BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Today was cold but clear and I had to get out of the house or implode. Exploring around at the Missouri State Parks site I discovered a park not far from my home that I hadn’t been to before — Castlewood State Park. It was only 20 minutes away, 30 […]
Before the cold rolled in I took my belated trip to Elephant Rocks today. I was able to avoid the gauntlet of confederate flags along the way by looking at a map and discovering that the road I take to one of the parks I visit frequently is the same road that ultimately leads to […]
Another task accomplished this week – putting together my first, and hopefully last, eBay auction. I wonder if eBay puts so much information on each page to deliberately obfuscate the fact that many of the nifty little extras come with a fee? Regardless of reason, the user interface to build an auction is a mess. Not […]
Many thanks for the kind words about my birthday. My roommate took me out for an Italian dinner that would violate every aspect of an Atkins diet. We had bruschetta for an appetizer, home made garlic breadsticks with the dinner, which happened to be chicken, artichoke, sun dried tomato, and shitake mushroom sauteed in garlic […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I turned 49 today. Or, more precisely, I turned 49 this morning at 7:02am. I’ve reached the age where I’ve lived too long to die and leave a beautiful corpse. The the only other option open to me now is to live long enough to become a burden on society. […]