Some Things Must Be Endured

2023-03-09 OUR FORD EXPLORER (Or a Reasonable Facsimile Thereof) They say, "One man's problem is another man's opportunity." A new (to...

2023-02-21 [UPDATED 2023-03-07] Some things can be endured. After all, if the oven stops working, you still have the toaster oven, the...

2023-02-10 GEICO agreed. That car is totaled. Loan is paid off. Money left over for down payment on a replacement.

2023-02-07 Being without capacity*, I decided to declare The Diet of 2021 at an end. The final Official Weigh-In Day was #94, 2023-02-02,...

2023-02-04 On Sunday evening I was headed for Walmart. Lee Street to S MEsa Drive to River Road to Temple Boulevard to Dimmock Parkway to...

2023-01-25 The dotter has not ceased her efforts to make this house a home. Or possibly an arboretum. I'm never sure which. So,...

2023-01-25 Unpacking is one of the pitfalls of packing. You have to pack in order to move at all... not strictly true. You could, in...

2023-01-22 Right on the heels of the mail crisis comes the interwebs crisis. "Dad," the dotter emotes, "the internet sucks!" I reply, "So...

2023-01-22 The next crisis of Home Moanership has arrived, or not. Okay, it isn’t a crisis so much as an act of forgetfulness on my part....

JANUARY 18, 2023 AT 1:32 PM Happy Third Wednesday of the Month (AKA Social Security Check Day)! I can afford to pay my mortgage, or eat....

2023-01-13 Electricity. The dotter has complained that the lights sometimes flicker. For the past few days, they dim and flicker and then...

2023-01-11 The dotter appears in none of these photos, and yet, they are all of her. This is just the ground floor, and not all of that....

2023-01-07 We have achieved the first of the major problems. Plumbing. The dotter has screeched that she hates this house! Why? The...

2023-01-03 I told the dotter I was going to be proactive, starting my buyer's remorse on the way back from closing. BR is inevitable -...

2022-12-29 It took until after 3 PM, and I got separated from my agent when following her back to her office. I was lost - not very lost,...

2022-12-23 Closing is still scheduled for the 29th. The loan team has provided me with a coordinator who will make arrangements for...

2022-12-19 Closing on the New Dwelling continues to be scheduled for December 29. Packing continues. My "closet" has been broken down to...

2022-12-12 There are many pictures of The Mancave, especially in the early posts of this blog. But The Mancave is in the garage of my EX...

2022-11-15 [updated 2023-03-30] THE PROVERBIAL GLASS from WIKI From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Is the glass half empty or half...

Cecelia Wood Blevins March 7, 1961 April 19, 2022 I hardly knew ye.