Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Rambling Wow, what glorious weather. It actually got too hot for my taste, but I'll take it. I'm focusing on greens this year more than ever. Planted over the last six weeks: six types of lettuce, three types of spinach, endive, chicory, green mustard wave,

As part of our trip to Las Vegas, we hit three parks: Fire Valley State Park, the Grand Canyon, and Death Valley. Here's us on the floor of Death Valley, temperature: 100 degrees:

Me at the Grand Canyon, kinda:

Gin season quickly approaches. I'm looking forward to it, though I doubt my vodka consumption will suffer much: > This tasty gin cocktail combines the Last Word and the Gin Fizz: https://t.co/TToBTopqCC pic.twitter.com/LB9KsvBIss [https://t.co/LB9KsvBIss] > — Liquor.com (@Liquor) April

Miscellaneous Rambling A few more Vegas thing. First, O'Hare Airport absolutely sucks [http://www.flychicago.com/ohare/en/home/Pages/default.aspx]. Our flight out to Vegas was delayed five (yes, five) hours. While we were trying to sleep, O'Hare decided, of all the gates in

Here are videos taken with my phone, with the corresponding degree of professionalism.

Things to Do There's one reason to go to Vegas: The huge array of things to do. There's no good way for me to explain it in general, so I'm just going to list the things we did and offer commentary. The casino hotels-resorts.

First, The Caveat Marie and I have long wanted to to to Las Vegas. We're not big gamblers, and I hope we're not big decadents, but it has become a big city with huge cultural significance. Like Chicago that went from nothing to huge in the

> Clinton Campaign Treasurer Crushed To Death After Stack Of Campaign Funds Topples Over https://t.co/Tqpnt9xH3n pic.twitter.com/1AQlrH63oy [https://t.co/1AQlrH63oy] > — The Onion (@TheOnion) April 9, 2016 [https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/718827089726697473] > "Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing

Every sin gushes from a complex soul. In the biblical tradition, it is the heart, which the Pseudo-Macarius, a master of intimate theology, describes as follows: > The heart itself is but a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and there are also lions; there are poisonous beasts and all