I needed to have 2 sheets of OSB and some standards from Rubenesque waiting for the Wife’s brother when he arrived at 8, er 9, this morning. The rest of the day was spent taking down standards and slatwall from Rubenesque and shuttling them to the new location. If you don’t know what sta...

I hit the new digs hard this morning with my shop vac and the drywall filter, then with a stand up. I was about halfway done when the Hoover carpet shampooer started acting up. So, while the Wife painted, I drove practically across the street to the Lowes on Battleground and rented one. The thing I ...

Despite the partying in the street, the Simkins PAC maintains its control of Greensboro politics. Perkins knows it. Methany and Anderson Groat are about to find out. Scooter Sanders and Tom Fox are getting their pay restored and have returned to duty. Mitch Johnson is demoted, but still employed. Re...

  Mardi Gras masks! You'll have to pardon this post, because I am ending up the week with a cold and three sick little boys. (The littlest boy was sick over the course of the week, but was he sick with what we've all come down with today or with the last mild cold that passed thr...

The Wife and I were painting at Twin Brooks today when the doorbell rang. I opened the door and in walks a white woman of foreign provenance who mentioned the fridge being too small. The Wife, who has the flu and water literally pouring out of her face, said she could bring her own refrigerator. Ala...

Week 6: Valentines, Valentines, Valentines:   Katydid, wearing her rose-colored glasses (they actually are rose-tinted, to help with her headaches) looks very Valentine-ish, doesn't she?   Most of the Valentines this year involved large amounts of glitter.  I think this is Pip&...

Today as I drove Shelby home from school we talked about her "sight words". These are words that her teacher expects her to know. In other words, she should be able to see them on a flash card and recite them without having to s-o-u-n-d them out.Examples: a, I, the, and, was, you, him, She was going...

Our dryer went out last week, or so we thought. So, I pulled the timer and ordered one. It came yesterday, but no luck. We were looking at new ones and perusing repair instructions on the internet. This morning, the Wife called a repairman. He asked if the start button was working. She replied it di...

Rabbi Gil Student writes: R. Menachem Schrader, the Founding Director of the OU’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC) program, said the following at a conference for principals and guidance advisors last week about yeshiva high school graduates who go to secular colleges (link): The st...

Weeks 3, 4, and 5 are being lumped together as cabin fever weeks.  I think we did actually do something, and I have a few pictures to prove it, but mainly winter insanity took over. This week (week 5) ended up a little better than I expected, after a disastrous Monday on which I in...