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MMWS: Day 9 – And with that, summer is officially, totally over.

If you’re looking at this live, you’ll see that the temperature in Portland is in the mid-to-low 40s.  On top of that it’s windy and rainy.  Any illusion of late, late summer is brought harshly to reality if you so much as look out a window.  Tonight’s garbage (and yard debris) night, and I walked [...]

Sweet!: A Month Without Sweeteners

How about that for a change of pace?

OK, I admit it.  I’ve been gone a while.  I have received, what I guess you couldn’t really describe as ‘hate mail’ but neither was it ‘fan mail’, messages to the effect that I suck for disappearing.  I apologize.

However, it has been an interesting month… I’ve dragged this [...]

Are You Allergic to Bee Stings?

Probably not.

My neighbor just informed me (after I made the mistake of telling him that I was going to keep honey bees) that he has “really bad anti-falactic shock to bee stings.”  I can only assume that he was asserting that he would go into anaphylactic shock if he were to be stung by one [...]

Why I Hate Earth Hour

I just got an email from my very nice neighbor trying to raise support for Earth Hour.  Again, my blog, I get to be super-duper cynical on it.

I hate this kind of thing.

Earth Hour is supposed to be “a statement of concern about our planet and climate change.”  So, we all turn our lights out [...]

What happened to UPS?

I’ll admit that I was a little late ordering my Christmas presents.  A) I’m not a Christian, and B) The whole “consumer’s Christmas” schtick is a little nauseating.  Still, not to be a total grinch and to help stave off the inevitable collapse of our economy, I ordered some crap.  Call it peer pressure.

It was [...]