I had the fortune of "previewing" rural life before actually committing to it by spending almost half my time for two years up in West Point before moving there. Even so, I discovered a number of realities of living in a rural place for which I had incorrect assumptions.

Nothing like watching a Jimmy struggling in the mud to make a hard left and having to back up.

Claude is quite stunning.

My dog got a foxtail under his eyelid.

Last year, we decided we needed a second printer. Here is an overly dramatized account of what happened.

I am a manager. I hate being a manager. Granted, I manage a whopping two people (two and half, if we're being realistic about job tasks), but I still don't enjoy it. I understand it is a necessary evil in a company of size greater than two, and on the …

The metric system is made for computation. I am not a computer.

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To whom it may concern,

You heard from me tonight during public comments at the board meeting. I am writing to better understand the process by which the list of improvements to West Point Elementary was assembled, and voice my concerns. For …

TL;DR: Modern computing sucks. Let's go back to the 90s, but redesign things more sensibly.

Many articles have been written on the deplorable state of modern computing and the world in general. The fact that somehow 8 GB of RAM in 2026 is considered "insufficient" is mindboggling, considering I …

I mowed the yard today. Well, actually, it was with a weedeater, but the effect is the same. I am writing this note to remember for next year that this is too late by about two weeks. The last rain was about two weeks ago, and that was when the …