Baby It’s Cold: The Sequel

Sometimes it’s the little things that stick with you. Since we decided to build a house — more correctly, have a house built for us — Lynn and I have been shamelessly inviting ourselves into other people’s homes. We’ve been in at least five houses built by our contractor. Happily, everyone seemed pleased with their […]

A Miserly View of the Movies

I fell asleep last night trying to watch my favorite holiday show, The Year Without a Santa Claus. I’d already missed out on the first half-hour when I discovered it on AMC, a channel I normally won’t watch because it’s two minutes of show tucked inside eight-minute segments of commercials. But for the Snow Miser, […]

Here to Help

Perhaps you think I am doing this blog on my own, without any assistance — except for the images I borrow from the Miracle of the Internet. I haven’t even asked WordPress for assistance, although I’m about to, because a couple of entries are using images from the middle of the post rather than the […]

The Age of Aquarius

Yesterday at work, I remembered I hadn’t signed into a new gizmo my solar installers had set me up with, so I finally did that. This is so cool, I’m sharing it with the world. And you. Back in 2005, a solar system (not the solar system, with Mars and Jupiter and –always still in […]

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

You will be glad to know that at this exact moment, Gunnison is the coldest spot in the state, if not the country. Minus 7 Fahrenheit, according to Weather Underground. I had sort of promised my car that it would have a garage this year — and it is now learning that I am a […]

Rear Window

One of the TV shows I watched as a kid — and I was not alone in this — was The Brady Bunch. There are many facets of this show that might merit discussion: the rampant sexism, the seamless blending of two families into one, poor Robert Reed’s torment as a closeted gay man playing […]

The College Life for Me

Here’s a fun fact you don’t know about me and Heath Noxon: when I was growing up on Tincup Drive, I lived directly across the street from his paternal grandparents, Bill and Coco Noxon. Then, when I bought this house on Irwin Street, I moved in next to his maternal grandparents, Paul and Lucy Trujillo. […]

At Last: The Senior Care Center

My friend Wenona led a very interesting life. It started in Crested Butte, where her father was a foreman for the Colorado Fuel & Iron coal mine. At Western State College she was a chemistry (I think — some science) major who would break into the buildings at night to study. While on a date […]

About This Weather

This is how blogging works, or doesn’t, around here: currently I am lying on my bed, with Marrakesh under my left hand and Na Ki’o, who is absolutely formless, draped across my chest. So far, Ozzyx hasn’t shown up to “help,” but I’m sure it’s just a matter of time. In about six minutes CBS […]

Sunset in Bikini Bottom

Yesterday America lost one of its visionaries: Stephen Hillenburg, creator of SpongeBob, lost his struggle with ALS at age 57. I don’t actually know a whole lot about Mr. Hillenburg. I believe he trained as a marine biologist, and I think he has said he was seeking a way to make marine life more accessible […]