Sentence of Dave

We were doing ethical relativism and ethical universalism in Philosophy class today and I had a thought that merits further development-- by...

For your reading pleasure, here is the (mostly) complete saga of the shed . . . I'm sure there will be a couple more posts about organiz...

Tuesday is generally the worst day of the week- neither here nor there-- but despite this, I manned up and shingled half a shed and then bro...

My shed now has doors-- which were a pain in the ass to hang-- a clasp, some custom-built shelves (I didn't screw up the measuring, not ...

Thursday night, Rob the Plumber told an excellent joke and I liked that he told it as an exercise in minimalism . . . the joke got funnier o...

Ruth Ware's new mystery thriller One by One  is totally entertaining, especially if you love skiing and snowboarding; it's set in th...

This morning during my first period College Writing class, I scrawled a brilliant and inspirational epigram on an 8.5 by 11 piece of printer...

 When everything blooms, sleep with the windows in your bedroom closed (what a difference).

Terry, Mike, and I took a walk on our free period yesterday and when we got to the back of the building we saw the back "smokers" ...

I took a break from shed building today (and wow was I sore from shed building) to host the First Day of School in April . . . it's the ...

I started banging nails at 8 AM this morning-- my wife thought I was pushing it and might upset the neighbors-- but I knew I had a long day ...

My life has become very orderly: I'm either building the shed or taking breaks from building the shed (otherwise known as living your li...

I built the base for my shed and read the instructions to build the actual shed and I am afraid to open the shed package (although the deer...

Tuesday afternoon, my wife started preparing two elaborate recipes ( Crispy Sour Cream and Onion Chicken and some Ethiopian lentil dish) an...

The shed project continues: I've leveled out the base, bordered it with bricks, put down plastic pavers, added the pea gravel, hauled th...

It was a rainy Sunday yesterday, so . . . 1) I read over a hundred pages of Chen Qiufan's futuristic vision Waste Tide  . . . it's t...

Yesterday, after purchasing, loading, and unloading a dozen bags of pea gravel (for the shed base) I substituted again in the tennis league ...

It's not a fun read, but it's compelling; Kurt Andersen's new book Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America  is a comprehensive hi...

Shed shit is happening, slowly but surely.

Thoughts and prayers are the opposite of solutions and action.