I’m having to replace all my kitchen things and why is a long story I’d rather forget. But I spent decades collecting and assembling the perfect tools for me and my cooking methods. All are gone. Even the awesome iron cookware rack that hung from the ceiling…gone. These racks are great if you have a……
Category: Personal
Thoughts, events and news about me. Probably the least-used category, hopefully.
Learn to Distinguish Between What You Can Control & What You Cannot
I’ve had a short line of people remark to me throughout my life, especially recently with so much turbulence and disruption coming my way from an ex-family member, ask me why I don’t react how they seem to believe I should, given the circumstances or event(s) that come my way. They expect me to flip……
Preparation
Preparation is responsible for as much as 99% of the success of any given project or endeavor. That’s true. Ask anyone at the top of their game in any field or business, or sport, art, or anything, and the key to getting to the very top is PREPARATION. That’s why college prep schools, which are……
A Michael & Rebecca Update
Rebecca For those that don’t know the story of how I ended up with a cat named Rebecca, here it is: 13 years ago the girl I was dating, who is 12 years younger than I, adopted 2 kittens from her program adviser in Doctoral school to get “brownie points,” according to her. At that……
¡Ay CARAMBA! – What a Week!
I managed to move a few glaciers 1mm each this week. Which is progress, technically. That’s how an ant eats an elephant: one little bite at a time. And I’ve got a number of unexpected and unappreciated Mastodons I’m working on devouring at the moment. While simultaneously pushing 5 large boulders up a mountain myself.……
The State of 3D Printing
This was almost called “My Final Evaluation of 3D Printing” but that sounded too mortal and finite. I’m not going to stop printing. In fact, I intend to become adept at it, as it evolves, which it’s doing rapidly, and I enjoy as an aspect of it. Quick iterations and a large, and growing, community……
Farewell Plateau; Upward & Onward!
As I find many times more than I care to, user error was at play. Stupid humans.
Expand Thou Vocabulary
If you read, write or think, you need to use words. Your inner voice can only define what you know how to tell it, which means educate your brain. It makes sense that the more words we know the meaning of, how to use them, and when they are appropriate or useful to draw focus……
All Work and No Play Makes Michael a Dull Boy
As I’m now middle-aged, I can admit some characteristics about myself that I would deny as a child, which my daughter denies and shares. I see so much of myself in her. Ironically there are traits that I also notice she doesn’t share with her mother which I recognize, and some that she does, which……
Musgrove v. Musgrove
Is anyone in this room a lawyer?