Neanderpundit

Maybe we’ll get all the way to Zero tonight- YAY!
Damned global warming. DAMN YOU ALGORE!

Firewood is a welcome thing. Two years ago or maybe more we got a buttload of firewood from Mr B, and last year, IIRC, he and I went to remove a downed cherry some of which I am still burning. I have some more to split, but my optometrist’s church is selling split seasoned firewood to raise money for a group of indigents that live down around Kankakee. The delivered price was right, and the charity was good, so I had him drop a half cord off Saturday. The Ogwife and I stacked it in the woodshed and we’re damned glad to have it, as well as the last of the stuff we got from Mr B.. Anything to keep Nipsco at bay.

In related news the electric bills keep down so long as I use the LED lights, and the sooner I can switch the whole house to them the happier I will be. I don’t give a shit about the environment or sustainability, that’s all leftist bullshit, I’m just a cheap bastard-and regular light bulbs die here often enough that the LED’s are a good bargain costwise, and the savings in electrical helps a great deal. Pity I can’t get an LED blower for the furnace.

and I finally went out and bought some commercial quality lights. Hopefully I won’t have to do this again. And the climbing around and cleaning the gutters while hanging the crap didn’t make it any easier but they’re up now, and look nice. Nothing special, just a line of multicolored lights on the eavestrough.

Next year I think I want to do this.

I wore either school uniforms or suits. At home it was jeans or dickies. And a suitjacket or a barn coat, in deep winter I wore a parka.

Hoodies were for- well, hoods. That’s what I was told and I wasn’t allowed to own one.

Last year for Christmas the wife and daughter bought me one, custom imprinted, and it has become one of my favorite posessions. But having come so late to ownership of this article of clothing, I have learned something I would never have expected.

The hood, while warm and wonderful, is a pair of blinders. And now I understand how impractical they are- when Obi Wan or Arwen or Merlin pull that cloak up over their head, not only can they barely hear anything not directly in front of them, any fat slow old knucklehead can walk right up behind them and clobber the fuck out of them. What I need is a hood with a rear facing camera. Maybe my parents weren’t that stupid after all. I would get one of those Jayne hats but I’d look even more ludicrous than I do now.