This is an experimental post. I was not paid by the vendor to write it. I bought the bag, reviewed it on their website and decided to try the auto-post-to-blog feature after writing the review. The bag really is pretty neat and I’ve finally found something nice and small to carry all my crap around [...]
Posts under ‘Personal Thoughts’
Crickets! ARGHH!
Well, I can tell it’s July. The crickets have invaded the house. When it gets good and hot outside, the little SOB’s look for coolness. They find it at my house by crawling in through little teeny cracks and crevices in the exterior walls of my back badroom (aka my current master bedroom) and settle [...]
Yeah, It’s June…
We got off light this year in May – it was one of the coolest Mays on record here in the Copper State – but triple digit temps go with Arizona like peanut butter goes with jelly (which will both be running out the sides of the bread). So, it begins. If it’s like last [...]
Memorial Day
This isn’t really about Memorial Day. It’s being written on Memorial Day. I guess it kind of makes a connection to one aspect of Memorial Day though. I’ve been thinking about the idea that one person really can make a difference. I’ve been thinking about how the leadership of one person matters – or can if that [...]
Rememberance & Thanks
I, probably like most people, have people in my life who are either currently in military service or who have served. I, probably like most people, have people in my life who have been affected by war … some having given the last full measure. And I, probably like many people, don’t give anywhere near [...]
Big Concrete Tank in the Ground
Roughly 9 hours of work gets the pool from nice and comfy to something that looks like it belongs on the set of a disaster movie… The pictures represent two frames from the timelapse video that I’m assembling of the project. It’s working well so far and as soon as I decide on the best [...]
Again with Bank of Umm….
Last month it was no access. This month access was fine, but somebody hit the big reset button in the sky and made my bill pay go away… It’s things like this that get my neo-digital Luddite blood simmering. This is what happens when systems become so complicated they’re almost impossible to manage. When software [...]
Construction begins
While architectural design work continues on the house, the swimming pool, unfortunately, can wait no longer. The leak in the pipes underground is getting worse by the day and has to be dealt with. So, the plunge – so to speak – is about to be taken. I’m in the process of completing an agreement [...]
Drip … drip … drip …
Well, OK, I guess water leaking underground doesn’t actually go “drip…” I have discovered one of those things in life that you always knew was a possible issue, but perhaps weren’t planning to have to deal with – or at least hoping that it’d be a while. My new-to-me house here in Phoenix has a [...]
The wonders of online banking … not?
I’m not at all sure I’m completely comfortable in a world where access to my bank accounts is dependent on which version of Adobe Flash Player I’m running
