Hey, all. Just a quick update since things are going well: I've been chugging along with my commissions and have made it through all of my new commissioners as of yesterday night. I'll be starting the repeat customers probably today or maybe tomorrow (gotta go into work today, so that adds a couple of hours … Continue reading The Joys of Axes

I've been fascinated by the thought of direct air capture and have watched a few videos on it, but inevitably, they always come back to pumping CO2 underground, and I can't help think to myself: What a waste—there are so many products we use that have high carbon content; why not use that carbon for … Continue reading An Idea for Excess CO2 Removal

Phew, what a whirlwind it's been since my last post! I had thought that things would slow down once the tiny house got here, but it turns out there was just more work to be done once it did! My dad and I got the electrical hooked up, and I got the water hooked up. … Continue reading Status Update 2020-12-13

The election has been called for Biden, and for that I'm grateful and relieved. However, the closeness of the election has given me pause. A big pause. I have never liked Trump, and it's not because I'm anti-conservative. I lean fiscally conservative myself. What I dislike about him is his divisiveness, the rude and disparaging … Continue reading Relief and Reflection

The last six or so weeks have been, in a word, insane. I paid off the land and then promptly ended up in the hospital for five days with diverticulitis. While that was not "enjoyable", it did light a fire under my ass to get out of the camper. I was lying there on the … Continue reading Status Update 2020-10-29

I wanted to make this a poem, but the words and meter escaped me. So, prose it is. They sit alone, their surroundings intimate. One warm, one cool, they feel each other out. Lips find muzzle, fingers twitch. But be careful: not too fast. Go to savor it. Gently, fingers: mind the 0.125. Their hearts … Continue reading 0.125

As you guys know, I've been struggling with what I perceive to be an awful lot of blind animosity in the US right now. It's disheartening since I don't really know what to do about it. I certainly don't have the solutions to the country's complex problems—I haven't even experienced a tenth of the country, … Continue reading E Pluribus Veritas

The fire didn't help my mood today, so I guess it's time to get everything off my chest. This year has been really hard, and I don't just mean COVID-19, the utter lack of social life, the months and months of isolation, or the complete clusterfuck that is the government's response to it. This year … Continue reading Status Update 2020-08-15

I don't write many entries like this, but having just watched Hamilton, it seems now is as good a time as any to get this off my chest. To you who hate the right, to you who hate the left; to you who hate the Boomers, to you who hate the Millennials; to you who … Continue reading A Word from a Frustrated Moderate

Okay, random comment, but also bits of status update (sheesh, I think I've posted more in the last two days than all of last year combined...maybe I like even years). Watched a musician / comedian called Victor Borge for a while; he's dead, but YouTube has captured some very funny moments of his. Then again, … Continue reading Gosh, I Miss My Keyboard