I Want to Ride My Bicycle

This is what I told the owner of my bike shop a couple months back: I’m no longer a bicyclist who sometimes drives a car; I’m now a motorist who sometimes rides a bike. Hands-down, the hardest part of moving to this house for me has been the alteration of my modes of transportation. Most […]

More Power

So I’m on electricity again. Still. It’s a constant. (And right as I type this, two men from GCEA have arrived to put a “quality monitor” on our line.) Today’s wonderment comes after all I wanted to do was see how much electricity my new Level 2 charger (really Electric Vehicle Service Equipment) was pulling. […]

Nailed It

Often on Saturdays, I don’t feel like I get much done, no matter how much I move around and knock tasks off my list. But yesterday felt extremely productive, and I’m pretty sure it’s because I made something with my own two hands. In addition to the usual laundry and the purchasing of milk and […]

Acu-punctured

I have been wasting money in our health care system, and I am not happy about it. For the privilege of having health insurance, I get to pay more than I would had I been a “private pay” patient. Our hospital, which is a rather amoeba-like construction vacuuming up all the health care options in […]

Sugar, Sugar

I have an announcement, all you doubting Sam-I-ams: I don’t know about green eggs and ham, but I do like petit fours. I do like them. I haven’t tried them with a fox, although they came in a box. Yes, Lynn took pity on me, or tired of my whining, or something. Not enough pity […]

New Year’s Resolve

So today it’s 2020, and I already heard one dad make his children groan as he was interviewed on the Sixteenth Street Mall in Denver, saying we will all see better in 2020. I also yesterday heard some man in Boulder, who works for a national institute of weights and measures or some such (Boulder […]

Powerless

I’m pretty sure I already covered this topic. Such is the nature of modern existence, it is likely to keep getting repeated. The battery on this laptop may not be long for this world. At best, it is good for an hour, when I would like it to last double, if not triple, that. I […]

Making Something of Myself

Providence smiled at me today, from the pages of the Gunnison Country Times. There was a time, not that long ago, probably when I was completely settled in a house, that I used to read the Times cover to cover every week. Then I would make it through at least the first section of the […]

Lots of Lots

It’s becoming clear, Lynn and I are living in a hotbed of real estate wheeling and dealing. We had no idea until recently, despite being surrounded by lots that are for sale. Since 2017, Riverwalk has become somewhat of a hot spot, after languishing for a full decade. At the very last minute of 2016, […]

There But For Grace

Yesterday’s 40 percent chance of snow flurries turned into a solid Christmas morning snowstorm, which was completely melted off in our new winter normal by midday. It made for a fine Christmas morning, except that I read a story in the Washington Post, and then made the mistake of reading the comments. I doubt it […]