there’s lots … Continue reading →

A new pack of three dogs has joined us at the gulch, and you’re probably not going to hear very much about two of them. I cannot omit Beauty, though, because she’s quite the little ambassador. She decided right away … Continue reading →

Okay. Things are finally settling down a bit, I found my old copy of PhotoShop and loaded on this box so I can screw with pictures, and maybe now I can breath enough to update this sucker. M, W and … Continue reading →

…gets kinda weird. Imagine going through all of a busy day with this in your head: Pity me. Pity me lots. All sorts of things going on, pictures and all, but it’s been quite a day and I just got … Continue reading →

And once again news items which have brought the world to its very knees passed me by without notice. Apparently yesterday Michael Jackson went to see for himself which afterlife myth is true. Since everybody else on the tubez seems … Continue reading →

Major computer crash last Friday morning; black screen of death, checksum errors all over the place, flames racing down the fuselage headed for the fuel, oil squirting on the windscreen! She’s going down! And I don’t think she’s coming back. … Continue reading →

Well, we didn’t make a lot of progress on the shower today. I had a bit more energy than the previous two days, but my mind was mush this morning and I wasn’t going to take on an unfamiliar plumbing … Continue reading →

This is actually a couple of days old, but I was too sick to care. Al the Propane Guy came and, apparently finding no objections to our system plausible enough to continue denying us propane, actually installed a propane tank. … Continue reading →

Ah hab a code. Ids in by dose. Coodent sleep, cus I coodent breed. Dose all stobbed ub. Yesterday was worse; yesterday I really felt like shit and couldn’t have done anything strenuous if you put an RPG to my … Continue reading →

Uh…surreal. Yeah. I’ve managed to catch the cold the stakeholders brought back, and it’s untimely as hell. The very morning I hoped to make some serious progress on converting the secret lair from a series of holes in the ground … Continue reading →

Oh…wait.Yes, our dear Safety Czar, Janet Napolitano, has saved the day. Napolitano actually signed Arizona’s version of the Middle-Finger Law opting out of Real ID last year, but that was then. Now she’s playing for the big leagues, and that … Continue reading →

Dovetailing nicely with the song in my head. Wonderful baby, living on loveThe sandman says maybe he’ll take you aboveUp where the girls fly on ribbons and bowsWhere babies float by, just counting their toes…

I recently took delivery on a sheath modification for a knife I’ve owned for a few years but never carried because the sheath drove me crazy. I wanted it to be more like the Kydex sheath on my everyday knife, … Continue reading →

The babies at nine days. So far no additions to the extended family, but any day now.

Round Up Hate-Promoters Now, Before Any More Holocaust Museum Attacks It’s not enough to prosecute these murders as murders. They are hate-motivated crimes and each of these men had been under some sort of police surveillance prior to their actions. … Continue reading →

Analysis: US must limit Afghan civilian deaths You might think this is a no-brainer from every conceivable moral and ethical angle. This is, of course, not the reason the military brass is considering the possibility of not slaughtering innocent people … Continue reading →

That leaves one for the dogs to gnaw on, which will make them happy and provide healthsome exercise! Woman narrowly survives harrowing encounter with … coyotes? Yer shittin’ me. Mary Burke, 47, was out walking her four Labrador retrievers at … Continue reading →

The two stakeholders who are moving in arrived early yesterday afternoon after a long, slow but thankfully uneventful trip. There was food and other arrangements to work out, a big trailer to empty, a few tons of stuff to find … Continue reading →

So we’ve got a little time on our hands. I got a call from one of the stakeholders, saying they wouldn’t be in until sometime mid-day tomorrow. There’s bread in the breadmaker, it unexpectedly rained like hell overnight, and I … Continue reading →