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Post #2048: My Vienna pool/gym proposal Q and A.
Post #2047: Bitter disappointment.
Post #2046: The market (?) for swim club memberships around Vienna, VA.
Post #2045: Organizational memory in Vienna VA.
Post #2044: Eleven times as many annual contracts per square foot of pool?
Post #2043: A break for some relaxing pool arithmetic.
Post #2042: Local indoor public pools.
Post #2041: Think of it as evolution in action.
Post #2040: Reposting a little perspective on growth in the Town of Vienna budget.
Post #2039: Pro-pool propaganda is an objectionable use of tax dollars.
Post #2038: Wading into the Town of Vienna pool, adding on a baby pool
Post #2037: Wading into the Town of Vienna pool.
Post #2036: Replacing my heat pumps III: The tax angles.
Post 2035: Oh for ducts’ sake!
Post #2034: Hooray, I’m overweight. 65 pounds and still a loser.
Post #2033: A rare double-attaboy today.
Post 2032: Replacing my heat pumps, part II: How efficient are my ground-source and mini-split hea…
Post 2031: Both of my heat pumps have died? This should be interesting.
Post G24-027: A review of my vegetable garden year.
G24-026: Squash-off, round II: Tromboncino versus Butternut.
Post #2030: Evacuation orders.
Post #2029: 20 bags of QPR, finishing the repair.
Post 2028: Shortages in the rear-view mirror.
Post #2027: Toilet paper and self-fulfilling prophecies
Post #2026: A quick value calculation, part 2, what’s the automation/job loss issue?
Post #2025: A quick value calculation
Post #2024: Have Republicans finally jumped the shark/turned the corner/gotten fed up?
Post #2023: Protein supplements and building muscle mass.
Post #2022: 13,000 murderers … something something something … illegal immigrants? It&…
Post #2021: Animal-based protein supplements, digested.
Post #2020: Reflections on my 66th birthday
Post #2019: The price of stamps.
Post #2018: The five prices of silver, while I can still recall them.
Post #2017: The price of gold is up. That’s never good.
Post #2016: Two Black Women Stole the Election, the re-run
Post #2015: Week 3 of my readership drought. Why my website is like my inbox.
Post #2014: Stocking up on dog meat.
Post G24-025: Squash-off, round 1: Waltham Butternut versus Georgia Candy Roaster.
Post #2013: Haitians? It’s a twice-sticky story.
Post #2012: Week 2 of my readership drought. Apparently, potty mouth was not the problem.
Post #2011: Simple, reversible center-draft oil lamp conversion to electricity.
Post #2010: PFAs, the revenge of Freon
Post #2009: Punished for potty mouth?
Post #2008: Pedestrian traffic counts via cheap camera.
Post #2007: How hard is it to switch to wood cutting boards?
Post G24-024: So that’s what okra is supposed to look like.
Post #2006: 55 pounds and still a loser. Further boring observations.
Post #2005: 55 pounds and still a loser. Maybe boring is good.
Post #2004: Switching to sugar-free credit cards. I mean cutting boards.
Post 2003: TiLite Aero fork bearing replacement, Part 3: Replacing the bearings.
Post 2002: TiLite fork bearing replacement, Part 2: A short treatise on wheelchair bearings.
Post 2001: TiLite Aero fork bearing replacement, Part 1: Rust never sleeps.
Post #2000: A sidewalk, at $2000 per linear foot, in the Town of Vienna VA
Post #1999: Power outages aren’t what they used to be.
Post #1998: Done in by a push pin.
Post #1997: Fixing a resin-cased watch with a broken lug
Post #1996: How does Harris view tariffs?
Post G24-023: Taste test of tromboncino, cucuzzi, and yellow summer squash.
Post G24-022: Time is nonlinear in the garden.
Post #1995: The Green New Deal. Like getting underwear for Christmas.
Post #1994: East Coast forest fire smoke. Again?
Post #1993: Reflections on renewing my driver’s license.
Post #1992: Minimum wage.
Post #1991: My bike made a funny noise the other day …
Post #1990: About time.
Post #1989: What fraction of U.S. gasoline consumption is for lawn mowing?
Post 1988: Global warming in single graphic.
Post #1987: Just another bit of Future Shock.
Post #1986: Chevy Bolt six-month review.
Post #1985: Some comments on decaffeination and weight loss.
Post G24-021: It’s hot out. Time to shake my tomatoes
Post #1984: “All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.”
Post #1983: Commentary on the recent Presidential debate.
Post G24-020: (Not quite the) driest June on record.
Post G24-019: Photosynthetic efficiency, or finally understanding the back-yard garden trellis.
Post G24-018: Where are the bugs?
Post #1982: Will the real political donation limit please stand up?
Post G24-017: First Japanese beetle and first red tomato. A first.
Post #1981: Have you ever wondered why fat guys hang their gut over their belt?
Post #1980: What’s the opposite of nostalgia?
Post #1979: Catching up with a few things.
Post #1978: Bike E Rehab, part 2
Post G24-016: Gardening update, early June 2024.
Post #1977: Updated: Twenty bags, and done. What I have learned about QPR asphalt cold patch.
Post #1976: Bike E Rehab
Post #1975: Ashes in my mouth.
Post #1974: Nine bags down, five to go. What I have learned about QPR cold patch.
Post #1973: Next up in asphalt rehab, salting my driveway.
Post #1972: Korean Bell at Meadowlark Gardens Park
Post #1971: Dealing with an ageing pavement.
Post #1970: Learning R as a veteran SAS programmer.
Post #1969: Rainy-day this and that.
Post #1968: Dead microwave.
Post G24-015: Gardening in shorts.
Post G24-014: Creeping Charlie puller and other garden items.
Post #1967: Friday/Saturday this-n-that. Part 3: Vegetative propagation via air layering.
Post #1966: Friday/Saturday this-n-that. Part 2: The soothing sound of … water hammer?
Post #1965: Friday/Saturday this-n-that. Part 1: A state of decaffeination
Post #1964: Scraping the bottom of the barrel, for artichokes.
Post #1963: Changing light bulbs at the rate of 1/year.

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Post G24-021: It’s hot out. Time to shake my tomatoes

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