In San Antonio sweet tea is what you get unless you order unsweetened tea. And about half the time you still get sweet tea if you order it unsweetened. I used to eat lunch with a co-worker who ordered it sweet and proceeded to drop 3 bags of sugar in it. She stirred until she was satisfied that no more sugar would…

It seems to be backwards day here.  What I am anxiously awaiting is your take on twisted bacon.  Let’s see how this post turns out. 

I am anxiously looking forward to your take on twisted bacon. 

Spit in the ocean.

Whatever you get (and get them in metric, and imperial, and for your drill, too), but whatever, don’t get the Swiss Army folding multitool for Allen wrenches. Those are a pain in the butt to use because every one of the tools is off the center of rotation of the socket. That means the tool keeps coming out of the…

Before we answer ‘how’, we must answer, ‘why’? 

wow, that was mean, condescending, a self serving all at the same time.

I used to work in temp jobs which required I move from hotel to hotel around Texas.  I used 2-inch PVC pipe and a few fittings to run cords from the wall to the computer and printer. 

In my part of Texas the grill never goes dormant. But I have to say, since Christmas and the gift of the precision water heater/circulator, a.k.a. sous vide machine, the grill mostly keeps the meat off the ground while I flame char it with a weed burning torch.  Last night it was a rib-eye steak.  Anyway, if you want…

who is an appropriate lawn mowing expert that would satisfy your requirements of knowledgeable lawn mowing?

OMG I do sound a little like that. The difference I see is that the police are an institution and not a single person. You can take the old men away from the abused wives, but you can’t take the police departments away from the victims.

The LT and his military brethren need the notes because this crap continues to happen. Sure the police were the problem, and they need to fix their training, but for the time being, the police will continue to be a problem, so victims need to figure out a way to minimize the damage. Clearly those police were not…

We shouldn’t have to, but clearly we do have to.

Here we have an ethicist writing about a home improvement guy about a topic that is on the outer margins of his radar. When you apply credibility percentages and multiply them out, this article might be 20% correct. The part about the fuel stabilizer as a reason not to mow wet grass is simply ridiculous. Hard to mow?…

#1 Which is apparently a felony in VA (ref: 1:39 in the video)

Good observation. Since we were in the midst of cleaning the entire house from fire damage, all the specialty chemicals used for cleaning had been tried. There was something about the texture of these tiles which seemed to collect grime and the soot. They (the cleaners hired by the insurance company) were going to…

Hopefully someone will list the 24 movies in the comments so we don’t have to suffer the slideshow. 

You should also remember that, like sandpaper, magic erasers don’t work without a little elbow grease.

Thank you for coming! I’ll be here all week...for the next 1,000 weeks. Try the blintzes, and don’t forget to tip your waitress.