Monthly Archives: January 2008

…when they talked about the Kelvin temperature scale, when all molecular movement ceases, etc. etc.? Well, welcome to Wisconsin.

Well, they found my bags…and I survived skankiness through the grace of friends. Noah at Mountain Khakis gave me a pair of Original Mountain Pants. Bill at Icebreaker gave me some underwear and a shirt. Carol at Smartwool gave me … Continue reading →

Airline travel is weird. You buy a ticket, you trust in the Airline Gods (false gods, of course) to do something really simple–get your bag from A to B to C. If the airline randomly flew you to a different … Continue reading →

at the Madison airport on my way to SLC. There is really bad Muzak. Here is a partial listing. Prepare the air sickness bag. · Ballad of John and Yoko. No, really.· More. Sometimes more is less.· Two Ships That … Continue reading →

Last September Stephanie and I went to Seattle (actually Leavenworth on the east side of the Cascades) to a wedding for Kelly and Mark. They asked me (before hearing me, natch) to play my octave mando in their wedding. It … Continue reading →

So I tried to get on the Horny Toad site (to be honest, I wanted to pro-deal a shirt), and our anti-porn service said that the site was potentially pornographic. I can only assume it is because of the name … Continue reading →

It is finished…the first of four frames. It was an experiment, and I think it succeeded fabulously. Now to trim, melt knots, and varnish…but first I have three other shoes to make.

Fans of “The Office,” both American and British versions, will recognize the ol’ stapler in the jelly prank that Tim/Jim play on Garreth/Dwight. The SITJ prank was replicated, because Ian wanted to do it, and Jeff was a good victim. … Continue reading →

We went skiing and it was cool. Because we didn’t have the tripod we couldn’t take a picture of us together, so we settled for the next best thing. Although you can’t tell from the picture, we were smiling. It … Continue reading →

I get this way every so often. I get going on a new project and I become single-minded in its completion. I love building snowshoes, but this is a new thing — building with no pattern, just the basics ingrained … Continue reading →