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Michael Livingston

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Journey Begins

Tomorrow. The Jeep is surprisingly full: gear for the kids is not proportionate to their size. There’s a number of last-minute things to handle in the morning — I’m re-caulking the tub, for one thing — but hopefully we’ll get away by mid-morning at the latest. Then it’s just three …

Project XK: Underway

The proper build-up of any Jeep begins, of course, with the simple things. For most of us, the first step is always to transfer portable goodies from the old rig to the new one. Unfortunately for me, many of those goodies happen to be in Colorado still, like my ViAir …

Colorado Bound

We’d been thinking that we wouldn’t head out to Colorado this summer — what with the New One and all — but seeing how much fun the Hobbit had with his grandparents, and knowing how much better life was for the rest of us when there were more hands than …

Editorial Enigma

Not long ago I sent out one of my latest essays to a Prestigious Journal. The article is on Tolkien, which is fun, but it also happens to be one of my favorites. (Though I confess that my favorite article is usually the last one I wrote.) Anyway, today I …

Cable Modem Install

We got high-speed internet via the cable company (Comcast) today.  It was a bit tricky since we weren’t existing cable customers — we continue to get our television over the air — but we decided to ditch DSL for two significant reasons: Cable was cheaper, and DSL went out any …