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Making the fans happy

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OK, well, fan, singular. And not one of mine, yet. Let me explain. Several weeks back I took wife to her dermatology appointment. While we were waiting for the doctor to come in to see… 

Not the brightest bulb

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Sugar Bear was the wife’s previous Siberian Husky. He measured six feet long from tip of his nose to the end of his tail. He passed away several years ago. He was a good dog.… 

Cleaning your truck with sideways thinking

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Back when I was living in my last apartment I had a Ford Ranger truck. She was red, the smallest truck Ford made, and she got me reliably from point A to point B. I… 

Well rested?

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Sirocco has take to getting me up in the middle of the night, anytime between 4:00 AM to 6:30 AM. Whenever one of the dogs gets me up in the middle of the night I… 

Did your gravity reverse today?

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So, today there was a total solar eclipse across Greenland, Iceland, and Northern Spain. Other places on Planet Earth had partial eclipses. Here in my area we had some cloud cover at the time so… 

August, and its cool in the morning

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OK, I have stated it before but I reiterate, I’m a Southern Boy. I grew up in Texas, with a few years spent in New Orleans. One things about The South is that it is… 

And … we’re back

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So, Saturday I posted how I upgraded the installation of WordPress on my blog and things went a little wonky. Technology is great up until the point it stops working. Sometimes I wonder if it… 

WordPress is great, until its not

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The other day I saw that there was a new version of WordPress available. Hosting companies like it when you stay up-to-date on the software you use that runs on their servers. It makes things… 

That time I (almost) ran into Jeremy Irons

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Back in 2007, when I accompanied the wife and her family to my step-daughters wedding in Ireland, we did a whirlwind tour of the country. The step-daughter got married at Sligo Castle in County Sligo.… 

Follow-up on the gutters

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Sorry about the radio silence yesterday, my Hordeling. Too much to do, not enough time to do it in. This morning the second crew from the gutter repair place came by. Crew isn’t entirely accurate.…