A step forward

| October 8, 2008

Since the beginning of the Recent Neurological Unpleasantness*, one of the (several) activities that I’ve really missed being able to do is woodworking. I have a garage full of power tools — table saw, lathe, drill press, jointer, and so on — and I simply haven’t been able to use them. Until today. After I […]

Range day: the aftermath

| September 24, 2008

I really understand why the biathlon is an Olympic event. Racing from point A to point B, and then shooting accurately is hard. Of course, I wasn’t really racing downrange with my targets and back to the firing line — plodding is more like it — but it certainly was laborious. I really could have […]