BurningbirdDamn it, it’s time to start writing again, before I get too old and feeble and forget how. Sorry, still no comments. Last time I had them, it didn’t end well. Hopefully discussions on Facebook and Twitter will be sufficient. Or the new WT.Social, from Wikipedia’s own Jimmy Wales. I’m ambivalent about it, but if […]
I should write a follow-up to my earlier piece on Al Franken, but time flies, writers plod. In the meantime, Jane Mayer of the New Yorker has an excellent piece on the entire fiasco, albeit she’s more sympathetic to Leeann Tweeden than I am. Senators who regret their hasty and pandering decision: too damn late. […]
For decades I was a freelance software engineer and writer. Nowadays, I’m mainly a writer. As a freelancer, my income tax filing has been reasonably uncomplicated in the past. Enough so that I never used online software, preferring to use the fill-in PDF forms and then sending in the paperwork. Then came the great tax […]
The check valve came through. We had 2.47 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. Before the check valve, we would have been toast. We faced the very real possibility of damaging sewer backup into the main floor of our house. Last night, not a whimper from the pipes. No bubbling toilets. No clang […]
Today will be the first test of the specially engineered duck billed check valve designed specifically for our lateral sewer line. The O’Fallon Sewer folks really came through for us, being able to find a company who was willing to create something specifically for our odd and trying situation. Our lateral sewer opens directly into […]