It's always fun to see what the Internet apparently thinks of me from the snippets it can glean out of my curious wanderings through human knowledge ( Read more... )

I'll give you five reasons.

In order to make a joke about milk crates "(Ooh, you're going to jail, it says so on the crate!") I Googled the warnings ( Read more... )

We had been waiting for it for some time... but it always hits when it comes.

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My father's cancer has metastasized significantly into his lungs. He is losing weight regardless of what he eats, it seems. He has been removed from the IV chemo he was on. The doctor has put him back on an earlier pill at a higher dose... but realistically, it's most likely just waiting now ( Read more... )

"Do you know how fast you were going?"

"I knew exactly where I was at all times."

"That's a no, then."

Mr. DeSutter began fooling around with cover crops about 17 years ago, after Purdue University used one of his fields for research trials. One spring he was repairing a drainage tile in the test field and came across the deep, webbed root system that some Oregon ryegrass had put into the soil.

"I thought to myself, I have been pulling the guts out ( Read more... )

I know you're not terribly interested in my father's health, but this is really good news and I like saying it. They still want to do a second test on it, but tonight a doctor just came in the room and said what should happen is that my dad takes his meds, eats his food, does physical therapy, and walks out and goes back to the health status he ( Read more... )

They're all around the house. The chair I'm sitting in has a piece of PVC cut to replace a broken arm. It's rolling on top of a simple plywood-and-fiberglass platform ( Read more... )