Mincemeat

Walked to Lunds, downtown Minneapolis, and made my annual mincemeat purchase.

Minimizing Packaging

Filled up with dish and hand soap at Linden Hills Coop. Wish I could do the same with wine at the liquor store.

Categorized as Simplify

Couch Potato

Today I’m a couch potato/cold sufferer: blame it on travel. Still, I’m grateful for travel, grateful it’s only a cold.

Replacing a Faucet

Dust everywhere: wore out a grinding wheel slightly enlarging the hole through the counter for a replacement faucet.

Categorized as DIY

Glass Houses and Buried Museums

The Farnsworth House A Glass House in Illinois Completed in 1951, the Farnsworth House, near Plano, Illinois, is widely regarded as one of the major architectural achievements of the twentieth century. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe took his belief that “less is more” almost to the limit by designing a steel-framed, glass-walled box. The box floats… Continue reading Glass Houses and Buried Museums

Fiber to the Basement

Signed up for fiber to the home: half the price of DSL or cable. Local service provider, no teaser rates or bundling.

Categorized as IT

Pure, Dumb Luck

Used a low-tech solution to bring an ancient CPU back to life: a blast of air at the connectors. Pure, dumb luck.

Categorized as IT