I’ve officially jumped right into the deep end of this project, and on one hand, finally, I’ve been talking about this for years. On the other hand, holyeffingshit that is…

Work-life balance has never been one of my strengths. I like to work. Hard. And for most of my adult life that has translated into sixty-hour work weeks, and a…

Alternative titles for this post: “Watch me beat the hell out of a piece of drywall”, “Things I should not post on the internet”, “When proving your point goes very,…

Note: I’d just like to thank all the regulars who’ve dropped me bits of encouragement over the last couple of posts. I really am down-to-the-bones exhausted, and hey! I’ve got…

Let me ask you a question. Which of the people in this picture look like they are about to have a heart attack: Hmmm… The last time he came over…

The only redeeming quality of a day whose temperature-high was in the negative numbers, is that it forced me to stay inside where it’s slightly less frigid and work on…

Some time ago after I had finished my MBA, and MysteryMan was in the midst of studying for his Professional Engineer’s licensing exam, I was feeling a bit forlorn about…

I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror at work today. It was the afternoon, so I’d been there nearly all day, and six hours later I stood in…

Yesterday MysteryMan and I were working out the logistics of having a bigass piece of replacement glass delivered to the Memorial House. Apparently glass delivery isn’t like FedEx delivery. You…

I have a boulder sized project-block in my life right now… so large I don’t even know how structure a sentence that will encompass all of my frustration. I’ve started…

In the last week it seems like I finally got enough balls in the air– so to speak– that I’ve managed to strike a balance between work-mysteryman-house-and-brooms. And I really…

I gotta admit, it’s a little bit fun to have Ahmed Hassan from the DIY Network say my name on camera. (Although not nearly as fun as watching him spray that…

I had to beat my printer into submission over the weekend so that I could finally put some crookedbrooms business cards together. See? Fun. Seems that I have been starting…