My backyard rocks. I can watch the squirrels and birds frolic all day long and even take pictures. Also, my neighborhood contains the perfect tree, as seen in my previous post. I like how the squirrels’ fur is the exact… Continue Reading
Hey Lloyd! I am, indeed, ready to be heartbroken. Currently, something in my life that rocks is this 2000’s twee playlist. Podcaster Rob Harvilla turned me on to it with the latest episode of ’60 Songs That Explain the ’90s:… Continue Reading
For my Birthday/Christmas, my wonderful wife got me a Ninja Slushi machine. This was quite the coveted viral gadget in 2024 so I was quite pleased and surprised to finally get one. Some of the recipes are actually a fair… Continue Reading
I’m a big fan of having a winter holiday full of lights and shiny things just as the daylight shrinks to a minimum.This Saturday we went to Hillsboro’s drive-thru Lightopia. It was free, so a pretty good value. I’m going… Continue Reading
The Tangled Tree by David Quammen has split my brain open. The first 2/3 was well-written, entertaining science history. It provided some context to the evolution discoveries that were developing while I was in college and med school. Then it… Continue Reading
Again, testing federation
Imagine back in the spring of 2020, when we were all trying to figure out how much to panic, a leading national scientist told a reporter “I think this pandemic will last 3 years and mutate to become the most… Continue Reading
It’s been a little over 2 years since we checked in on my ageless Liberty Lions mug. Let’s take a look. As Indiana Jones said, the Holy Grail would not be golden or studded with jewels. It would be the… Continue Reading
A few days ago I took our ballots to the nearest dropbox. I have always thought it brilliant that the dropbox is parallel to a McDonald’s drive-thru. Everything’s already set up for a high level of in-and-out traffic. I got… Continue Reading
The COVID vaccines rock. Period. I’m sick and tired of news articles with big headlines about how sick vaccinated people are getting with Omicron. That’s not the story. The real story is how sick unvaccinated people are getting with Omicron.… Continue Reading