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My First Mechanical Success
It is hard to put something back together when you disassembled it using only a large flat screwdriver and a hammer.
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Driving to Work in a Chicken Coop
Imagine sitting inside of a chicken coop as it is shoved through the atmosphere at 65 mph – feathers, dust, noise, shuddering and shaking – you get the idea!
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My Problems Are Fine
Everyone always has problems in life no matter what. And if I had to pick problems to have, I’d say mine are fine.
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Dissolving Steel Out of Aluminum with Alum Powder
This apparently comes from an old watchmaker’s trick. They frequently break steel screws in brass and they use this method to dissolve the screw out of the brass.
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The Fate of a Bunny
That time we gave our van to a homeless lady and then her dog ended up killing our pet bunny.
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A Remarkable Series of Events
It all started when someone tried to give me a motorcycle.
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Four Teenagers Drive a Saturn to Mexico
That time three friends and I graduated high school and drove my $600 car from Pennsylvania to Mexico and back again.
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Fence Jumper
I fix the van, build a fence to keep my children from hitchhiking, and massacre spiders in my basement.
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Palm Trees & Plagues
I don’t really know how many tentacles an octopus has but a toddler always has eight more than you do.
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Win Some, Lose Some
I climbed over two fence rows, a rather prickly bush, and slid down a bridge embankment before I reached a road I could trudge down, looking lost and forlorn with…
