It's been 10 days since the surgery. The incision site doesn't seem too tender and actual bone that was worked on isn't too pain...

I've been rereading Emerson's essay on Self-Reliance and sustainability. Foremost in my thoughts about it at this point is that I t...

I've been recovering from a surgery I had this week - Metatarsophalangeal Joint Arthrodesis. The lines on the above image only roughly r...

Dad's obituary was in the weekly paper one year ago today, along with a photo of him with his motorcycle (although they cropped most of ...

I just downloaded Chrome. Seems like it renders text ala Firefox, images come across well, and it is FAST,FAST, FAST in regard to scripts an...

Last year at this time I saw my father for the very last time. He was laying on a table in the mortuary. Cold and smooth. I touched his fa...

I started this blog on August 2nd of last year. I had just learned my father was dying of lung cancer. The bridge in Minneapolis had just co...

I made the biggest mistake I can remember making. My father was dying. We knew this. Over the last few days he had nearly stopped eating. Th...

September always brings new budgets in our house. Every year, at this time of year, at least one person in the household (and probably more)...

A few days ago I posted a link to a NY Times article about the Endangered Species Act and some upcoming changes the Bush administration want...

This weekend I got a very dramatic lesson in how tire pressure affects gas mileage - from my bicycle. Abelisto and I usually ride our bikes...

Got some advice from Jon (a veteran mead & wine maker) concerning the mead. He said to date it and put it in a dark, cool place for 12 m...

Tonight Eli and I bottled the first batch of mead. This mead was made with honey from a local beekeeper that we got at the Farmer's Mar...

Normally I do not regurgitate content from other websites. However this is something I think needs to be passed along: NY Times Editorial - ...

I have not posted on here for a few days - mostly because I was busy getting some things done. There is this thing about doing and/or writin...

Usually I stay away from Ebay. For a number of reasons - mainly I like to see and touch what I buy before I do so, However this week I found...

Tonight I took the tapestry off of the loom. Once the piece was relaxed, once the tension was normalized, the selvedge issue became much les...

I did not work on the tapestry last night. I had wanted to go to the DFL Tech committee meeting, get lots of work done and then come home an...

Last night I started taking the tapestry off of the loom. Thought I should stop at one point and refresh my memory of how this would best be...

I did not finish the tapestry this weekend. Instead I did some weaving on it, but I spent much of today building a new tapestry frame loom. ...