Root cause analysis is important. Years ago, I owned a Chevy S-10 pickup truck. It had a rotted tailgate; it shifted like I was trying to push a toothpick through modeling clay; and it would occasionally send perfume bursts of gasoline fumes into the cab when the fuel injectors malfunctioned. But I thought it was […]
Monthly Archives: December 2020
Weather News Happens or Not
An article from earlier this week in the Des Moines Register had this headline: Blizzard Conditions Hit Norwest Iowa. Like my eyes to Cubs, Packers, or Blazers apparel and paraphernalia on my fellow man or woman, I snapped to attention at the almost-concatenation of the end of the second word and the beginning of the […]
Apples Around the Dollar Tree
I stand in line at the Des Moines, IA Dollar Tree on SE 14th, six feet back from the shopper ahead of me. We are spaced properly, but he is behind his blue painter
Approaching Asylum
We were listening to Christmas music through our Amazon Echo Dot. The selection was on It
We’re Starting to Paint Tomorrow and Moving Our Stiff in on Saturday
We bought a house in Carlisle, IA. It