A Dyson shout-out...   Debbie reported a problem with our Dyson Animal vacuum cleaner this morning.  Problems are my job. :)  I've wri...

Paradise ponders, winter wonderland edition...   Well, the snow arrived essentially as predicted yesterday afternoon.  By the time we woke t...

More memories ... from my mom's photo collection... Here's my mom (in the center), with my nieces Tami (left, the daughter of m...

A better map of the 2016 election results...   Friend, former colleague, and not-yet-escaped Californian Simon M. sent this along.  It...

Paradise ponders, broken weather forecast edition...   The current weather forecast calls for a low temperature of 27°F today.  The current ...

Why most customer support organizations would like to strangle their engineering teams, part 77,432...   This morning we received an elect...

Pearl Harbor Day...   75 years ago today the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor .  Over 2,000 Americans were killed, and more than 1,000 wound...

Paradise ponders, snowy future edition...   Check out our ten day forecast at right (click to embiggen).  All that purple area represents ...

Paradise ponders, almost single digits edition...   As I write this, the temperature outside is 10.1°F; it's clear and the sky is full o...

Paradise ponders, electric walnut edition...   Yesterday was a day of getting things done, for me.  That was very satisfying, I'll tell ...

Paradise ponders, swinging from the chandeliers edition...   It seems like I spent most of yesterday on the road – I made two separate trips...

Debbie update...   Short version: she's doing great!  She's walking now without any aids, and her gait visibly improves daily.  Her ...

Paradise ponders, Christmas party edition...   One of the things we cherish about living here is the acceptance of us by the overwhelmingly ...

CarveZilla update...   The first parts for mine arrived today: the rails for the X-axis carriage and the Y-axis carriage (photos below).  ...

Construction progress...   Our projects are still putt-putting along, though at a much-reduced pace through the holidays and nasty weather...

Product updates...   About a week ago I received six small LED lights that are powered by three AAA batteries (each, of course) and conta...

Paradise ponders, whining old man edition...   Man, just about everything went wrong yesterday!  A Fedex package I was expecting never show...

Stop. Trying. To. Make. Me. Like. Him!  Part 21...   Yesterday came the (much anticipated) official news that Trump is going to nominate G...

The Donald...   Via long-suffering reader Simi L.: After passing on, George Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump are going for a job interv...

Why I like online shopping, part 51,939...   A few days ago, noting that we were short of printer paper, I stopped in at the Staples in Loga...