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!
Posted By RichC on October 17, 2020
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Posted By RichC on October 16, 2020
Watch what happens when this “magic hat” is put on a baby duckling …
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.
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)
Posted By RichC on October 12, 2020
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Posted By RichC on October 11, 2020
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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.
Posted By RichC on October 9, 2020
A Hollywood style TRUMP sign goes up in California “on private property” … then it is promptly taken down by California Department of Transportation citing “a life and safety issue.” Hm … I’m sure that’s what it was … and that it has nothing to do with the aggressive, anti-Trump, left-leaning politics of politicians in California. #sarcasm
It is hard to believe that “speech, debate, expression, etc” that was once the hallmark of liberal academia and of those who lean politically left are 
now being openly squelched and censored if they don’t conform to their ideology. An individuals freedom and liberty is openly under attack and yet many Americans seem willing to let it happen, so as long is it fits their political view.
Sadly it is happening when it comes to the Supreme Court as well .. no longer do Democrats seek justices who interpret cases based on the Constitution, but desire ones who actively write and rule to advance their desired outcome.
Posted By RichC on October 8, 2020
While doing some the pool house garage cleaning and reorganizing over the past couple of weeks, a piece of the old shag carpeting I duct taped onto
the old wooden ladder I acquired in the 1980s fell off. As usual, it triggered memories.
First, the good times Brenda and I had with our sailboat Brenich, pre-kids, then Tulla with kids and finally many years of using this same old wooden ladder to climb into the loft of the barn both in Hudson, Ohio and then for the last 20 years to the loft in the pool house garage. I’ve probably been up and down the ladder thousands of times and I still regularly put up Christmas lights and wreaths and it is the “ladder of choice” to get onto the lower roofs, even though I have an aluminum one. In all that time the scraps of carpet I taped to the ladder, to prevent scratching the the boat, stayed in place … until last week when a piece fell off. It was only then that I noticed the real carpet color and remembered it from my families house on Lake Erie. It was once wrapped the round footstool we fondly referred to as “the pig.” Great memories.