Reminder to myself: We need a new trash can. #video
Posted By RichC on October 20, 2020
Just a “beary” interesting video that is making its way around social media. The bear is a big one, but I’m more impressed with the trash can!
Music Monday: “Upside Down” and “Broken” with Jack Johnson
Posted By RichC on October 19, 2020
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Tidbits: Just a simple Band-Aid bandaging tip for a finger joint
Posted By RichC on October 18, 2020
About half the time I need to cover a cut with a Band-Aid, it is on a finger. Often right where the joint flexes and then even the better stretchy bandages bunch, unstick and come off. Here’s a tip for covering the finger when dealing with a joint … and it works for the tip of you finger rather than two BandAids or extra tape too!
Archive: A couple family photos from this past week
Posted By RichC on October 17, 2020
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Friday Filler: Probably the cutest thing you will see this week
Posted By RichC on October 16, 2020
Watch what happens when this “magic hat” is put on a baby duckling …
Books: Finished Operation Vengeance, starting Pacific Crucible
Posted By RichC on October 14, 2020
This past week I finally finished Dan Hampton’s excellent historical World War II book titled “Operation Vengeance” 
about the operation to kill Isoroku Yamamoto and can finally move on to the book I mentioned in September after reading a WSJ review. Since the “reviewed” book was the third and finally Ian W. Toll’s book in the Pacific Trilogy series, I figured I would start with “Pacific Crucible.”
So far I like the author’s writing style and quickly looked up a few photos, names (Admiral Harold Rainsford “Betty” Stark) and maps for visual purposes … and even reflected and referred to my blog photos from our time at Pearl Harbor. The account of Japanese Zeros so low as to see the uncanopied pilot’s cats-eye goggles brings the 1941 attack at Pearl Harbor a bit more intimate.
Workshop dust control for a basement woodworking shop
Posted By RichC on October 13, 2020
Thrifty or maybe frugal is the word choice that I use, but occasionally “cheapskate” might be a better fit? 
I’ve used a 3-speed Jet Tools Air Filtration System to clean the air in my basement woodworking workshop to reduce the amount of dust. It works reasonable well but suspect a lot of dust still makes it way upstairs.
Two of the maintenance items required for optimum efficiency are the filters. First is the electrostatic disposable particle filter which collects most of the dust followed by the Inner Pocket Filter (not seen in photo) that can be taken out and cleaned. The company also sells a “washable” electrostatic outer filter but at over twice the price is hard to swallow.
For me, it is costly enough to replace the filters in our 3 furnaces, but I do it more often at the request of my wife. She asks me to replace them ever 3 months rather than my 6 month interval … although I’m pretty laxed about it. Lately I’ve noticed that the better grade of hypoallergenic filters I been buying aren’t as dirty, at least to my naked eye, so I’ve repurposed by cutting them down to fit in the Jet AFS-1000B. I’m sure the experts would say that 
the “reused” furnace filter is not the same as a $20 stock “electrostatic” filter, but for me they are always plenty caked with dust when I replace them. Eventually I’ll buy a new “proper” filter, but for now, this is an inexpensive way to get double duty out of filters AND encourage me to change the whole house furnace filters sooner. (also in a user’s online test, filter or no filter, shops are still dusty)
Music Monday: Are you ‘feeling groovy’ this morning?
Posted By RichC on October 12, 2020
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Most parents and grandparents have room for improvement
Posted By RichC on October 11, 2020
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My son Taylor has been busy professionally and personally
Posted By RichC on October 10, 2020
As a dad who has always kept up and archived the “goings-on” with Taylor and Katelyn on MyDesultoryBlog, I realized that grandchildren steal the limelight most of the time … that is just the way it is. But … that doesn’t mean life doesn’t keep moving along for adult children in the work-a-day world either.
This past week, Taylor updated me on “creating his first subdivision” as a planner. To be sure, he has worked on several in both North Dakota and here in Ohio, but this will be the first for him from the start professionally. What dad isn’t happy to see their grown 
children wanting to share these kinds of accomplishments? I am very proud and impressed.
He is also in that phase of life where big life changes happen. Good friends take jobs in different states (his closest friend Mike will soon be moving to Maine), a few who are married are having children … and good buddies like Cam Harter are getting married. Besides the guys of the wedding party having a great bachelor party at Lake Tahoe amidst COVID19 situation (photos above), they had a great wedding in Cincinnati this past month. Congratulations Margaret and Cameron.
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.