Excuse me while I snort coffee through my nose. I’ve been reading a book about the Chicago World’s Fair and enjoying it immensely. I finally got around to dinking around online, only to discover that the official World’s Fair website is Flash-only...

Winter, apparently, has landed with a thud. The other day we realized that we simply are not getting out of here anytime soon. And it’s ok. Kerry loaned us a vast tarp and we hooked it over the top of Harvey. There. It’s a few degrees warmer, and we...

This morning I woke up semi gung-ho and did a bunch of articles for pay. After that I took a deep breath and started another round of insurance-company chasing. Our phone line was acting up yesterday with too much traffic on the connection, so I had a...

All the glute-nursing worked yesterday and while I’m not quite right I noted that a motorcycle ride would be very nice. And so we looped round into town and took a road we never had before, Trinity Dam Boulevard, which as the name suggests skirts the...

This is my old battery. Because I’m quite experienced at getting the battery out, I even remembered to put in a stack of wood blocks so that it wouldn’t drop right out onto the ground and explode. Suzuki was not thinking when they designed my...