April 23, 2020
Meatball Recipe
I have been doing a lot of cooking and posting some of the pictures to instagram, but it has been a while since I posted a recipe. So, I took a lot of photos when cooking something up last week, and decided to share a post about it! This recipe was a bit of a fail, but I learned from it and have an improved version I will share in a later post. I’m a huge fan of pasta. Perhaps one of the indirect reasons I love (loved?) running so much is that it was a great excuse to eat[…continue reading]
April 22, 2020
Earth Day: Consider a Tankless Water Heater
Today is Earth Day and I wanted to share an economical and realistic idea of trying to do something for the Earth. Over the last year there was a lot of unhelpful talk about completely ending all use of fossil fuels immediately. It’s a laudable goal, but without a massive improvement in technology, massive reduction energy consumption, and/or population dive of biblical proportions, we aren’t going to independent of fossil fuel use any time soon. But, realistic steps in the right direction that are quite feasible. Some already well-known home retrofits for reducing energy use include: Switching ancient incandescent bulbs[…continue reading]
April 6, 2020
Living through the COVID-19 Pandemic: April 2020
Depending on how you measure it, we’re in about the 4th week of the COVID-19 or coronavirus pandemic. So many things are closed. Life as we know it has changed. It’s starting to feel pretty surreal. I was skeptical about all the headlines it was grabbing a few weeks ago. It seems like a narrative-driven media hype. I didn’t think it was much worse than the common flu. I was wrong. This virus is strange and almost cunning. It has a nasty way of being spread: You could be contagious with this virus for up to 14 days and show[…continue reading]
