Eric Scheske

Miscellaneous Rambling "I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt." Johnny Cash, Sunday Morning Coming Down. It's one of my favorite Johnny Cash songs, and I was living it yesterday after a fundraiser for Max's

Gardening Rambling I don't know if it's a testament to Salanova lettuce, a trait of lettuce in general, or a gardening miracle, but it looks like all, or almost all, of my 47 lettuce plugs survived last week's high winds, freezing temperatures, snow, hail,

Brews You Can Use I found a trove of drinking news over here [http://brutalhammer.com/]. A few of the better ones: Good to know: "Professor Andrew Jarosz of Mississippi State University and colleagues served vodka-cranberry cocktails to 20 male subjects until their blood alcohol levels neared legal intoxication

Lecture Notes Every historian recognizes that, by 1000, commerce was increasing and with it, wealth. Technology was advancing. The Dark Ages were over, caput, finished. It was onward and upward pretty much non-stop from there, allowing Europe to, almost literally, conquer the world by the 19th century. There was a

Quick Rambling Wow, what brutal weather these past couple of days. I'm guessing my 50 lettuce plugs didn't make it, but I won't get a chance to check them out until tomorrow. If we lost the crop, it'll probably be a $250

Miscellany: The Trailer One significant inconvenience has dogged me this gardening season: a new car. My old van died on me last November. I bought a 2017 Kia Sorento, which I really, really like. I like it so much, I don't like to get it dirty by transporting

Miscellaneous Rambling This was a tough post to write. I had to dedicate yesterday to prepping for my Theology on Tap lecture on epistemology, which led me pull old books off the shelves and review my underlinings (or pull old books into my Kindle and look at highlightings) on topics

> "Nisbet's best line ever, and he meant it: 'A square block in Manhattan has more community than the entire city of Tucson.'" https://t.co/kpR0L4CCxY > — The American Conservative (@amconmag) April 13, 2018 [https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/984758095057305600?ref_src=twsrc%

Miscellany Working Saturday. I'm blessed to have a job with flexible hours that enable me to take advantage of nice days like we had this week, but it is a job that requires me to put in the hours, so when the rain comes out, I go in.

"Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum." GKC I only drink when I'm not wretched without it, so I hope that takes me out of the grey-faced slum, but man, I've been