Despite the title, I’m not sick while I write this. I’ve recovered. It seems I have a sensitive immune system, and recently got sick while cleaning my garage. It was a freaking mess. A disaster. Continue reading ‘Cough sneeze sniffle sniffle’
Archive for the 'green issues' Category
Alright. I’m hoping this is the last high-price-gas-related post I’ll ever write and you, loyal reader, will ever have to read (yeah right). If you’re like me, you’re fed up with news reports and articles that reiterate the same well-known thing over and over…and over.
Man In La-Z-Boy Watching Television: Honey, check this out — did you hear about this? The six o’clock news is saying gas prices are high! Have you heard ’bout that? They’ve even got a reporter at a gas station interviewing normal, everyday people about how they feel about these so-called high gas prices!
Man’s Wife In Kitchen: Dear — as you well know, I’ve just returned to our home after living under a giant igneous rock for the past two years, subsisting on a diet of rain water and pill bugs — so, no, I haven’t heard about these so-called “high” gas prices.
[Man’s Wife In Kitchen places pill bug in mouth and chews thoughtfully] Continue reading ‘25 Days Later’
I’m rather excited today … that’s because I’m leaving work early to participate in the second annual Angie’s List golf outing. Even though I’ll have to make up the hours I’m spending on the course, it’s a still a great chance to get out of the office on a weekday and do something I truly love. Continue reading ‘Gunga galunga’
My partner, Eliese, has wanted a dog for years. I did my best to dodge this request because I’ve had little experience with dogs, I think dogs are high maintenance and I’m quite accustomed to my footloose and fancy-free ways. I was hesitant to the thought of being responsible for something that would change my life so dramatically. Continue reading ‘Puppy Mama’
I’m one month into riding my bike to work and already the reviews are pouring in:
“We laughed. We cried. Two thumbs up,” say Ebert & Roeper, mistaking my commute for the Italian neorealist drama, “The Bicycle Thief.”
“Keep it short and you’ll limit the helmet hair,” says my barber.
“Um, could you bring an extra change of clothes on humid days?” say my co-workers. Continue reading ‘This is how I roll’
Spurred by the torrential rainstorms that have recently plagued Indiana and the number of responses we’ve received from Angie’s List members concerning our Green Living Issue — both positive and negative — I’ve been giving global warming some thought…
I’ve decided that, regardless of which side of the global warming camp you’re on, or if you’re camping at all, there should be no denying that something is causing the earth’s weather patterns to go absolutely haywire. Continue reading ‘A stealthy ride to greener living…’
You’d think after living in central Indiana my entire life I’d be used to our weather. But it never fails to surprise me with tornadoes, thunderstorms, destroyed power lines and overflowing basements.
As Kristy indicated, Indianapolis has recently experienced some bad weather. Last weekend, I came home to knee-high sewage that had backed up into my basement. Continue reading ‘Bad weather bothering you? Not me…’
I bought a bike last week from Angie’s List A-lister Indy Cycle Specialist. Not just any bike. A Giant Tran Send commuter bike with rack, fenders, bell and built-in compass.
“Hello, inner 8-year-old.”
I feel like that kid in A Christmas Story who longed for a “Red Ryder carbine-action, 200-shot Range Model air rifle BB gun with a compass in the stock and a thing which tells time.”
I might blow out a knee, but I can’t shoot my eye out with the Tran Send.
When I moved to Indianapolis this month to join Angie’s List, everything came together to make my dream of bike ownership come true. Continue reading ‘I won’t shoot my eye out.’
With so much talk about green living and green building, can I confess something? The only thing I’d like to be green right now is my yard. It may not be the most environment-friendly thing in the world to wish for, but I can’t help it. What can I say? I like yard work. And every year at this time I can’t help but think that maybe this will be the year that I’m able to conquer the crabgrass and bare patches that inevitably plague my landscape. Continue reading ‘The elusive perfect lawn’
When we started doing research for our green issue, I didn’t know much about building a “green” house. I figured if you turned the lights off when you left a room and turned the water off while you brushed your teeth, you were doing your part to help the environment. People who really knew what they were doing could add some solar panels to their home or replace their windows with new, low-e ones. But that was it, right?
