We need to get Social Security cards for our daughters. I dropped by the SS office in Independence yesterday afternoon. I didn’t know what time they closed, I just assumed it would be similar to other government offices. Turns out the office hours were 9-3:30. So I had to leave work mid-day to get there …
Category: stuff
Oct 30
I’m on vacation
I’m neither bragging nor complaining. Mostly I’m just tired. I’ve been tired for months now, due to a frenetic work schedule for the past several months, and a busy church schedule this summer. So I’m not doing much of anything. Heather and I started vacation tired, and four days later we’re still tired. Yesterday we …
Oct 16
Photo: garage door
This is a garage door near 43rd and Main in downtown Kansas City. Unfortunately this is the first thing Chiefs’ defense sees on their way to work.
Oct 15
Dipstick design
It might not be readily apparent from this photo of my dirty engine, but you are looking at an example of very good design. The small sliver of yellow you see is the dipstick. It was handy enough coloring it yellow for ease of finding it among all the black and gray of the engine …
Oct 11
sneakybowed
As far as I know Kaleb coined this verb. It’s a rather technical term, specialized to a particular activity within a specific series of video games. In the Elder Scrolls series you can shoot opponents / attackers with a bow and arrow while ‘in sneak,’ a state of stealthy concealment that provides extra attack damage …
Oct 10
Finally…
One of the teens in our church posted after we had our first big rain after the drought. I don’t think he appreciated my humor.
Oct 09
Write in candidate
This entire non-window surface of this eastbound and down van is covered in spray paint. The occupants (or, vandals) are endorsing Leonard Steinman for governor of Missouri. The side of the van says, ‘Missouri news media are prositutes.’ It could be that they don’t know how to spell, or I suppose they could just be …
Oct 07
Quotable: W.E.B DuBois
“I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.”
Oct 06
“Are you the Good Jimmy or the Bad Jimmy?”
The customer asked me this seriously, without the slightest bit of irony. “My name’s Dan,” I replied. The whole thing was rather curious. Jimmy was our lead tech at the time, and he is legitimately one of the nicest guys ever. For some reason the customer had gotten it into her head that 1) Jimmy …
Oct 01
Sriracha
The first time I tried Sriracha pepper sauce it was in a peepee jar. Lemme esplain. I have this friend who works in a hospital–but not in the department where they use said jars for said purpose. She and her coworkers use them for beads and other little odds and ends. Anyway, she was totally hooked on …
