We built a porch. Well, Len did. I mostly watched and occasionally held a board straight while he drilled a screw in. But now we have a front porch, and I swear I am spending more time outside now, during…
Our water company is a predatory monster determined to loot and pillage whatever meager wealth the mostly poor residents of my particular area of outside-the-city-limits central Texas have managed to acquire. The first full month’s water bill we received when…
Hi there. It’s been a while. I’d like to say it’s because I’ve been “busy” or “stressed” or some other common complaint but the reality is that I am an undisciplined asshole and missing a single day immediately turned into…
MyFitnessPal is a great tool for anyone seeking to lose weight or improve their overall health. The site (and mobile app) offers an enormous nutrition database that makes it easier to count calories, an exercise tracker, a very busy community…
Laundry detergent is expensive, yo. Even in my little household of two, I end up running two or three loads of laundry each week — Len is a diesel mechanic, a pretty dirty job — and that stuff adds up.…
So back in October, we bought a house. More accurately, we bought a 1.5-acre plot of land that is largely unusable in its present condition and has a perfectly usable 7-year-old single-wide installed on it. I owed a house back…