I’m sure you’ve all heard about the wildfires raging across California since that bizarre lightning storm ignited tens of thousands of acres of dry kindling that the Sierra Club’s lawyers blocked anyone from clearing for decades. As a result, the Tobaks have magically morphed into a family of meandering nomads[…] Read On
The phone is ringing. We stopped answering it years ago. Now it just records robocalls and stuff. Why even have a home phone? Our property has a gate. The home phone controls the gate. My not-so-smart home guy has a plan to fix that — along with half a dozen[…] Read On
Whether you realize it or not, you’re on a path. You can look back and see exactly how you got to where you stand today. The path ahead is far more nebulous, of course, but it’s still a path. Your actions and decisions help to define it, as do all[…] Read On
“Remember when all we had to worry about was entitlement spending, dealing with millennials and where to go for dinner?” said Paul. On Zoom, natch. “Look at us now. We’re seriously f—ed.” “Don’t worry bro,” I said in that reassuring voice I reserve for close friends contemplating suicide, ” It’ll[…] Read On
It looks like the world’s favorite virus has mutated and become more infectious, so say virologists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Scripps Research in Florida. As if it wasn’t infectious enough already. Just what we needed. In case you’re wondering how this mutations stuff works, it goes like this:[…] Read On
I’m a big DIY guy. I fix. Build. Landscape. Repair. Drop trees and make firewood. You name it, I DIY it. At any given time I’ve got like 9 or 10 projects going on around here. I do all sorts of stuff that normal people pay other people to do.[…] Read On
When I informed him that I’m finally getting my hair cut and teeth cleaned, Bob M — who spends his life gleefully perusing blogs, podcasts and videos so I don’t have to — said, “You will more feel human again.” He was right; I do feel more human again. And[…] Read On