Friday Filler: Splashing morning sunshine
RichC | October 22, 2021
Just a very short 10-second video slow-motion snippet as a Friday Filler post and to say “good morning.” /p>
The Bankrupting of America – Stephen Moore for PragerU
RichC | October 20, 2021
Here’s a short video worth 5 minutes of your time to watch and to contemplate before Congress and President Biden makes our spending spree even worse. “You can’t spend what you don’t have indefinitely ..” – Stephen Moore for Prager University. LINK to video
Friday Filler humor: Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force
RichC | October 15, 2021
Who doesn’t enjoy a funny military rivalry video clip. HA!
Music Monday: Redbone – “Come And Get Your Love” (LIVE)
RichC | October 11, 2021
In keeping with a inclusive music from the 1970s for Music Monday, you can’t get much more American melting-pot inclusive than the band Redbone. The Mexican-American / Native American rock band even gets their band name from a Cajun term for “mixed-race” person … and who doesn’t love their stage show and music? Here’s their […]
What happens when you make a Rhinoceros angry?
RichC | October 6, 2021
Music Monday: Tavares – Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel
RichC | October 4, 2021
When it comes to listening to the music, it is appropriate to be a bit more inclusive when it comes to songs that we listened to (and some danced to) in the 1970s. That included R & B, funk, disco and soul music from bell-bottomed dancing vocal groups like The Taveres Brothers or just Tavares. […]
The cooler weather has us enjoying working in the backyard
RichC | October 2, 2021
As summer turned to autumn, Brenda and I found ourselves enjoying a few more evenings and weekends walking around and working in the backyard. Last week it was cleaning up “the mound” (although we have a few) and getting it ready for winter. I dug out some deeper rooted plants that had spread and planted […]
Högertrafikomläggningen in Sweden
RichC | September 26, 2021
What does it take for a country to switch from left-hand to right-hand driving? Sweden did just that in 1967 … with a lot of preparation. It was called Dagen H or “Högertrafikomläggningen.”
Music Monday: Michael W. Smith — Worship Forever
RichC | September 20, 2021
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Music Monday: Carly Simon singing “Anticipation” #video
RichC | September 6, 2021
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Music Monday: The songwriting gift that is Brian Wilson
RichC | August 30, 2021
Who doesn’t know who Brian Wilson is or love his many decades of music … especially with The Beach Boys (even my kids played them on our amplified Echo and dance around a week or so ago)? 😊 I stumbled across his timeline on the BrianWilson.com which highlights each decade with photos and highlights. A […]
What does ZIP in the USPS “zipcode” stand for? #TBT
RichC | August 19, 2021
What Does ZIP in zip code stand for … for Throwback Thursday #TBT? ZIP is an acronym using the first letters from Zoning Improvement Plan. … and who doesn’t grin at 1963 marketing: Zip Code: With the Swingin’ Six. 😊
The “replacing our driveway project” is finally underway $$
RichC | August 18, 2021
It is a month and a half late, but concrete companies and for that matter most construction companies are very busy this summer. The COVID19pandemic has put most projects behind and perhaps we should be thankful to be on their schedule. Tearing out (video from Canary Security Cam) and re-concreting a driveway is one of […]
A birthday celebration and fun family weekend in Cincinnati
RichC | August 17, 2021
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Music Monday: The Guess Who and “No Time” #video
RichC | August 2, 2021
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Friday Filler Video: This dad make surfing with kids look easy
RichC | July 30, 2021
Professional surfer Billy Kemper — and his son Lion — surfing together. Surfer Billy Kemper says he glimpsed at death after a wave broke his pelvis in half (CNN) – It was a tiny error in judgement, but within seconds he realized that the consequences could be potentially life threatening. “That wave sucked me up […]
The legendary Thomas Sowell and his economics, politics and social theory highlighted by Jason Riley for PragerU
RichC | July 27, 2021
As a longtime subscriber to the Wall Street Journal (and for the last decade or so Barron’s), I’ve learned to appreciate certain journalists, economists and opinion piece writers like Jason Riley at the Manhattan Institute. When he told the inspiring story of Thomas Sowell for PragerU, I quickly viewed the video and applauded – well […]
Slow, but not necessarily steady, progress on my home office
RichC | July 17, 2021
Slow progress on my home office as I continue to work in disarray; I am missing my accessory junk … including a small hanging TV. I don’t necessarily “watch” business television, instead listen to the stream via SiriusXM to my Aftershokz Aeropex headset. Occasionally though, do still find it helpful to have a video image […]
A week of summer with Annalyn and Ellerie at our house
RichC | July 11, 2021
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Archive: Leftover personal family 4th of July weekend photos
RichC | July 10, 2021
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Music Monday: Don McLean performing “Crossroads” live
RichC | July 5, 2021
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To have both ears working, my balance and to be young again
RichC | June 30, 2021
I enjoy the ocean but haven’t really had my equilibrium and balance back since my 2-year bout with Meniere’s Disease 20 years ago. That’s a bit depressing since I still have the desire to switch out our surfboard for a longboard (or SUP). That dream aside … my wife will tell you that I wasn’t […]
Music Monday: Supertramp – Breakfast in America LIVE (1979)
RichC | June 28, 2021
Last week a friend of mine include an album cover photo and said “strike this pose.” I laughed to myself wondering just how many people seeing it would know and remember “Breakfast in America“ and the Engilsh rock band Supertramp? Interestingly, even though I clearly remembered the band and the album, I did not realized […]
Birdhouses and raccoons and a great Drew and Katelyn photo
RichC | June 20, 2021
Received nice photo from Katelyn and Drew last week and since I included one of Taylor and Megan last week, this is one that needed to be archived on my blog. Most most personal photos nowadays are of our granddaughters as Brenda and I have long ago moved past the stage of photos our ourselves […]
Music Monday: B.T.O. – Roll On Down The Highway
RichC | June 14, 2021
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Books: Brave By Faith by Alistair Begg
RichC | June 13, 2021
The current pile of books to read is too high for my nighttime side table; I think I need to move a few to my office … or better yet, finish reading them! Since Alistair Begg is a favorite teaching pastor of ours (Parkside Church was our home church when we lived in NE Ohio), […]
Mexican lunches, salsa, discussions, reading and a good friend
RichC | June 6, 2021
For years now … no, it is now decades … my buddy Jeff and I have gone out for lunch ever other week and almost exclusively to a Mexican restaurant … primarily for the chips and salsa (and relaxed conversation). Before that, we lived in different cities (he in Florida and then Alabama … and […]
Prepping for summer and admiring a porch view from a friend
RichC | June 2, 2021
Although I’ve enjoyed summertime on the beach ever since I was a little boy (we live on a beach), there is something relaxing about seeing the photo above that a friend sent me from his families rented beach house in North Carolina … it look very relaxing. The older I get, the more I enjoy […]
Music Monday: Hard to believe Bob Dylan turned 80 last week?
RichC | May 31, 2021
This should have been a post for last week’s Music Monday, but here’s a belated 80th Happy Birthday to the legendary singer-songwriter-poet Bob Dylan. What a unique and talented musician. So now they your 80 years old … Mr. Rolling Stone 🙂 … “how does it feel?” Bob Dylan with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band […]
Back to Perrysburg for Annalyn’s dance recital and babysitting
RichC | May 28, 2021
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A Toledo Mud Hens game and Katelyn’s surprise birthday party
RichC | May 26, 2021
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Hm, where did I park that VeeDub Beetle again? #humor
RichC | May 23, 2021
Archive: Family photos from Katelyn’s birthday weekend
RichC | May 18, 2021
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Music Monday: Mercy Me and their “Say I Won’t” music video
RichC | May 17, 2021
My Desultory Blog‘s Music Monday does not include enough music from the Christian music genre and after hearing the story of Gary Miracle last weekend, I had to include Mercy Me‘s “Say I Won’t.”
Music Monday: The Who – “I Can See For Miles” triggered by an astronaut Alan Shepard memory
RichC | May 10, 2021
The Who was never at the top of my music listening list, but like all who grew up in the 1960-70’s era, we all knew the music. This past Wednesday was the 60th anniversary of Alan Shepard‘s flight into space and as a boy who grew up mesmerized by our NASA space program (still am) […]
Auto racing: Too close of a call for this flagman #video
RichC | April 21, 2021
Thankfully no one was hurt at this Sprint car race, but this is too close of a call for any flag person’s comfort. Yikes!
Music Monday: Not my taste, but definitely Bluegrass talent
RichC | April 19, 2021
This past weekend I saw what looked like an amateur musician in a college dorm or apartment video roll across my Twitter feed and thought, “this young man has talent.” It reminded me of a post from 2014 when Jacob Tolliver sat down at a piano in a Portsmouth, Ohio hardware store. This kind of […]
How do you dice and onion? Let’s check with Lifehacker.
RichC | April 18, 2021
Is there a better way to “dice” and onion? The Lifehacker “Hack or Wack” crew gave the UK tipster’s method a try … and I’ll probably do the same even though they concluded it was “wack.” Still, there might be a couple modifications that could keep the onion flat on the cutting board and still […]
Experimenting with a Magnetohydrodynamic Drive demo
RichC | April 13, 2021
You can take the boy out of school, but you can’t take school (and learning) out of the boy ( or older man at this point). Over the weekend, I was talking to Brenda about how I’ve been following the NASA feed (tweet below) and waiting for the helicopter to take flight on Mars. The […]
Music Monday: Sheryl Crow and NPR Music Tiny Desk Concerts
RichC | April 12, 2021
Stumbled across a pre-COVID19 lockdown NPRMusic Tiny Desk Concert on YouTube when watching another video from an automotive friend of mine … and since I like Sheryl Crow “music” … I figured it would be an easy fill for Music Monday. Her “Soak Up The Sun” hit from 2002 was included a couple years ago, […]
Music Monday: Paul Simon (and Art Garfunkel) – Kodachrome
RichC | April 5, 2021
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Weddings and Nice Weather indicates Spring 2021 has arrived
RichC | March 23, 2021
Besides what has become an annual photo of one of our lilac bushes pushing out buds, this past weekend was the first weekend of spring. Besides the new growth and greening lawn, we celebrated with our neighbors of 25 years, Pam and Jim by attending their son’s wedding in Cincinnati. It was a beautiful wedding […]
Music Monday: More Than a Feeling – Boston 1976
RichC | March 22, 2021
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Music Monday: North of the U.S. border with The Guess Who
RichC | March 15, 2021
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Happy Birthday Annalyn. Thinking about my granddaughter.
RichC | March 4, 2021
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Music Monday: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show video. Yikes!
RichC | March 1, 2021
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Opinion: We need an all of the above energy plan in the U.S.
RichC | February 25, 2021
As an advocate of renewable energy, be it biofuels, hydro, solar, wind, etc for decades, I don’t understand why Americans can’t come together on a united “all inclusive” energy plan? I know a few anti-solar/wind energy types, but usually they are just pushing back against the extremist wanting to do away with all fossil fuels […]
Music Monday: The Marshall Tucker Band – “Can’t You See”
RichC | February 22, 2021
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Winter weather for mid-February 2021. More snow.
RichC | February 15, 2021
Click here for ani-gif above for full 25 second iPhone slow-motion video The icy sleet on top of our existing snow and pre-cleared roads has made travel dangerous this Monday afternoon in southwest Ohio. Thankfully for President’s Day Brenda and I are home (although it was by chance and not planned) and are able to […]
The pitfalls of Zoom meetings: “I am not a cat” #humor
RichC | February 12, 2021
It was the Zoom video that nearly broke the Internet this past week and it made me smile enough to save the mp4 video to my blog. Very funny. 😊
What do you know about the Tennis Racket Theorem?
RichC | February 11, 2021
After reading about the Dzhanibekov Effect and seeing a demonstration, I just had to know more. The tennis racket theorem or intermediate axis theorem is a result in classical mechanics describing the movement of a rigid body with three distinct principal moments of inertia. It is also dubbed the Dzhanibekov effect, after Russian cosmonaut Vladimir […]
Music Monday: Gilligan’s Island theme mashed with Led Zeppelin
RichC | February 8, 2021
For those who grew up on one of my favorite TV shows, Gilligan’s Island … and in later years listened to the music of Led Zeppelin … here’s an interesting YouTube video for this week’s Music Monday. On a more depressing note, I was sad to hear America’s favorite “girl next door” actress Dawn Wells […]
Woodworking ideas: Workshop dust collection improvements
RichC | January 30, 2021
My basement woodworking shop is a dust-making mess in our house, but there isn’t much I can do about it now other than to improve how I collect and filter and keep dust from gravitating into the furnaces cold air returns and upstairs. In our previous house in Hudson Ohio, I was fortunate to have […]
Music Monday: Lexington Lab Band does 1971 Chicago song
RichC | January 25, 2021
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Music Monday: Early Pure Prairie League and Vince Gill
RichC | January 18, 2021
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The 2020 Election, the Georgia Runoff and changing America
RichC | January 7, 2021
For red, white and blue flag waving, National Anthem honoring, military respecting patriots … who believed in the traditional values that founded this country … January 6, 2021 was a tough day. The election in Georgia for control of the U.S. Senate, the last line of defense for Republicans, went to the two Democrats Raphael […]
Filler #video: We don’t have groomed hedges, but ..
RichC | January 3, 2021
Looking at the tool for tools sake, but also the technique is nice!
A cigar box for sewing clips and NE Ohio drugstore memories
RichC | January 2, 2021
Adam Savage, from Mythbusters claim-to-fame, has been regularly posting a few of his shop ideas online. A few months ago he triggered me into improving my portable Sailrite Sewing machine set-up (well my wife’s sewing machine that I use .. cough, cough). Anyway, a few weeks after he built his table for his impressive Sailrite […]
The Great Conjunction: Saturn and Jupiter align on Dec 21st
RichC | December 20, 2020
For those who enjoy astronomy, space exploration or just looking at the night sky, an event know as Saturn and Jupiter’s Great Conjunction is happening on December 21st (although look in the southern sky shortly after sunset any night this month). A “conjunction” is an event that happens every 20 years for these two planets […]
Desultory - des-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee
- lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.