Progress report...   Yesterday we picked up our rental truck – a monster with a 26' long cargo area.  Driving it back from Kearney Mesa ...

Tamme-Lauri oak in Estonia...   I've visited this majestic oak several times, between 1995 and 2002. The paper road map of Estonia th...

Mo'i update...   Yesterday Mo'i got chest X-rays and a cardiac ultrasound, and neither of those diagnostics detected anything at all...

Progress report...   Well, we didn't get much done on the move yesterday.  Night before last, Mo'i (our 16 year old male Field Spani...

Slow programming movement...   I didn't even know this was a thing!  Reading about it , I see that it's very close to my own notion ...

Progress report...   Yesterday, we finished cleaning out the stuff we'd stored at our friend's barn.  We celebrated that accomplishm...

Terminally cute...

Music and science...   No photoshopping or special effects here – this is all real...

Just ran across this commencement address...   It's by Tim Minchin, an Australian musician and comedian whom I'd never heard of be...

Progress report...   Well, at least it wasn't hot yesterday :)  A sort of standing joke between Debbie and I is that we always move in ...

Progress report...   We had a nice, relaxed day yesterday, accomplishing exactly nothing.  We watched a movie at home, then drove up to Cuya...

Thanksgiving dinner ... was a wonderful thing!  Jim and Michelle had us, Michelle's sister and her husband, and a family friend join th...

One of the many things I am thankful for this year ... is Megan McArdle.  Her posts entertain and inform me on an almost daily basis.  Here...

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!   Woke up with my wife and my dogs (and one of our cats :) this morning.  It's already a great Thanksgivin...

I'm safely back in Jamul...   My wife remembered me, as did the dogs.  The cats?  Not so much :) I'm a little tired for some reaso...

All the whipped creamz are mine!

I have no desire to travel to the South Pole ... on a tractor or otherwise.  My mom will no doubt be happy to hear that.  But this Dutch ...

Blogging alert!   Blogging will be light-to-nonexistent for the next few days.  I'm about to climb into my truck for the drive from Para...

Scale model of the U.S. government...   Watch the whole thing; there are lots of interesting details.  Love the audio effects!

The wisdom of doctors...   Via my lovely bride: So I asked my Doctor, "Doctor, what are we going to do about this dangerous virus fro...