Yesterday I went and got my crown installed on my back tooth. They had to use gold instead of porcelain because of how “short” that tooth is. I guess gold is easier to form into smaller crowns. Of course, I had to get the crown in the first place because that tooth [...]
We had about thirty people over to our house yesterday for our turn hosting the Rocky Mountain Reef Club. It’s kind of hard, I know, to believe that such a thing exists up here in these mountains. I mean, how many people would you expect would be in a thirty-mile radius that are [...]
One of my favorite kitchen gadgets is one I purchased long ago through an incredible slickdeal, a KitchenAid mixer. These mixers are superior to the old ones because they carefully mate the mixing elements and the bowls so that stuff actually gets mixed without requiring so much constant intervention. I know, radical idea, [...]
I was working on cleaning Bertha this afternoon, blowing the rocks off with a small pump, when I noticed some sand grains stuck in the rocks that wouldn’t blow out. Upon much closer inspection, I found this:
They aren’t rocks! They’re some kind of little plant or animal (or algae). Those are about [...]
A few weeks ago I shipped seven or eight boxes filled with Christmas presents to our parents’ homes in Boston and Columbia. I use UPS.com and print pre-paid labels, which have no store surcharge, and then I drop the finished packages off at the nearest UPS pick-up point to send them on their way. [...]