Why a New Lift? About a year ago, I installed a 4″ BDS lift-kit on my Jeep Commander, as previously documented on this site. In that previous post I discussed my reasons for getting a lift, and I also presented my conclusion that the BDS kit was superior to its …
We’ve been back in Charleston for a couple of days now. The trip to DisneyWorld was absolutely marvelous. I hadn’t been there since high school, and boy have things changed. This was me then, in 1992, standing in front of Splash Mountain in the Magic Kingdom with my Dad: And …
I’m feeling a bit like an episode of “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” — my life somehow went crazy in these past couple of weeks. The semester came to an end, of course, which is typically a test of a teacher’s sanity. Yet that wasn’t enough this time. …
Ran my name through an anagram generator brought to my attention by Mary Robinette Kowal. My favorites were “Alchemist Living On” and “Logical Invents Him.” Both kind of oddly appropriate.
The nearing-four-year-old boy was in the bath tonight, playing with his toys. Among them, a big blue shark and a few much smaller floating animal toys. The plastic shark, predictably, went after the other animals in the bath — mainly the sea turtle and the dolphin — growling about how …