I would love the opportunity to buy stock in McMaster Carr. They are so consistently excellent

My steel supplier is going out of business. This is going to be very annoying I bet, considering my minor and occasional needs that few want to deal with

If slate guys came and did a roof repair without being prompted can I actually count that against today's to-do list?

It's Saturday night so I'm performing the traditional Saturday night activity of going to meet with Masons Afterwards a meeting for a rousing discussion of phase 2 environmental issues. Alcohol will be required for that one I am basically non-stop exciting

a very niche tweet: 50/50 Chartreuse and Angostura is an excellent before dinner cocktail

A problem with AI, thinking about it is that much like every other technological advance it makes the dumb and the lazy less likely to be employed. Which doesn't make the dumb and the lazy go away it just creates a permanent cranky underclass.

The heavy equipment key regime is pretty silly but I grant it makes my life easier when I screw up key logistics

Being handy saves a lot of money I just had two sprinkler heads go out. It'll cost $20 or so to replace them but getting in a sprinkler company to do so would have been tough for under $500.

The sexy passive business of residential real estate: It's 7:00 p.m. on a Friday night and I'm talking drains with a plumber.

Because I saw a big excavator on my feed yesterday: 20 years old not beautiful but was paid off 16 years ago and fits in an urban townhouse backyard.

Tesla full self-driving is so amazingly good but it does have a minor problem anticipating human stupidity On certain roads I know the other drivers are going to behave like complete asshats but there's no way to let the Tesla know that sadly

Parking prices in the North End of Boston seems to be way down in inflation-adjusted terms, which is interesting

I'd rather not be up on the roof but the views are pretty. I will be deleting the stupid condensate pump so I hopefully won't be seeing this view for a long time

Last day on the Chesapeake this year I think. Finally not humid

Someone just brought this over in London. It's delicious

Mohammed el Erian predicting a significant rise in interest rates is quite scary

The sexy world of real estate, waiting in line to get out of the industrial recycling center version. $100 a load of dirt. I pay them, of course. Has to be a great business.

I use Claude to help me engineer this solar array and between my tendency to over-engineer and Claude's tendency to over-engineer, this thing is ridiculous and needs to be de-engineered I see how BMW is how it is

Humidity is set to Florida out here. I have spent my day thinking about how to add air conditioning to heavy equipment that I only use a couple of times a year, which is ridiculous but this weather is inspirational.