I’ve moved another 9 GB of photos and 15 GB of music to my colony of external hard drives. Will I have fantastic performance on the laptop? I can only assume so.

Went to air up the tires at the gas station since the back tire is low which makes the 4Runner handle like a cow. Discovered after several fruitless minutes that the female connector on the air compressor had been mangled- run over?- and was not sending any air into the tire. No other gas stations [...]

I hate this. Summer passes into sudden brutal winter with no transition of fall. You wake up one morning and realize that it’s freezing outside and all the gloves in the house have transformed over the summer into jungle prints, adorable mittens with hot pink piping, etc. With a sinking sensation you realize all the [...]

A lake of fire? I think it might be more like a lake of dog diarrhea in the livingroom. Then while you are cleaning that up, the other dog pees on the kitchen floor. I think it’d be a good kind of relentless torture for the damned.

Today I went to the Blacksburg library to do some work away from the screaming neighbors, etc. When did public libraries become noisy hellholes of running kids? Have they always been this way? One of my tasks was outlining the chapter on Art Nouveau in my History of Graphic Design book and I came across [...]