A Story of Patriotism The misses and I sat down to dinner last night (I made vegan BBQ tofu!). While devouring the tofu love, I noticed that Gabby The Cat was sitting in the window with a very quizzical look on her face. All throughout the meal she looked slightly odd. Towards the end of …
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Buy It Broken Survived a wallop of a heat wave that recently blazed a path through town, scorching lawns and boiling sidewalks for three straight days. With temperatures hovering at 100 degrees, the town was in a panic. The neighbors to the South and to the West both broke out massive lawn pools and filled …
Hablad Más Lentamente, Por Favor. I think my Spanish is actually coming back to me. I’ve logged a tremendous number of hours at Univision over the last couple of weeks. Their announcers for the World Cup outshine the ESPN guys by a thousand watts. Even though I don’t understand 80% of what’s being said, the …
Sherlock Skelton We’ve become a Netflix family again. Over the last couple of months I’d visited the video store on three separate occasions only to walkout 15 minutes later completely empty-handed. The video store: a) has 200 copies of Daddy Day Care and not much else, b) stocks totally useless movies, c) carries crap titles, …
Workbench 1.0 I got busy over the weekend and built myself a proper workbench. The Janktown 9000 model workbench that was built by the previous owner of the home just wasn’t up to the task of supporting my home building projects. If you look closely at the ‘BEFORE’ photo you will see that crap workbench …
Mole Archaeologist The latest critter(s) to breach the fortified perimeter of The Skelton Ranch is the dirty little mole. This burrowing night-raider is tearing up my lawn with its fossorial forefeet, leaving long trails of winding mini speed bumps and sporadic craters all throughout the backyard. One morning, on a day after I had recently …
Back With Even More Cuteness Apologies for the lack of updates. The work load has been punishing me as of late and I have allowed my blogging to slide. For your patience I reward you with a shipyard of cute. First up is a photo I unearthed from my fathers archives. The organ was my …