We don’t have fancy tableware in this house. I have a set of gold-trimmed china which came from my mom. Which means 1) it’s from the 1990s or earlier because she died in 2002; and 2) it’s so cheap I’m not convinced there’s any porcelain in it, the name on the box notwithstanding. I’m not…
Why-Fied
I mostly love living in the boondocks. Despite a population hovering around 10K people, we have one stoplight in town. The main drag includes a few small businesses: a national pizza chain, a tee-shirt shop, a dollar store, coffee shop, etc. There’s an itty bitty IGA grocery in the same building as the USPS. It’s…
Before and After
Yeah, yeah, I know. Two posts in two days. No, it isn’t gonna become a habit. It’s still our busy season at work, so taking the breather while I’ve got it. Thankfully we’re about halfway through summer. Another couple of months and things should ease considerably. A facebook friend and former colleague was complaining, saying…
Booking It
This week has been… yeah. Our trip to Mt Lemmon was curtailed by a body which said, “Oh HELL no.” We compromised and did a run to Picacho Park, less than a 20-mile drive. Still had to go to Tucson to drop off one of the cameras for servicing, but didn’t do the long haul…
May the Tech Be With You
Tech problems are a pain in the ass. Let’s skip past every hoop I leapt through. Suffice to say a few band-aid fixes in, the crashes have subsided. Hopefully. Most of a growing mountain of work involves Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Publisher, or a combination of the two. Before the bandaids, all it took was to…



