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Someone at Makita must read this website.

October 6, 2008 8 Comments

Or else they’re just really intuitive about how many women are in the market for really good power tools these days. Oh, baby. I think

Photo Essay: A day in the life.

September 28, 2008 5 Comments

I woke up around 8 AM Saturday with a full plate of “things that needed to get done” and the idea that I should take

Been to Hell and back again… almost.

September 16, 2008 No Comments

“Hell” in this case being Reno, Nevada. It sounds like more fun that it is, especially when you have a fever, six pounds of snot

The day I fell in love with Bees.

September 2, 2008 2 Comments

Sunday, August 31, 2008. This is also the date I gave myself the second case of hives I’ve had, both in my life and in

Vertigo (And things I hope never to do again.)

July 10, 2008 3 Comments

Today I ate half of a bagel that landed cream cheese side down in construction-site dirt. I still had 3 more hours of walking up

Totally Worth It

June 26, 2008 3 Comments

I spent the better part of my waking hours today breathing the soup fresh-air of Summer and slogging around through this… … in a cracked work

Like Legos, But Bigger

June 18, 2008 4 Comments

It has been a long time since I have stepped in the shower at the end of the day and watched the water flowing to

Color

June 7, 2008 2 Comments

June has grabbed my little part of Ohio in her sweaty fists and dropkicked us right into the middle of summer. Thus ends the three

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

June 4, 2008 2 Comments

The Good The good news is that my life is full of Birthday cake, which I have been eating non-stop for the last 3 days. Like for

Pink-on-Pink & Heaven

May 29, 2008 7 Comments

Today was a pink-on-pink day… …as requested by my oldest and dearest friend, who I first met when I was sixteen days old. She

Summer Project: The Entryway

May 22, 2008 8 Comments

This is the front door to my little abode: The entire entryway has been slowly crumbling to pieces about since I bought the place four

Leopard Print Crookedbroom

May 13, 2008 7 Comments

As promised. The leopard broom! Handle close-up. MysteryMan demonstrating improper sweeping technique. This was an experiment gone right, and thank god since it was a

Free Shredding of Legal Documents

May 6, 2008 5 Comments

Last week one of the fine upstanding officers of the law decided that the six mph I was driving over the speed limit was recklessly

Miscellany

May 2, 2008 9 Comments

First, MysteryMan stole back his camera for unknown purposes before I could get the baby miniature donkey pictures off of it… an now he insists

Another reason why boobs are singularly annoying appendages.

April 24, 2008 6 Comments

(aka The Death of a Dremmel) This is now the third time my breasts have tested the limits of my dremmel, and this time, they

I'm not interested in a mediocre life. I'm here to kick ass or die.

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THE STORYTELLER

Back in 2004 I started writing about my adventures in fixing up houses on the internet. A lot of things have changed since then, with me, with my houses, and with the internet. These days I am basically a cranky old man trapped in a slightly less old woman’s body. The internet has changed and I am staunchly refusing to change with it. You won’t find any algorithms here, or feeds, or ads, or social media. Just good old-fashioned stories about a woman drinking beer and building shit, and living an unexpected life.

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