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A few minutes after 5 AM in East Texas. I’m in “the chair” and locked to do battle with the “smell-checker” while keeping the rapier wit honed to a surgical edge. EXCEPT: It’s a “Day off.” Well…sort of.  This week is my 77th birthday.  And I’d like to thank the U.S. Congress for one of the … Read More

Fortunately, I didn’t have to spend much time with the daily tracking of the “luny left” because Reader Ray laid it all out in a Comment section remark here in response to the Saturday Peoplenomics report: When Price Stops Mattering, Brace yourself. Because the core concept on the layout table today is from the old … Read More

Or: Why Domains Matter When the Game Is On and the Store Is Closed (OK, there is a ShopTalk: Pay reader Egor the “over.”) We’re Not “Game” Super Bowl Sunday is a funny day. Half the country is focused on a ball game, the other half is pretending they don’t care, and somewhere around kickoff a … Read More

I was planning to have my little deck project done a long time ago.  I was able, materials were on hand, but something else held me back:  weather. See, when you hit 77 you’ll find a little “voice alarm” that will go off in Ure head.  “Cut yourself some slack…you deserve to enjoy a build like … Read More

The Preface: I like driving on ice.  However, I don’t like paying for the damage.  Like G2 who has his all-wheel drive being fixed because even AWD and ABS (and a good clean driving record) can’t fix an unsanded patch of black ice, a quarter inch thick – at a stop sign – that should … Read More

Power, Prices, and Preparedness: Three talking points with the hash browns: What Trump said in Greenland, what it means, and how he’s out on the margins now. Markets slammed through the 85-Day average to the downside.  This is likely the rally above before lower. And the Mainstream again underscores its failure to empower the people … Read More

Ham radios are like women, sports cars, airplanes, and sailboats.  Your enjoyment of any of these will depend on careful consideration of your “use case”. However, if your use case is “spend all your money” my experiments indicate that even a thoughtless collection of two or three of the above will work fine. Which has … Read More

No, not a typo… I didn’t quite get around to the deck completion this week because of a bout of chest cold and asthma – not my idea of fun.  And then, as I was creeping out of the crud, it was cold and rainy weather. Since I know the boss around here, I told … Read More

Wherein we nail the art of getting hammered.  So to speak. Last time we talked about the Deck it was mainly in “engineering” and “time management” and that kind of falderall.  But now, we get into the next 2-1/2 hours of the project. After the 63-minutes, of whatever it was (previous episode) the actual building  part was supposed … Read More

As always, busy as the hubs of Hades around here the past week, or so.  Good weather doesn’t come often enough. When it does, we like to get things done. That may sound easy.  But there’s the whole sub-topic of time management (in management sciences) where we delve more than waist-deep into “task-switching.” This also came … Read More

Is this really ShopTalk?   Maybe: It’s really about aging, agency, risk, and dignity.  Let me read you in. Every so often a reader letter lands that isn’t really about tools — it’s about starting over.  Two things stood out in this week’s mailbag:  First, it comes from a long-time reader – she’s 73.  And she lost everything … Read More

This is the time of the year when men tend to hurt themselves.  Lifting more than they should. Later on today, Elaine and I will be moving a new 85″ TV into position.  Sure, we MIGHT have called in (neighbors) to help.  But where is the challenge in that? But it gets me to a … Read More