Back in March, when the Washington Post was leading the preseason charge to pressure the Redskins to change their name, I wrote a short post suggesting the team shouldn’t change the name, making two main points: (1) the word “redskin” is no longer commonly used to refer to Native American people at all, and (2) […]
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A few weeks ago, I picked up a book at the library with some furniture projects I wanted to build around the house, “Ridiculously Simple Furniture Projects: Great Looking Furniture Anyone Can Build.” Author Spike Carlsen breaks projects down into just one or two pages of instructions with beautiful pictures and minimal material and tool
David Friedman has a very good post on The Debt Limit and Default that makes two essential points for cutting through the hyperbole in the news about the risks of not raising the country’s debt limit. (1) Our government takes in enough revenues to make all interest payments on existing debt and (2) even defaulting
We just got back from vacation late Friday night and I was going to make dinner for the family to give Valerie a break. Simple bean and cheese enchiladas; refried beans, corn tortillas, pepper jack cheese, and enchilada sauce. We had the first three things in the house, but no enchilada sauce. I considered driving
My wallet is one credit card lighter this morning. I cancelled my PNC Bank Visa that I’ve had since it was still National City bank. Their business practice of charging exorbitant fees with zero grace period is not something I want to support with my purchase dollars. The facts are these: Back in January, my
August 3, 2013. A day that will live in infamy in my house. After over 15 years (off and on) of brewing, I had my first bottle bomb. My peach weizenbock had some suspended peach bits in it when I bottled. I was already using a higher than normal amount of priming sugar to get
The three biggest expenses the average family has are food, transportation, and housing. Savings in one of these three categories will have the biggest effect on your budget, and consequently your ability to get rich. A loaf of whole wheat bread costs us about $4 at a grocery store, maybe $3.50 at Costco. With two
This post from Brave New Life talks about how he has the world’s best job. Essentially, he breaks down what he gets paid for breathing. He’s taken the advice of Mr. Money Mustache, and making his army of dollar bills work for him. We all know what we make per hour when we’re working. If
I made a batch of The Brew Hut‘s Bozenweiss Raspberry Wheat a couple of weeks ago. The recipe is as follows: 6 lbs. Wheat LME1 lb. Crystal 10L (Briess)12 oz. Flaked Wheat8 oz. Acidulated Malt1 oz. Tettnanger (60 minutes)1 oz. Tettnanger (30 minutes)Safbrew WB-06ADD RASPBERRY PUREE (3.1 lb. Can) AT “HIGH KRAUSEN” (the second or
It’s been a little more than a month and the square foot gardening beds are really taking off! That’s a sunflower, radishes, peas, tomato, pepper, parsley, beets, spinach, strawberry, and zucchini. We already picked a few radishes and spinach for salads. In the other bed, more of the same, including some peas almost ready to