30 years ago they were “Where America Shops.”

Does anyone shop at Sears anymore? I ask only because we went tonight, and it was pretty sad – a shell of what I remember Sears being in days past. Employees were scarce. Almost as scarce as customers. I found one fitting room in the entire store, monitored by closed ciruit TV’s at the door […]

Extreme Makeover, North Pole Edition

Christmas break is the perfect time to tear up perfectly good (yet cluttered) living spaces and get ready to remodel. Or, so I hear. And ‘remodel’ is our own cheapass way of doing it, we can’t afford a real rip-down-the-walls type of remodel, so today we are: Replacing the kitchen faucet, which after a dozen […]

It’s just the little things

I am resisting making a bullet list, but that’s probably all this entry is. Just sorta a recap of recent events and “stuff” from yours truly. Mir and Otto are getting married! Go say hi. No word on whether she’ll lift the restraining order so I can go to the nuptials. On the blog front, […]