Best Laid Plans…
January 16, 2025
I actually thought I was going to build a workbench today. 🤦♂️ I should have known better.
I’m Going All In
January 15, 2025
After days of timidly testing the waters, I finally just jumped in head first. I’m tearing it all down and starting from scratch and I couldn’t be happier about it.
Buying Other People’s Time Is A Priceless Investment
January 14, 2025
This garage purge had me feeling crazy today, but I’ve come to realize that was just the old me dying, so the new me can live. Btw, how clean does that workbench look?
Clap For The Wolf Moon 👏 👏 👏
January 13, 2025
A walk under a full moon, and a garage update.
Simplicity Simply Isn’t Simple
January 12, 2025
Stores are packed with so much shit, these days that there’s no room to pass another person in aisles, and yet, they never have what I’m looking for.
It Was Actually A Pretty Nice Little Saturday
January 11, 2025
I hadn’t been out of the house all week, so even spending the day doing chores was a thrill.
It Was That Kind Of Day
January 10, 2025
Who needs enemies with a brain like this?
Does That Look Like A Falling Sky?
January 9, 2025
Blue skies over SImi Valley while Los Angeles burns.
And It Begins
January 8, 2025
So, I decided to let it all go. Now what?
New Year, New Mindset: Facing Your Issues
January 7, 2025
Am I having an existential crisis? Am I a recovering hoarder? Is scraping unfinished projects running away from your problems? All of these questions and more won’t be answered in this post.
Zenith VC-1800: Will I Ever Find My Elusive Unicorn?
January 6, 2025
I finally found the video camera I’ve been searching for for the past two years, but was not to be!
DIY: Luxury For The Wealthy, Torture For The Poor
January 5, 2025
I fucking hate DIY!
Mannequin Puts The Man In Mannequin
January 4, 2025
I saw this goofy looking mannequin today, and it reminded me of all of the mannequins that have passed through my life over the years.
Resolutely Resolving My Resolutions
January 3, 2025
Today, I started a 365 day outfit-of-the day challenge. If you know me, you understand why that’s funny. If you don’t, you will.
Venus And A Crescent Moon Dancing On the Water
January 2, 2025
I must invest in a decent camera.
More Of This Please, 2025, Less Of Those 2024 Vibes
January 1, 2025
New Year’s Day 2025 Sunset
2024, Good Riddance, You Won’t Be Missed!
December 31, 2024
This god-forsaken year of our lord, 2024, is finally over. Let us rejoice in it’s terminus as we look back one last time at this odious year.
Merry Christmas! 🎅🎄 🎁 🤶
December 24, 2024
My 2024 was what that bowl of yogurt looks like. I hope your’s was better, and I look forward to a fresh start in the new year!
Sleep In Heavenly Peas
December 23, 2024
I Passed 1,000 Subscribers With A Video About Simi Valley
December 16, 2024
My YouTube channel, 25 to Life in Simi Valley, just passed 1,000 subscribers, and it’s all because of a video I made about a traffic light.
Water For Elephants: Man Is More Atavistic Than Beast
December 9, 2024
Water for Elephants is the story of a horny young man’s quest for his first nut despite a quick succession of life-altering tragedies.
Vampire Weeknd
November 4, 2024
I make no apologies.
Shake Shack Got Me Shook But In A Bad Way
October 27, 2024
Shake Shack was not what I expected, but did my expectations let me down, or did Shake Shack?
How To and NOT To Repair an Insta360 One X
October 22, 2024
I replaced the lenses in my Insta360 One X and it didn’t all go smoothly. I made this guide so you can learn from my mistakes.
Our Collective Memory Wiped Clean
October 11, 2024
Just four years ago this package of toilet paper could have fetched a premium online. Now it lies damaged and sullied in the gutter. How quickly we forget.
Just A Box Of Shit
September 23, 2024
Well, I guess you can just walk into the store and buy a box of shit now.
The Original Pizza Cookery Has Better “Tea” Than Service
August 5, 2024
Listening to a young woman’s lament regarding her struggle to conceive made me reflect on the role The Original Pizza Cookery played in my own journey into parenthood.
There Is No Spoon
July 25, 2024
I’m out for my nightly walk, and the last thing I need is a creepy little bald training monk jumping out of the bushes at me. I know he’s around here somewhere.
Mutant Blue Frog Has A Pompadour
July 19, 2024
No one is talking about this mutant blue frog’s pompadour, so I will. His name is The Big Hopper. It was either that or Buddy Polly-wog. It’s true that it has blue skin, but I want to know if anyone is working on a matching pair of suede shoes for him. He could wear them […]
That Can’t Be Right
June 27, 2024
I misread “Texas Prepares” as “Tax Preparers” and it made the headline so much more unsettling.
Please Leave Your Conversation At The Beep
May 6, 2024
How does a phone call between two people end up on my voicemail? Seriously, if you know, please tell me.
A Rorschach Test In Hotel Room Art
April 29, 2024
What do you see in this painting?
Togassholes
April 7, 2024
One of my biggest peeves is people crowding me at the check stand. It’s one of the things I thought COVID might permanently solve, but just like all of the other COVID related paradigm shifts, it came back.
The Astonishing But 100% True Story Of How A Rat Stole My AirPods
February 7, 2024
This is the incredible, but true, story about how a rat stole my AirPods, destroyed them, and then returned them to me.
Are We Absolutely Sure That Wasn’t The Big One?
January 16, 2024
The 1994 Northridge earthquake shook me to my core. For the first year and a half afterward I didn’t think I would ever recover from that morning. I’m not entirely sure I have.
Merry Christmas!🎄🎅🤶🎁
December 25, 2023
Kevin!
It Only Takes One
October 23, 2023
Sometimes I wonder if the internet’s democratization of everything is an entirely good thing.
Sangria Recipe To Salve The Soul This Fall
September 22, 2023
This sangria recipe will be a hit with all of your friends and family this fall.
Shit Jobs
September 6, 2023
I’ve done some bad jobs, but I’ve managed to avoid wet work so far.
Cabbage Soup Diet: My Life Changed In A Week
July 12, 2023
My friend Brian always says, when the student is ready, the teacher arrives. I’ve seen that quote play out in my life countless times, but never so much as when, on a whim, I decided to try my first diet.
Retro Dining Chairs – Like New In 6 Easy Steps
June 14, 2023
You can recover your old retro dining chairs yourself. It’s easy to do and it will save you money! Follow this tutorial to learn how.
I used the Porter Cable 4216 Dovetail Jig to cut sliding dovetails into a Jatoba to build a little shelf for a wall mount corkscrew.
We’re All Out Of Ideas
May 21, 2023
This is just unabashed, late-stage capitalism. We’ve run out of ideas, but we still got to service that debt! It might be excusable to import sand to someplace like Nebraska where beach sand might be scarce. But this jar of sand is for sale at Lowe’s, just 20 miles from the beach, where you can […]
Mankind is A Cruel Species
February 10, 2023
Not So Smart Water
December 29, 2022
I’ll never understand the selective laziness of the person who goes to the trouble to leave their house, buys a bottle of water, puts forth the effort to drill a hole in the cap of the bottle, and procures a bendy straw just to drink as much water as the bendy straw can reach. Then […]
My Evening With Gallagher
November 11, 2022
My Introduction To The Comedy Stylings of Mr. Leo Gallagher I guess I was about 14 the first time I saw Gallagher. My mom and I were visiting my brother in Colorado. The three of us and his girlfriend were sitting around the living room in their old, rundown, single-wide trailer when Gallagher’s “We Need […]
Long Live The King
September 8, 2022
The Competition is Fierce
December 30, 2021
Imagine four different people all deciding to list their piano for free at the same time.
Gluten-Free Wine List For Gluten-Free Wine Lovers
May 23, 2021
I know there is a lot of speculation that wine is generally gluten-free and safe for those afflicted with a sensitivity to wheat/gluten, but I’m not so sure. It should be safe being grapes, yeast, and sulfites, but it doesn’t always seem to be. Depending on who you ask, there are elements of the winemaking […]
How To Replace Mavic Air Arm: Easy DIY Guide
December 9, 2020
My DJI Mavic Air recently fell out of the sky quite unexpectedly. Its tumble to Earth left the left-rear motor smooshed and deformed and wouldn’t spin freely anymore. I didn’t even think to replace the whole arm on my Mavic Air initially. At first, I tried to see if I could simply replace the motor […]