Category: General

It was the Christmas of 1996. I had been there since August and had built my treehouse. I had found an old set of skis and some boots and decided to go skiing down a logging road. It was a hard climb up to where I wanted to shove off from, but I got up…

So there I was, unable to sell the ’63 Kenworth RV, mainly because it had a manual transmission that folks who had money didn’t know how to drive. Anne was getting anxious and wanted to see some movement. I was out of my element and just couldn’t seem to sell it. So after explaining the…

“Embrace the suck”. Character comes from suffering, so I hope everyone has a good dose of suffering in their lives. The business failed? The job is pure drudgery? Your spouse is going nuts? Your children are spinning out of control? Great! This is where your really learn to live. There’s a quaint old analogy about…

No Dr. Nefario, you’re not going to win. Stupid physics… It’s one of those facts that water freezes when the temperature drops below that magic number. It’s 32° Fahrenheit, or 0° Celsius, and bloody frustrating when it happens to do it in your waterlines! Not to mention damaging as it expands in the pipes and…

As I was driving beside a high tension powerline one evening, it dawned on me, our entire civilization is hanging by a thread. Entire cities have their electrical power supplied through these fragile threads called wires. Never mind an EMP pulse or a solar flare, all it would take to bring our civilization to a…

I was at a home Depot one afternoon and saw one of the orange bib guys on a forklift getting ready to drop a big wire spool into a dumpster. Seeing my new potential waterwheel, I asked him if I could have it, and he put it into the back of my pickup. It was…