Borepatch

Actually it has been for a couple of weeks.  I've had a pretty bad case of blogger burnout - there's been a number of blog worthy to...

Sometime in the last two or three weeks the odometer here ticked over 20 Million page views.  Seems kind of weird that I wasn't tracking...

This was the best year ever for traffic here: 4.5M page views.  This brings the all-time total to 19.5M.  There's quite a market for fre...

Chasing Ghosts.  And Ghosts I don't want to catch. Damn Ghosts. 

The Register has a good article on the security conferences going on in Las Vegas right now: Black Hat, B-Sides, and DEFCON .  The article i...

17 years ago I put up my first post here.  Around the same time, ASM826 - my brother from another mother - put up his first post on his blog...

Today is the day with the longest period of daylight (in the Northern Hemisphere; in the Southern it's the longest night). Here in the S...

I broke my foot (and maybe cracked a rib).    Off to the orthopedic doc.

So 2024 closed out with almost 1.6M views, and yesterday the odometer here turned over 15 Million. Happy 2025 to all, and many thanks for st...

It's not super hard, you just need some things: A chainsaw Some shovels Rope Trailer hitch Neighborhood friends  I was part of #5.  Been...

Overall we are pretty pleased with how our preps went.  We have a "hurricane kit" which is 3 storage tubs of stuff plus water jugs...

Back now - the Internet connection returned from where hurricane Milton blew it away to late last night. We had a fair amount of damage.  We...

Lots of media huffing and puffing, but not much rain (especially when compared with Debbie last month) and not too bad for wind.  Power stay...

This blog is sixteen years old today.  Dang, in a couple of years it will be able to vote. Lots of changes in the last sixteen years.  I sta...

So yesterday had the expected and the unexpected.  The procedure itself went smoothly - it was a Mohs surgery , where they shave off layers ...

Skin cancer - hey, it's Florida, right? I expect this is just going to be a pain in the butt (well, ear) since we caught it early and si...

We have family visiting, so I've been busy taking grand kids to the beach. Posting will be light for a couple more days.  Go check out t...

Borepatch 2, Air impact wrench Cletus 1. I soaked it good with PB Blaster including underneath the housing that the bolt went into.  Let it ...

Working on the Jeep, spinning wrenches.  Except the last guy who came near a couple of bolts torqued them down . I even got a cheat bar to g...

OldAFSarge finds a fun site .  It clearly has an AI back end because there's no way I'm this good looking. Oh, and how do we get to ...