OTHER COOL THINGS is the blog page where I go off topic. In other words, this is a page where I ramble about a wide variety of subjects which have nothing to do with the Cross House restoration or Emporia.
OTHER COOL THINGS is where I might suggest a great new restaurant. Or a movie I enjoyed, or book. Or a favored blog.
OTHER COOL THINGS may — fasten your seat belt — open discussions about dangerous subjects such politics or religion.
OTHER COOL THINGS will, in short, be a page where I ramble about anything which captures my special attention. Like, perhaps, a nice moment I had with my favorite cat Gilda.
I love comments, so please do not hesitate to toss your two cents in, even if you disagree with me.
My blog posts are below. Enjoy!
Gilda. My favorite ever cat.
White Tootsie
In 2018 I posted about how I had become, a number of years previously, a Crazy Cat Person when an astonishing 22 kittens came into my life kinda all at once. In 2024, I posted this: I RELINQUISH MY CRAZY CAT PERSON CROWN. This post detailed how, one by one, my 22 count had been…
Continue ReadingRenovating RestoringRoss
If you go here you may note a change to this blog thingy. I replaced RESTORING YACHTS with RESTORING THE TIN HOUSE. The former never got any attention while the latter seemed to warrant its own category.
Continue ReadingTHE ROSS: The 2025 Year End Report
What a doozy of a year. For two overarching reasons: Trump 2.0 Putting the Cross Properties on hiatus for a year. The Cross Properties wholly took over my life in March, 2014, and then dominated my life ever since. I cannot express enough how intense the word domination is in this respect. Then…in August…the domination…
Continue ReadingTIME TRAVEL. My Fourth Apartment
I have done a series on my various apartments when I was a wee thing. These generated a lot of comments so, after much delay and ado, I present…drum roll, please…another installment! A TIMELINE February, 1975: I turn 18. Fall, 1975: I moved out of the family home and into my first apartment. Early…
Continue ReadingToday Is A Very Sad Day
Scroll down… History has repeated. I am angry.
Continue ReadingWords Matter
This is disturbing: And millions of people voted for this. My anger is off the scale.
Continue ReadingANOTHER Very Sad Day
Yesterday, Alex Pretti was murdered by his government. My rage is incandescent. The Washington Post reports: Federal agents who were wrestling a man to the ground in Minneapolis early Saturday secured a handgun he was carrying moments before shooting him multiple times, according to a Washington Post analysis of videos that captured the incident from several angles. As…
Continue ReadingThe Other House UPDATE
So, I previously introduced y’all to My Other House, in Strong City. It was in the middle of a major renovation when I purchased the Cross Properties in 2014. And all work stopped on Strong. I mean, tools were put down and gathered dust for years and years. To insulate myself from the near-daily horrors…
Continue ReadingThe Other House: 4
So, y’all know I have taken a year hiatus from the Cross properties to get my other houses in order and ready for sale. I live in the Strong City house, which I have detailed previously. It was pristine in 2013 but then after purchasing the Cross properties I ignored the house for 12 years….
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