Second day on the ice—-oh, have I become a couch potato…

Leaves and roots are next. I skate 30 minutes, nearly fall down on a simple inside arc (because I stood up from proper posture, —standing up shifts your weight forward, your weight going forward on the blade slowed my glide down, and the laws of physics say that...

Pond shutdown.

There’s a job. Our Shinmaywa pump (a monster) drives a 2″ hose 30′, the last 4′ of which climbs 4′, which is a pretty potent pump. A simple hose clamp to be undone every year has the potential to a) blow off or b) be a bear. So they gave...

Don't forget to sleep extra tomorrow morning.

Spring forward, fall back—it’s the end of Daylight Savings Time. Jane and I decided to do the ultimate alarm clock—instead of racket, a timed light with a bright bulb. We couldn’t find fixtures we liked—for ceilings with no wiring-box,...

Don’t forget to sleep extra tomorrow morning.

Spring forward, fall back—it’s the end of Daylight Savings Time. Jane and I decided to do the ultimate alarm clock—instead of racket, a timed light with a bright bulb. We couldn’t find fixtures we liked—for ceilings with no wiring-box,...

The curse of 500,000…

When I started my webpage back in (mmf-mmf-mff) the 1990’s or late ’80’s…I had a hit counter. A year or so on, it died, it died. I gave myself 350,000 posts (as a very conservative estimate) and reconstituted it. As it was in, I think, the...

Blood Red Moon and Rusalka…

….are up! Think of Blood Red Moon as the Starsky and Hutch of vampire stories—Jane will kill me for that; and Rusalka is a ghost story. Happy Halloween, all!

The diet's working…an update.

15 lbs down. We started on Atkins, then slipped over to REAL South Beach, and from that point on, though occasionally eating more than we want, we’re losing. Why REAL South Beach? Ever since South Beach licensed their name and logo to Kraft, people have gotten a...