I own two Houston Astros shirts. I wore one last week on the day of the first ALDS game. I wore the second one the next day. Then they were in the laundry until the day before game 5. After washing them, I remembered the game and put one on. Read more…
For a long time now I’ve been struggling to put into words some ideas. They’ve been hovering just out of my grasp. Recently, I watched a video that finally articulated this idea in a concise way that was eluding me. This video is part of a series that I found interesting Read more…
I have a very roller coaster relationship with fixing things around the house. Especially the plumbing. I always like to try to do things myself if I can. And plumbing is one of those things that I can comprehend and, unlike carpentry, doesn’t require lots of skill to get functional.. Read more…
A cousin got married this summer up in New York. We don’t go to many extended family weddings, but this is the only cousin on that side of the family and it was a few hours from Niagara Falls so we decided to make a trip of it. Meet my Read more…
It was Labor Day here in America yesterday. At least technically. America doesn’t know how to Labor Day though. When the idea for a labor day came about in the late 19th century, to commemorate the efforts of the labor movements pushing for better working conditions, including but not limited Read more…
50 years ago today Apollo 11 launched from Cape Canaveral on its way to the moon. It would touch down four days later on July 20th, 1969 setting two humans on the first object beyond Earth. A monumental achievement that caught the collective attention of the world. Growing up in Florida Read more…
Bloody Comcast. Every year they jack up my internet bill by 50% so I have to wrangle with them to get a reasonable price. All because everything is “promotional” prices. That’s because they want to suck you in by seeming reasonable and then hope you won’t want to make an Read more…
Well, not technically. But school’s out and for most of us, especially here in America, that’s the signal for the start of summer. At least it is for me. I imagine for people who finished school 20 years ago, don’t have kids and don’t work in any job that has Read more…
Democrats are going to do it again. According to a new CNN poll Biden has taken a commanding lead as the Democratic frontrunner. This was a spot previously held by Bernie, though you wouldn’t know it from reading headlines. If Biden is the Democratic nominee we’ll get another 4yrs of Read more…
The generally accepted theory about the universe is that it is expanding. Everything expanded out from a central singularity in the “Big Bang” and formed galaxies, stars, etc. Since then, space itself has been expanding. On a local scale, gravity overcomes this expansion and we see no change. On the Read more…