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Category Archives: Libertarian Outpost
Dueling Platitudes Meet Depression Era Wisdom
The repair was perfect. I’d just patched a gaping hole in drywall and sanded it to perfection. Good for me! I began painting the bare spot and then the rest of the walls in the room. Painting gives you time … Continue reading
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Paging Al Gore…
Yesterday it happened. I knew it was coming. That didn’t make it any easier. Bitter cold wind suddenly flared up; flattening everything that could bend and bending a few things that couldn’t flatten. The temperature dropped 40 degrees and the … Continue reading
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Living A Horror Movie Scene
You can count on horror movies to follow the established pattern. The most clichéd is the “gotchya scene”. After a tremendous CGI enhanced fight the good guy seemingly has defeated a bad guy/werewolf/vampire/alien/politician. Half the cast is dead, broken glass … Continue reading
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Bubonic Plague
Curmudgeon compound has been brought low by germ warfare. More importantly; I have been brought low. Who can know the source of a simple bug? (I’m looking at you public schools!) I went from a sweet dad who was caring … Continue reading
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The Furnace Chronicles Part VII: Eating Your Vegetables Is Good For You
My time for amassing firewood ran out long before my enthusiasm for cutting it. Autumn became a flurry of activities and cutting firewood gave way to more urgent winterization tasks. Then it snowed. Summer was over. The first snowfall is … Continue reading
The Furnace Chronicles Part VI: Ant Kicks Grasshopper’s Ass
In the summer you don’t need a furnace. So you’ve got time. What do you do with that time? First you fish, then you mow the lawn, then you prepare for winter. It is as it has been since the … Continue reading
The Furnace Chronicles Part V: To Have My Cake And Flush It Too
Even at my subarctic hovel, summer must come. By then I’d saved some scratch to install a furnace. At my leisure. No hurry at all. Cash. How cool is that? Then the septic system went all third world on me. … Continue reading
The Furnace Chronicles Part IV: Economics Thoreau Style
By now I was a man on a mission. I wanted to exploit my dead furnace “event” to: Save some bucks by NOT financing a new furnace. Live a year of flipping the bird at oil companies. I was adamant … Continue reading
The Furnace Chronicles Part III: I Decide To Experiment
Any fool with a credit card would have dialed the furnace company the day mine conked out. Our society is mostly fools with credit cards. They’d be immediately raked over the coals for emergency, overtime, weekend installation of a second … Continue reading
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The Furnace Chronicles Part II: Preparedness Is Unrewarded
The furnace died and it’s very cold in the winter. Fortunately we’d prepared for such events. We have a wood stove. The wood stove heats the house just fine so long as you keep the fire going. If I were … Continue reading
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