When we last left our Super-Sexy Adventure SexyMan, he was gibbering at cops about a holeI kind of dropped the ball on this one, in a big way. My normal tools had been broken in the first attempt and/or simply proved to not be up to the task at hand, but I own a big, honking wrecking bar. It's like a super-crowbar and I was pretty sure it would ( Read more... )

I haven't been getting out as much as I would like, lately, as one family/social obligation just keeps stacking up on another. My weekends have been/are largely a joke ( Read more... )

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Earlier this winter, I got the idea to dig a snowfort out of a small mountain of snow collected from our parking area. Much like the dwarves in Moria, however, I dug too deep. Luckily, rather than releasing a Balrog, all that happened there was the thing collapsed in on itself ( Read more... )

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Dear Thirty-seven year-old body,
Thank you so goddamn much for remembering, at the critical moment, how to do all the crazy bluff-side scrabbling/running/jumping that kept us alive (in every sense of the word) through our teenage years. There are plenty of other things I wish we could still do, but hey, if it's a question of one thing that was cool ( Read more... )

Old pic, new pic.

Old hat, new hat.

Old spine, new spine.

Old lens, new lens.

(Old online journal, new online journal)

Old:

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The Short Version: conandammit and I took an unauthorized tour of the abandoned Hamms Brewery.

The Last Time I posted about Hamms, I posted a picture from one of their labs and in response, MPuzzle posted an old-timey picture he found in the MN Historical Society of the same lab.


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See? This really is all I ever talk about anymore ( Read more... )

Yeah, yeah, I know. But I want to be able to chart the recovery process should L3/L4 follow the path of it's brothers L4/L5 and L5/S1 ( Read more... )