Borepatch

I arrived with Wolfgang at 0200 this morning for the closing, armed with a cashier's check and a Power Of Attorney for the Queen Of Th...

The movers are here. The first picture from here was very like this one. Lots of water under the bridge since then. Wolfgang and I wi...

Not my favorite bit from that piece, but appropriate for the day.   It's been quite some time since I've been to a Handel Sing-a-lon...

Life is chaos, with the Queen Of The World and I both scrambling to get everything packed my Monday when the movers show up.  But there is s...

Putting stuff on your blog that someone else made is no problem if you give credit and link.  Not so much if you don't .

Freedom means that you can do this even if your neighbors don't like it.

Mid-afternoon at National Airport is PACKED. Traffic jam on the roads, traffic jam at the elevators in the parking deck, even at the bars b...

I wonder what the present is?

I got the closest parking place to the terminal that I think I've ever had. Then a massive delay at security theater. And Southwest Bu...

It seems like White Fudge Oreos are in stores for about a nanosecond, starting at some undefined moment after Thanksgiving.  The situation i...

Filed in an amicus curiae in the appeal of Tom Brady's suspension .  Also: “If adverse inferences should be drawn from a party’s fail...

Perhaps the greatest Christmas song ever recorded.  They picked the right title ...

Google often puts up "doodles" to commemorate events of the day.  Go NOW to google.com to see the doodle they made in honor of Be...

The OSS was the WWII precursor to the CIA. One of the things they did wad create a manual for prople in occupied Europe on how to sabatoge...

I sure wish there was Dean Martin's version on Youtube ...

That's John Lee Hooker dressed as Santa.

... comes order. I close on Camp Borepatch tomorrow.  It's been chaos.  I expect that to continue for a couple weeks.  I hope at ...

The Harley wouldn't start, because the batteries in BOTH fobs were dead. Off to Home Depot - they were out of that type of battery. OK...

Just too busy even to have time to spit. Yesterday was a bit of a breaking point - went to bed at 9:00 and slept 14 hours. Now instead of ...

Game Theory is a field of mathematics originally developed to try to mathematically derive optimum solutions for card games in the 18th cent...