Very interesting article at The New Republic about the possibility that air travel - and air freight - might be getting a whole lot more expensive over the next several years. The basic thrust (hah!) is that air flight requires enormous amounts of fuel, and there’s no equivalent of the Prius or the electric car [...]
A brief aside here - I’ve been bemoaning the lack of lemonade in my fridge this summer, in part because I don’t like the taste of a lot of store-bought juice, in part because I’ve been trying to cut down on the high fructose corn syrup, and in part because the price of lemons has [...]
As he picked up his hammer and saw . . .
(No, I do not get tired of that joke. Yes, I know it’s not particularly funny.)
Had an eye exam today. Got off to a good start when the doctor took a look at my glasses and said “I had forgotten how nearsighted you are.” Went [...]
I was up at 5:30 this morning and went around the corner to pick up some milk. I’ve managed to avoid any kind of nap since then. I got up pretty early on Monday, and did the same on Tuesday before falling back to sleep for a nap. Still, it has me thinking that maybe [...]
Back when I was in college, I sometimes lost track of projects or deadlines. I decided to get more organized and follow the example of my boss and picked up a planner with refillable calendar pages. Making To Do lists with the planner was helpful, although I sometimes dropped the habit for lengthy periods of [...]
My mother has a crate of old LPs that has she has dutifully kept organized and taken with her as she’s moved. Every so often at a family gathering she asks if anyone wants any of the vinyl albums. I admit I have picked out a couple of records I listened to as a kid, [...]
I’m back from my educational psychology class, and there have been a couple of things running through my head since the summer session started:
1. I can not believe that this is an elective within the education program and not a mandatory introduction class. Maybe it’s just the bookworm in me, but getting this kind of [...]
Couple of points learned during today’s errand-running:
1. Clothespins are much harder to find than I thought they would be. I’ve looked in department stores, drug stores, and a Bed Bath and Beyond, and no luck. From the Amazon searches I did when I got home tonight, it looks like hardware stores might be my best [...]
We went to an unfinished furniture store today and ordered a new oak TV stand for our living room. Pattie will stain this to match the other furniture, in between dancing jigs about the demise of our existing entertainment center, which she has wanted to obliterate for the last four years.
The trick now is to [...]
Spent five hours yesterday smoking beef brisket, my first really elaborate outdoor cooking of the year. There’s something aggravating yet satisfying about feeding another three or four briquettes into the grill every half hour or so to keep the temperature in low 200s. Of course, in the process, I wind up smelling thoroughly like smoked [...]