What Annoys Jeff this Week?
1. Masks. Yes, I know they make at least a marginal amount of sense, but that reality just doesn’t make wearing one to conduct day to day business any less annoying. That’s mostly because I can’t...
View ArticleHome is a funny place…
I grew up in what many people would describe as “the sticks.” The town where I grew up was so small it didn’t warrant having its own stoplight. You had to drive to the next town down the crick if you...
View ArticleThoughts on the death of a pipeline…
I was raised in coal country. My childhood memories are punctuated with the sound of a CSX locomotive and open coal cars rumbling through the center of town. I don’t have to tax my memory to recall...
View ArticleClosing time…
The good news, I suppose, is that after months of screwing around, I’ll be closing on the new mortgage for the homestead on Friday morning. The new rate, 1.26% less than the original note, will save...
View ArticleWhere no one wants to live…
For a while on Sunday afternoon my Twitter feed was near filled with what I’ll generally call serious lefty climate people. Look, I’m there. Climate change is a real thing. It’s a topic worthy of...
View ArticleI want my money back…
I’m going to a few weeks of physical therapy in an effort to resolve some lower back issues. I don’t love it. Being laid out flat on my back (or front) in an open bay storefront getting worked over by...
View ArticleAn environmentalist…
A few months ago, I kicked around the idea of starting up a weekly limited feature focused on topics that some people might consider controversial, unpopular, or otherwise not appropriate for polite...
View ArticleNothing gold can stay…
The Great Plague era, for me at least, will always be remembered as a golden age. I estimate that I avoided driving about 40,000 miles over the last two and a half years – saving on fuel,...
View ArticleA look back, fondly…
I miss the early days of the Great Plague. Chalk that up to yet another unpopular opinion, but I said what I said.I miss the complete lack of traffic on the roads during those moments when I couldn’t...
View ArticleAn entirely unplanned month of down time…
Some of you may have noticed that I basically took the entire month of July away from posting here. I didn’t exactly give up writing – my proverbial cup of post it notes and electronic memory aids...
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