My Desultory Blog

RichC | September 1, 2018

Some interesting results using my birth town and the "number of 90 degree days" in a New York Times "tool" which I interpret as wanting to alarm us into action over the "human induced climate change" projections. If you haven’t already dug your heels in with an opinion (likely influenced by politics either way) … […]

Category: Energy, Environment, Nature, Politics, Science, Weather | No Comments »
Tags: carbon, change, climate, cooling, emissions, global, grain of salt, idiom, idioms, interactive, nytimes, warming, weather

RichC | February 18, 2018

Too many times in life I find myself fiddling to repairs something that really just needs to be thrown away. Case in point (see interesting idiom explanation below) … I brought home an LED fixture that replaced a higher wattage halogen bulb that works well in Encore‘s cabin, but for some reason the pin/plugs must have […]

Category: Misc, Sailing, Tidbits | No Comments »
Tags: encore, epoxy, fixture, idioms, led, lights, repair, sailboat

RichC | February 7, 2018

This ain’t my first rodeo (was looking for an excuse to use the idiom) as it pertains to stretching the life of my favorite pair of Sperry Topsiders. The idiom this ain’t my first rodeo is generally traced back to the movie Mommie Dearest, in which the character Joan Crawford says, “This ain’t my first […]

Category: History, Misc, Personal, Tidbits | No Comments »
Tags: boatshoes, bridge, epoxy, idioms, market garden, shoes, sperry, topsider, ww2

RichC | May 27, 2017

We’re not their yet … but we’ve been doing a little more thinking about retirement and how many more years of work it is going to be at a comfortable level when we no long punch the proverbial time clock. Brenda and I are not in harmony quite yet, as one of us would prefer […]

Category: Financial, Human Interest, Personal | 2 Comments »
Tags: estates, family, idioms, money, parents, Personal, retirement