Had dinner at our friends’ place last night. The blog was a topic of discussion. This friend, let’s call her ‘Amber’ (Hi, Amber!) was surprised at the content of my blog. It seems she expected it to be “mean” or “sarcastic” rather than “cute”.
She also told me that another friend had been [...]

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I’ve been interviewing people again to replace Cedar, my much-missed, nice, articulate, excellent former employee. If you’ve never hired someone, you may be under the impression, as I was when I was a young buck, that everyone’s pretty much equally qualified (with yours truly slightly less than the others) and that any job posting [...]

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OK, I was a little terse with the pictures. Allow me to elaborate.
There are a lot of kinds of bees. Many of those bee kinds are living in my yard right now. I’ve got blue and red masons (though, they seem to be about done), green metallic bees, those tiny guys (about [...]

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I’ve been noticing a rapid descent of the burgeoning “eco movement” into developing its own priesthood, membership requirements, set of blasphemies, etc.
The other day I was cruising the internets looking for interesting sites, and I ran across one I’d seen before: The Path to Freedom. These well-intentioned “eco-pioneers” are trying to push the limits [...]

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