Praise be to God’s Middle Finger

Here’s a book review that is long overdue. We originally requested a review copy of American Nomads by Richard Grant, but to make a long story short, we got to review God’s Middle Finger instead. And I’m glad we did. René read it first. She’s a much faster reader than I am, and suggested I write the review – hence the delay. Perhaps she knows …

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We left just in time.

Back when Lilla and Neal visited us at Jerry’s Acres, Neal suggested that we were in for a winter of heavy snow. His reasoning was based on a news story he had seen about the local Skunk Cactus ? or at least he thinks that’s what the newscaster called this weed, and I think that’s what he called it. Neal mentioned how the height at …

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How to monitor your F@#% Access Policy

During our stay at Landa Park in New Braunfels earlier this year, I thought we discovered the headquarters of HughesNet, our mobile satellite internet service provider. But it was just some company with the same name that I have decided to call the team at Hughes: FAPCo FAP (Fair Access Policy, aka: Data Cap) n: A download threshold assigned by Hughes to each HughesNet service …

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