On January 19, 1995, I set off on a trip to Kazakhstan to help find ways in which American computer technology could help improve the safety and/or efficiency of the coal mining industry in that country, which had recently become an independent state, no longer under the domination of the Soviet Union.  I left Columbus… Read More

Of course, like all woodworkers, I could show you every place where I made a mistake, where the final project is not perfect - but I won't. Read More

I realized as the the words were coming out of my mouth that "real" and "Velveeta" should never be used in the same sentence.  Read More

I had little knowledge of the works of those people in the Castle on Mount Auburn Street. Read More

Sorry, I can’t think of a song for this story, it’s too solemn a subject. On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was in Birmingham, AL, for the quarterly meeting of the Environment Sector of the Electric Power Research Institute.  After breakfast at the hotel, a group of us piled into a van to… Read More

That really impressed the neighbors! Read More

James Taylor described himself metaphorically as a handyman.  I’m the real thing. Read More

There's always the Google machine. Read More

While we were practicing parking, the brakes went out on my dad's Buick LeSabre!  Read More

So, over the last 65 years, I have progressed from my room to my recliner and my shop, and I am as happy as a clam. Read More