Tag: coronavirus
Of Zebras and Crocodiles
Zebras in Africa have a problem. They have to drink water to survive, but they haven’t mastered the science of plumbing. And because of this dearth of technical know-how, they can’t transport potable water to a safe location, and they have to subject themselves to the terror of crocodiles. Zero Zebra Deaths Aren’t an Option…
Prepping the FI Way or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Coronavirus
A bout against unemployment isn’t won the day you secure a new job. It’s won months before you even lost your job in the first place—providing you had the foresight to establish an emergency fund. In other words, preparation is the key to surviving any calamity, whether it’s large or small. This brutal lesson really…
Welding in a Time of Corona
Welding Becky Sue stops for no man—and no pandemic. Each day I trudge out to my welding “shop” and add at least five sections of rebar to Becky Sue. As of today, her body is starting to take shape. Take a gander. My goal is to have Becky Sue’s frame/skeleton finished by the end of…
Becky Sue Has an Eye!
No one ever said building a life-size scrap-metal bison was going to be easy. And it certainly hasn’t been easy to focus on the artistic challenges of the bison build while my net worth has been cratering. As of yesterday, my net worth was down $348,000. I curse you, vile coronavirus! But earlier this week,…
Curmudgeon Mr. Groovy Meets the Coronavirus
I haven’t been watching the news, but I have no doubt that our government’s response to the coronavirus has been nothing short of a ham-fisted joke. I mean, c’mon. We haven’t won a war decisively since 1945, our public schools pump out the most costly educated dunces the world has ever seen, and our national…