Feeling much better today...   I'm not real happy about how long it's taking me to get over this bug, but still ... getting to the e...

SpaceX...   Just watched the latest SpaceX launch, this time with 10 IridiumNext satellites on board, launching from Vandenburg AFB in Calif...

Ilex vomitoria ...   Many years ago, when I was a young lad, my father used to regale us kids with tales of American Indians drinking tea ...

Still haven't quite shaken this bug...   My fever is gone this morning (yay!), but some of the other symptoms are still with me.  The mo...

A bit better this morning...   The magic infrared thermometer says my temperature is 99.8°F, and my brain feels like it's at least firin...

When you're sick ... you want Debbie to make your meals.  Trust me on this!  At right is the soup she whipped up for me yesterday: a ...

A problem we have...   Debbie and I have different tastes in movies, mostly overlapping.  In music our tastes are nearly two disjoint sets. ...

Felt like hell yesterday ... and about the same this morning.  Whatever damned virus has got a hold on me is really annoying.  Because of t...

Some random things...   I felt lousy most of yesterday, and I woke up feeling about the same this morning – some kind of virus that's gi...

Feeling yucky again...   Dang it!

A nice afternoon drive...   We went up to Hardware Ranch again, and saw a lot more wildlife than we've been seeing recently.  Hundreds o...

More morning bananas...   Here's another attempt to capture the morning banana ritual.  It's surprisingly hard to capture this wid...

The last photo...   I'm still working my way through my mom's belongings.  This afternoon I came across the little point-and-shoot...

Do I still use ... DEVONthink and my Fujitsu ScanSnap IX500 for scanning receipts and other documents?  So asks Ron L., by email.  The a...

A feverish Saturday...   Yesterday I was operating on intellectual fumes for most of the day, the victim of a fever that reached 102.7°F at ...

Do we still like our iPhone Model Xs?   A question I received this morning from reader (and all around crazy person) Dick M.  Answer: why, y...

A few mornings out of the year ... several things line up just right such that the morning sun angles into one of my office windows and str...

A reader asks...   Mary L. wrote to ask me if I use an ad blocker for my web browser, and if so, which one?  The answer is “ Hell , yes!” I ...

A slightly weird snowfall...   I spotted this pattern on our front door walkway when I was about to carry some groceries in.  Nearly all t...

That pesky white stuff again...   By yesterday afternoon our spell of warm, sunny weather had cleared nearly all the snow from the Cache Val...