Took it a little easier than normal last week, spending quite a lot of my free time celebrating our independence by joining my son in blowing some things up and setting other things ablaze. The 4th definitely brings out the inner child in me! Nevertheless, I did manage to get some work done: Started doing [...]
my quest for enough...
Elsewhere- Amen...Amen...: Generation X is tired. It’s a parent now, and there’s always so damn much to do. Generation X wishes it had better health insurance and a deeper savings account. It wonders where its 30s went. It wonders if it still has time to catch up. […]
- Fire!Exciting evening at the Oelkers farmstead - our very own wildfire. Lynn called me around 3ish to let me know that there was an out of control fire in a field across the road from our little place in the country, and today’s gusty winds blew the embers all over the place. Including the soybean fields surrounding our home! A whole squadron of firefighters were […]
- Anyone else finding a few thousand jumbo popsicle sticks in...Anyone else finding a few thousand jumbo popsicle sticks in their shopping cart? ;) […]
- Truths About Organic FarmingTruths About Organic Farming: Some actual long-term research concerning the viability of organic versus conventional farming - not funded by someone with major financial interests in the answers pointing in a particular direction - yields some interesting results. The real question is, why haven’t I heard more about a study like this? […]
- Particle Accelerator Gets Taken Off Life SupportParticle Accelerator Gets Taken Off Life Support: Way heavier science than I will ever understand has taken place in places like this, with who knows how many advances made in our communal knowledge. Hopefully the anti-science movement I sense in certain factions of today’s politics some day realizes that theoretical science doesn’t always remain in the theo […]
- Amen...