I'm the village idiot, I don't have anything to do with this pathetic little opera, I just felt like passing through!
Visiting my daughter and her family over the holidays, we all came down with the same illness. It was pretty bad and we were all sick for a week. I am the world’s worst patient. It seems this is especially the case when I am visiting my kids where I want to be the helping … Read more
He was my friend, the best man at my wedding. And then we lost touch for 35 years…
Larry Frame was born to a teenage, unwed mother on 17 August 1954. Shortly after his birth he was taken by an adoption agency. HIs mother was still in high school. My guess is that the decision to put Larry up for adoption was not hers. I do not know a lot about how Larry … Read more
COVID-19 quarantine shuts down much of town retail in Dillon, MT. Agricultural business carries on with few changes. Quarantine creates pent up demand that very well might be the driving factor in reigniting the economy.
We moved to Montana in August 2018. We rented a classic old house that was built in 1920 something. February 2019 was the second coldest in history in Montana. The cold weather in Montana I expected. That part, I signed up for. On 01 February, the boiler in this classic old house went out. The … Read more
When I was young I wanted to be a cowboy. They told me there were no cowboys left in the world; I believed them. I was 37 years old when I discovered that they had lied to me. Saddest day of my life. I love cowboy culture.
At the end of May I left my job at Clover. Using money from Roku stock I will be moving to Montana to start a technology consulting firm that will help ranchers and livestock growers use and manage technology in their operations.
There will be new challenges but I will finally be living and working among the ranchers and cowboys.
What would you do with a million dollars? How much is a million dollars? If you have a million dollars, can you quit your day job?
The truck originally had a 230 CID inline 6 engine connected to a column shifted, 3 speed transmission. At some point the 230 was replaced with a 1976 250 CID 6 cylinder. The truck ran well enough to drive it the 125 miles home but there was plenty of work to be done.
Here we are, 2013. The Mayans are embarrassed or, western European/American anthropologists do not really understand the Mayans. A year ago I published my New Year’s resolutions here. I managed to keep one of the three. Sort of. Posting a blog entry once a week was the first resolution to go by the way side. … Read more