Month: April 2025
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Hiding in the Basement
We leave the basement door open at night so the cats can get in and out. Our youngest son doesn’t like it when the cats are in the basement and doesn’t like the basement door open. There is a crawl space just inside the door where the cats sometimes retreat. Our son woke up and…
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Wealth Inequality
Political Rant (you have been warned): Last week the stock market lost something like a trillion dollars in value. Many rich people who are usually preaching to me about the gap between the rich and the poor were clutching their pearls because the gap narrowed and it happened to be their wealth that was more…
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Turning the Car Around
I sometimes joke that Gen X should turn everyone’s internet off for a week and make the world survive like we are in the 80s again. I remember being in the backseat of my parents car and going somewhere we really wanted to go. If we acted up my parents would threaten to turn the…
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Spring Cleaning 25
I went through some boxes that were on my dresser. There was a lot of garbage in them. There were a few things that needed to be kept where I have access to them. And then there were a few things that needed to go into the basement. While I was putting them away down…
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Mice and Ants
We occasionally get a mouse in the house. They don’t last long though. Magic will kill them and apparently so will Ether. Stephanie described how the other day Ether was “playing” with a mouse. It was alive and he was tossing it into the air and catching it. I’m not particularly worried about mice though…
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Winning
I have a long time acquaintance. She has kids with one of my buddies from high school. He is in a bad way right now so she and I sometimes chat on Meta Messenger. We were talking about my doubts that there is a loving God and my belief that people are generally bad unless…
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Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
I’m 55 years old and I’m still not good at making grilled cheese sandwiches. I grilled three today, but the heat was too high. They burned before the cheese melted. Stephanie assured me that it was just because I am out of practice. I still feel a little disappointed in myself. I ate them anyway.
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The World is not Ending
This is not a sexy post. Repent of your sins for the world is ending. That’s sexy. That sells. We have five years before the climate kills us all. Sexy. Donald Trump is the end of democracy. Sexy and it sells. But like the threat of mass starvation, and acid rain, and (my favorite) the…
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How’s it going?
I’m having a good day. I got both boys off with their service providers. I got a little “quiet time” while the house was empty except for Stephanie sleeping. The cats have been decent to each other though Magic has hissed at Cosmos and Ether. And then my friend Danny brought beer. So I’m a…
Latter Day Sinner 