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Tankless Water Heaters
(I wrote this for a friend who owns a three-story building and was replacing the water heater. She had never heard of tankless water heaters so I wrote this up for her. Posting it here so I can link to it ( Read more... ) -
The Laugh's On Me
Back around the beginning of December I got a laugh when Tumblr user natalieironside posted the following:
"I feel like quarantine had de-acclimated me to human society and if this ever ends I'm gonna need to go into some kind of wildlife rehabilitation program but for people or I'm gonna start scuttling through the grocery store like a weasel or ( Read more... ) -
Stagflation Strategies: what worked the last time
Stagflation is an economic condition in which prices rice (inflation) but unemployment is high, so wages remain stagnant. Unlike simple inflation, which is caused by an increase in the money supply, stagflation happens when the cost of raw materials increases relative to the cost of labor. The term was originally coined during the oil shocks of the ( Read more... ) -
Racism-free Norse/Germanic Paganism for Prisoners
My friend Raven Kaldera is a devotee of the Norse death goddess Hela, and a frequent writer on Norse pagan religious topics. The list of his published books is quite long, but his latest is not on the "Click here to buy" page because it's not published for sale. He wrote it and self-published it with the intent that it should be made available at ( Read more... ) -
Return to the great outdoors
I had a notion that this year I wanted to do some camping, not the kind of camping I did at TerraSante where I slept in some sort of vehicle and used the campground’s kitchen, but the kind where I pitch a tent, cook over a fire (the solar oven having met a sad demise) and accept the refrigeration limit of a cooler full of ice.
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Third Time's the Charm in Florida
I don’t remember why I decided that, this year, Florida would be where I would hide from winter. I know that I had already made up my mind before Thanksgiving. I made a reservation in November for a place that sounded really cool: a tiny house on a rescue farm in the Jacksonville area, for the months of February and March. (I gave myself all of ( Read more... ) -
COVID 19 and Me
Sorry for the long time between posts.
You would think that quarantine would be a perfect situation for writing: lots of time on my hands, lots of staying in one place, fewer distractions, plus some rather dire possibilities that I can't do anything about, so my best course of action should be to distract myself.
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One of the obscure pleasures of being single during a pandemic is being free to start the morning with a good, garlicky guacamole. Nobody’s getting close enough to smell my breath, so why not?
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Technical Difficulties: An Apology of Sorts
I haven't been posting partly because what is there to say? I'm quarantined, like the rest of the world. Nothing is happening. But, truthfully, I can always think of something to say. The real problem is that this laptop is slowly dying.
The DVD player has been dead for several years, the 8 key in the numeric keypad for about three. Last fall the ( Read more... ) -
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It's been a while since I did any solitary magic. Prayer, yes. Thanks to my goddess, appeals to various deities and spirits for help with this or that, yes. A little energy work on myself, yes. But this morning I got a request, sent out from our high priest to all members of our little pagan church:
“Dear Folks in Asphodel:
A number of spirit- ( Read more... )