Assuming that you’re a few bucks ahead in life, now is the time to (1) buy real estate and (2) buy a car. Assuming the bank will give you credit, which of course is the rub. Popping the housing bubble produced bargains, if you can find and afford them. And while credit is really tight, […]

Thanks to Siristru, my web page has had a thorough spring cleaning, and no longer looks so very twentieth-century!It has much the same content, just better organized and far more attractive. Feel free to browse about.

Today is St. Urho’s Day, a day for hard drinking, wearing green and royal purple, and cursing grasshoppers. It is not to be confused with the festival of that Irish guy, what’s-his-name. I have sent you all a St. Urho’s Day card, which you may access here. Illonen St. Urho’s Paivaa!!! (Happy St. Urho’s Day!!!)

So in addition to karate kamp, I have a new reason for muscle soreness today. Kathy and I spent part of the weekend digging a ditch. Or rather, not digging, but digging out. Along one side of our property runs an irrigation ditch. We get precious little use out of it, since due to the […]