I picked up this book on a lark from the library shelf. It looked like a fun little browse book, but turned into a good read about everyday life in the Middle Ages.
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The Devil’s Financial Dictionary by Jason Zweig Book Review
The Devil’s Financial Dictionary was a small book that I picked up at the library. It’s inspired by Ambrose Bierce’s satirical Devil’s Dictionary back in 1906. The writer is a long-time veteran of the financial industry.
[Read more…] about The Devil’s Financial Dictionary by Jason Zweig Book Review50 Hikes in the North Georgia Mountains by Johnny Molloy Book Review
I’ve owned Johnny Molloy’s original 50 Hikes in the North Georgia Mountains for years. It’s helped me plan hikes to Raven Cliffs, James Edmonds Loop, Tesnatee Gap, among others.
So when I found out that he was coming out with full color pictures, fully revised text, and topographical maps – I put it right at the top of my wishlist. Even though it was a little weird buying a new edition of a book, this one was fully worthwhile.
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A few months ago, I got a free rain barrel & kit from the City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management after attending a short workshop.
I attended mainly because we were having drainage issues & standing water on the side of our house. I really didn’t want to install a french drain system or do any digging at all. Generic Internet research led me to rain gardens though, like most Internet solutions, the steps seemed *way* too involved for what was basically planting plants & increasing soil depth.
Either way, I went to the workshop and figured that a rain barrel would just be a nice bonus.
*Not in Atlanta? Get a kit from Rain Barrel Depot or Amazon. Amazon also has a whole selection of full-size barrels plus the kit.
I had heard of rain barrels before. But I thought they took forever to fill up and were more of a potential nuisance than a truly useful tool.
[Read more…] about Rain Barrel ReviewBooks Read in 2019
From 2007 to 2012, I read 263+ books. But I did not stop there. I haven’t kept up the same pace – but have kept on tracking every book I’ve read since. Ideally, I’ve also written a short lessons learned or review of each. Here’s the books I’ve read this past year.
On recommendations, I generally stop reading a book after 100 pages if it’s not any good. So everything that I finished is worth reading.
*all the links below go to Amazon for convenience, but I definitely recommend purchasing books from Alibris. They support local booksellers, and often have even better used pricing.
[Read more…] about Books Read in 2019The Hot Sauce Test
I’ve used hot sauces for years. In high school, Tabasco went on all my sandwiches. Hot sauce went on all my tacos and Tex-Mex food. During college, I went through a phase of hunting down (then) rare and hard to find Habanero pepper-based sauces.
But in recent years, I started phasing out hot sauces out of neglect more than anything. I put Texas Pete Original on roast beef but never went beyond into more adventuresome sauces (though my fellow millenials kept the trend up).
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