Monthly Archives: August 2014

Wedged

I found a ripe tomato wedged in between the fence boards. It made me think of how no matter how much I dislike someone, they just want to make it like anyone else. We are all struggling to survive, one way or another. Some have better karma (better positioning, sunlight, nutrients) while others have to […]

Copy Cat

We have three waste bins, the gray and blue bins are collected every week, while the green bin is collected every other. My neighbor usually puts out his bins before we do, so when I see his green bin by the curb, I drag my green bin out too. When I went to collect the bins this morning, […]

Suicide Risk in the Elderly

Sleep Problems Raise Suicide Risk In The Elderly (NBC) Elderly adults with sleep problems may have an increased risk of suicide — even if they have no symptoms of depression. Researchers found men and women who reported poor sleep quality at the beginning of a ten year study were almost one and a half times […]

Dirty Ice

Last night, we discovered little black spots in the ice coming out of the ice maker machine. I washed out the water hose connected to the machine and was ready to test out whether the dirty hose was the true culprit. Before reattaching it to the ice maker machine, I started scooping out the ice that had been affected. […]

Zoom out

Just like when we zoom out on Google maps, we can go from a street view of a specific address, to the neighboring streets, to the neighborhood in general, to the city, to the county, to the state, to the country, and to the continent. How can viewing a city help solve a problem going […]