From the monthly archives:
I have a really beautiful and rather extensive personal collection of rocks and minerals on the mantel over the fireplace, and I very rarely ever look at it, except when I’m dusting, which happens approximately never. I have tiny samples of about 75 minerals, most of the basic rock types (granite, schist, basalt, limestone, etc.) [...]
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What about that lunar eclipse last night, huh? If you were in a part of the world that didn’t see it, or had to go to bed early, the moon literally turned red. Which explains other, seemingly inexplicable events of last night around these parts. In other bizarro-world news, I apparently stumbled into a scary [...]
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I’m sure I’m giving away too many secrets now, but I just found approximately 380 tons of crap under my bed during an unusual spate of semi-annual housecleaning. Although I generally keep the house reasonably tidy (at least the parts strangers see) I always, routinely, whether it needs it or not, do the whole “move [...]
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The big huge drama in life right now is that apparently the passport agency can’t process the idea that a man would change his name upon marrying just like millions of women do every day. They have no problem with the fact that I changed my name last year after I walked down the aisle, [...]
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When I was in college, I earned a solid reputation for losing, misplacing, or simply repelling my possessions. In general, I have a cavalier attitude toward material objects. I usually like to imagine this is a laudable embrace of the Buddhist ideal of being unattached to the material plane, but most of my friends have [...]
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