I have struggled using a mouse or a trackpoint or a ball for editing photos and drawing logos. I’ve always lusted for something like the WACOM Cintiq. But at $1999, it was not in my “justification budget”. My rescue came from the nearly depthless eBay. A little searching and I found a number of [...]

This blog post has been rattling around a couple of weeks. If I were writing a book, this one topic would be an entire chapter. As such, I’ll try to break it into a few parts.
“Conformity” has to do with the huge chasm between cookie-cutter homes and architecture and “everything else”. I use [...]

In part 1 I described the “joy” of getting finance for my farmhouse / shop project. Next came the challenges of actually closing on that financing.
The commercial lending department needed an appraisal on the construction project. Since it was new construction the apraisal would bve based on plans, specs, and quotes along [...]

“Scratch” and “Dent” are not a comic duo from some comic series, although it would make for a funny ad campaign. In my case, the budget for the farmhouse construction project is already in the red - at least according to my projective spreadsheet - so I am looking for every angle to save [...]