Sapphire and the boys
I take a fair number of random photos around the house, several a week on average I'd guess. A common subject for my pictures are our animals: Irene isn't fond…
First rain…
We have had no rain in the Castlegar region since early in July: almost a month of totally dry weather. This was made worse when a high pressure zone moved…
Getting back into book reading: changing perspective
I stumbled upon a post by Ghastlymirror over on their blog about the challenges they faced acquiring physical books that meet their standards for reading material. This triggered some different…
Smoke in the Valley
The smoke has settled across our valleys here in Castlegar. Exactly where the air pollution originates is a hard question to answer: there are wildfires in nearly every direction within…
This did not age well
Irene and I went to see Bill Cosby back in 2007. We enjoyed him, and I had a number of complimentary things to say about his performance. A link to…
Entropy
Entropy is a scientific term that represents the concept that systems generally degrade without effort from order to chaos over time. A broken plate breaks easily without any real thought,…
Real tragedy of DoorDash Grandma
Trump got a delivery of fast food last week and it has been talked about in the news. The short story: it was a PR stunt to promote Trump's reduction…
Power of Three: my trike gets a custom plate
In 2025 I had a custom Harley Road Glide trike built. I still haven't written about that in my other blog, Geek on a Harley- one day that too will…
Manosphere: making bank off of being a dick
I read an article today in Wired about the creation of the "Inside the Manosphere" documentary on Netflix. I may have to watch the actual documentary now as the article…
Weird Kootenay winter
We are entering the spring season here in the Kootenays, a time when the weather is supposed to be somewhat unpredictable. But this year our whole winter has been kind…