I have a food dehydrator, spend a lot of time on backcountry expeditions to remote places where I have to carry everything I bring on my own back (plus pay by the pound to have it flown in), and I grow lots of berries, so I make fruit leather every summer. I find that sugar makes the leather brittle, though, so…

Why is Alaska depicted as being smaller than Puerto Rico? Yeah, there isn’t much room to squeeze it in, but PR is huuuuge.

NYT says the PINs are generated based on the date and time when you contact them to start the freeze. Pretty easy to guess, given when the news broke. And I’m not paying $10 to a company that’s already made millions by collecting data about me without my permission. At this point, I have zero trust in Equifax. I…

Coupla states missing, including my own. (As usual — it’s remarkable how many of these kinds of map exercises just don’t bother with Alaska and Hawaii. Is everyone else really OK with this?) There are no roads connecting much of my state to the rest of the world, so you have to fly to Anchorage for an abortion if you…

1) I’m a boomer, not a Millennial.

Here at 61 N, the rate of change in daylight and temperature is steep around the equinoxes. There was fresh snow down to 3000' last night, the birches are turning yellow, and I will soon start using my 10K lux light box for 30-45 mins each morning, soon after I get up. OTOH, it will be a relief not to have to keep up…

Not sure I have much love to spare for the guy who referred to “my African-American,” but maybe I need to try harder?

“Other.” and “He’s a demented narcissist and you know it.”

Water does not circle the drain in one direction in the northern hemisphere and the opposite direction on the other side of the equator. If the Coriolis Effect were that strong, we would have a hard time walking or driving in a straight line.

One of the first things I did when I got my last car was to open the hood and unplug the power supply to the AC compressor. In most cars, this compressor runs any time you have the controls set to “defrost,” even when dew points are low enough that no AC is needed. On a 2 litre, 4-cyl. car, that’s a lot of drag on…

Pressure cook for a few minutes. Works like an autoclave. Or just toss it and open a new one.

Get a dog. Or two. Big dogs, “sporting” or “working” breeds.

Vulva, vulva, vulva. Not vagina. OK?

As federal agencies, the FAA & NTSB have to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act when they engage in rulemaking. There needs to be a reviewable, appealable record that supports their decisions. AFAIK, evacuation tests to date have utilized flight attendants rather than a cross section of actual passengers to…

In my experience, drunks are worse. Although usually quiet and hung over the next morning.

Delaware North is the NPS concessioner. I.e., it’s a private company that has a contract to operate hotels and lodges in many national parks.

Wow, over a year later, and still only 2G service where I live. Color me underwhelmed.

Yay menopause!!!!

Mmmmm . . . no. Too hard to pour a neat, thin stream out of a mason jar, and the dressing gets into the screw threads, messes up the lid, and runs down the outside, getting your hands oily and leaving a ring wherever you set it down. Instead I re-use an empty red wine vinegar bottle. Same concept re shaking before…

I’m outspoken, love public speaking and I like to act, too (so I’m hardly shy), but I am a definite introvert, never happier than hiking by myself (with my dogs) or figuring something out on my computer. Hell = going on a trip with 10 other people — even somewhere really interesting — and having to share a room and…