A friend of George, II’s was down for a week. You know how that goes, what trying to be the “good host” and all. When in the “useful parent mode” I don’t wake people up until they get up on their own accord. But, let me tell you something, oh my God, can people sleep. … Read More
You may not be a frequent visitor to BrainTomorrow.com. But their article today lays out exactly the kind of topology of dying that I covered in my book “Packing to Die: Suitcase between your ears…” that I’ll be on George Noory’s Coast-to-Coast-AM talking about Tuesday night/Wednesday morning (depending on your time zone). The article is must-read. … Read More
[Reader Note: My life-long “brother by a different mother” of 70 years – the Major – finally made it home from Mexico – where his wife suffered a burst appendix almost a week ago. They got in around 10:45 PM last night. “Thanks my Bro’ for your support and the prayers of so many of your readers … Read More
Everyone has a messy shop, to one degree, or another. I’m just more guilty than most because of my youth. See, my Main Hobby was ham radio. When you work on a radio, you do whatever repairs and adjustments are needed. Then seamlessly slide into playing with it. There’s no logical “break in the action” … Read More
Our current ShopTalk project is coming along just great. It’s the 10 X 20-foot vegetable garden add-on to the side of the recording studio. This week, I got serious about the “finishing touches” and – if you worry about radioactive leftovers – here are some of the design parameters that have fallen into place. Although … Read More
Mood-setting and motivation: Russian war in world’s ‘breadbasket’ threatens food supply | AP News Let’s talk first about Design Creep. Although we have yet to eat a single plant from our 20-foot by 10 add-on Garden Room off the recording studio, it has sure been a pleasure in terms of “build.” Honestly, some of the … Read More
With the Big Birthday party (a six-pack of Rolling Rock and a prime rib) the mind wanders to more suitable foods for an aging gent with an eye on 90. Getting to 73 wasn’t too tough. But, good friends, strong personal boundaries, and staying active sure helps. So, attention is now turned on the garden, … Read More
Had the weather stayed a bit warmer Saturday, I would have wired up a solar panel, charge controller, knife switch, and the on-demand 12 VDC water pump for the rainwater fresh H2O catchment system. Made me remember to write down some notes about parallels between home ownership and living on a sailboat as I did … Read More
Two items to go over today. One is the visiting firefighter learns cutting and welding. The other is a longish discussion of tool use. To hell with Covid. I have a bigger problem: Messy Bench Disease. MBD. One of the continuing problems around the ranch – and my office – is that I have a … Read More
Adventures in Data: Let’s begin with a couple of “news searches” on a reliable interface to the Google platform. Like DuckDuckGo. We notice an odd thing when comes to “reposting news” and thereby finding monetization of “hot” button stories. Do the simple search like [Ukraine] today and we see three of the stories are reposts … Read More
A third of the way into January, the rains have returned to Texas. Those couple of weeks rounding-out December, were nothing more than sucker-punches for the unwary. From the outside project table, under the off-square rannygaboo (Americanized from the more proper rannygazoo) rain cover, there were projects lined up as far are the eye could … Read More
We offer our Christmas 2021 ebook on anti-aging experiments we’ve been conducting. Think of this as the “personal live-fire drill” as time marches on. At 4o+ pages, this is one of our longer reports and thus we provide it as bot a .PDF and EPUB so you can pop it into your ebook reader or … Read More
With the one-day delay in turkey overdosing (the second effort was fabulously successful – 2 lbs. worth of personal weight gain, lol), there was enough tryptophan load to keep my blood pressure and motivation on the zero peg most of Saturday. Made a few Christmas scribbles before addressing a tractor issue…plotted my revenge against conformity. … Read More