We are making Riesling this year. There were a bunch of grapes still left on the vines, and it was just too tempting to pick them. The bunches came off easily – we didn’t need clippers, just a good tug. So I don’t forget it, here are the details about our 2010 Riesling: Picked on…

I installed eight 5″ recessed can lights in my living room about five years ago. I haven’t yet had to replace a single one of the bulbs I first installed. The GE Reveal R30 flood lamps have lasted a long time, and provided a really pleasant, pure white light. In my new kitchen can lights, a…

Funny, from www.despair.com:

As much as I hate David Stern and the NBA for moving the Sonics, I still enjoy watching the best players during the playoffs. Since I don’t have cable TV, and am often too busy on weekends to catch the network television games on ABC, the last two years I’ve purchased the playoff games online…

Every year but this one, I seem to catch the TV when the movie The Ten Commandments is on, and I’m always reminded how much I like the story of Passover. It’s such a fantastical tale, so far out of reality in so many ways. I always wonder what the hell really happened at that…