Last Refuge of a Scoundrel

 Once upon a time I worked on my own cars because I enjoyed it, and it saved me money.  Nowadays I'm OK with paying someone else to do i...

 59 laps complete as of yesterday.

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FExBwfQHXlE

 Several years ago, mostly to spite a doctor, I got myself on a low carb diet and ended up losing about 50 pounds in total. Unfortunately si...

I am no longer a Subaru owner. Way back in 2019 the motor spun the rod bearings (totally my fault), so I bought the Jeep. In 2020 I found a...

Following up from my last post, today I took a couple of pounds of tomatoes, an onion, and some garlic from the garden and made tomato sauce...

   Mrs Hades has green things growing. Today we chopped up a zucchini and cooked it with chicken. Then we went out and harvested onions an...

In my last post I was complaining about FedEx. They did finally deliver, and so did UPS. I spent that next weekend happily assembling my fir...

Three packages from Palmetto State Armory were supposed to be delivered to me today via FedEx. I saw the FedEx truck a few doors down from m...

Cooking is messy, and if done right it takes a long time. Most of the time taken in cooking is in the preparation. It takes a while to do th...

Here in NC the State Health Plan board of trustees has voted to raise insurance premiums on some state retirees . Retirees. Those who served...

 A friend of mine just buried his mother the Monday following Easter Sunday. It makes me miss my mother more than ever.

 The trip to Iowa was uneventful. The funeral was Monday, December 11th. There were a good number of people and Mom was remembered fondly. ...

What they found was massive necrosis of the bowels. The docs had to remove 40 cm (that's 16 inches) of bowel to re-establish the stoma, ...

 This time no one is liking what the docs are saying. UPDATE: I just talked to Brother, who is NOT an hysterical basket case like Elder Sist...

 My father has it. I have been constantly amazed at my Dad, sitting at the bedside while the other half of his soul lies there. When it was ...

 I would like to say, for the record, that most medical professionals are indeed professional. During my mother's previous stay in the h...

Thanksgiving day found my parents in Northern Virginia at my favorite niece's house (how do I know she's my favorite? Because she te...

   Electronic locks are sketchy at best, especially gun safe locks. Let's face it, if you have an electronic lock the entire thing can ...

 Mrs. Hades has gone back to school and so have I. Mrs. Hades is, of course, a teacher, and I am starting on my last class for the degree th...

The auger broke on the second day (Wednesday). It hit a rock, spun out of my hands and broke both the bolts on the spring that holds the two...

 I've taken my two work-days off this week, not to travel and celebrate the holidays but to do some work around the house. I need to get...

 Some time ago, wanting a computer for my train room to run Java Model Railroad Interface (JMRI), I purchased a used HP Mini 210 computer, c...

 Monday is Memorial Day. Memorial Day is not the day you thank me for my service.   Memorial Day is the day you thank them for theirs.

  One down, one to go.

 So as it turns out, the only thing Donald Trump has ever really been guilty of is Attempting to Govern While Republican. Wake me up when so...

First and foremost, thank you . I appreciate the fact that you can be wrong. I appreciate that fact because I, myself, have occasionally bee...

 is still a pretty good day. It was a bit disappointing, however. I took the new-to-me AR upper and the lowers that I had built for it out t...

 I accidentally aced my Harmonics module quiz. Three of the questions were closely related, two were identical and one was based on the answ...

 I went to go somewhere in the Jeep today, and when I turned the key the little blinky dash lights came on but the starter didn't. Appar...

  You look like a fucking idiot.

I've already mentioned my degrees will be finished by Christmas. My Jeep will also be paid off by Christmas. Truthfully I could pay it o...