The Wife’s paralegal certification class continues, and she’s been asked to draft a complaint. It’s occasionally frustrating — for both her and for me — to help her out. I’ve been writing complaints and other pleadings for so long now… Continue Reading
Warning: Do not follow the link unless you are prepared to be thoroughly repelled and grossed out. But, once again, the Smoking Gun shows the world an unappetizing side of Milwaukee. Yuck.
This morning, the new (to us) car — B.B. — would not start. The Wife was going to take it into work, and called up to me that the car wasn’t turning over. So I came down into the garage… Continue Reading
Once upon a time, a Scottish man named James Dewar, a scientist employed at Oxford University, discovered that if he created a tightly-sealed vacuum between two nested vessels, the temperature of the product in the inner vessel would not change… Continue Reading
When on an airplane flight between Los Angeles and Knoxville a while back, I happened across a really fun magazine, Mental Floss. I’d sort of forgotten about it until I saw a mention of it on my friend’s blog. Now… Continue Reading
Remember that scene from Rocky IV, the one where Sylvester Stallone comes up with the brilliant strategy of not fighting back while Dolph Lungren just whales all over him? His strategy was to get the other boxer tired so that… Continue Reading
So The Wife said she had a headache and thought that taking a bath would help. Being the nice guy that I am, I offered to clean out the baththub so she could do that and feel better. Well, no… Continue Reading
The Wife is reading Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. I realize now that if I did not include this in my list of favorite books on my profile, I really should have. I first read the book many years ago, in… Continue Reading
Yesterday, The Wife found out that her application to the University of Tennessee had been accepted. Assuming that I can find work here, she’ll hopefully decide to go to school full-time there and get about the best college degree possible… Continue Reading
Knoxville is not a big city. Certainly not by the standards that I’m used to. There aren’t nearly as many opportunities here as there were back in California. Losing a job here is a good deal more costly than losing… Continue Reading