Small town life and observations in the mid-west.
5 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
We are working on a new house somewhere in west Illinois. For the last month or so we have been doing the rough-in wiring: putting in receptacle boxes, fan boxes, switch boxes, etc. This house is getting a 400 Amp service so yesterday I hung two 200...
1 Dec 2019 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
The wife and I like to dine at out-of-the-way places on occasion. Today we decided to go to the Opera House Bistro in Red Bud, Illinois, USA. I guess that the restaurant is not out-of-the-way since it's on the main square in a town of 3,000. It is ri...
17 Nov 2019 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
I took this a couple of years ago. I found it while going through my phone.
16 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
I am grateful for a lot of things but that's not what I want to talk about. There are things in my life for which I have not been grateful enough. I work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week like most people. There are many days that I leave before the sun...
16 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
I often am going to work as the sun is rising. Most times, however, I am not in a place where I can take a picture. In this instance, I was sitting at an intersection waiting on traffic somewhere in Illinois.
29 Oct 2019 2 minute read 10 comments uthus2000
Disclaimer: If you disapprove of hunting or anything related to that, read no further. Deer season started here about three weeks ago. In case you're wondering, using your van is not an acceptable way to hunt. I don't hunt around here but I've got fr...
27 Oct 2019 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
Have you ever shot a 10" (25.4 cm) target at 500 yards (457.2 m)? Me either. Last week, the wife and I took a 12 hour drive to meet some friends for the weekend. I know that 12 hours for a weekend sounds a bit much, but we think it was well worth it...
15 Oct 2019 1 minute read 8 comments uthus2000
At about 6:15 this morning on the way to work, I killed my first deer for the season. I don't particularly like the way that I did it. It was still dark even though there was a full moon. I was driving along about 60 mph or so when I saw someone comi...
23 Sep 2019 2 minute read 11 comments uthus2000
There is a guy for whom I do occasional side work. Our company had done work in his house a little more than a year ago. He'd asked one of our journeymen to do some work for him but the journeyman handed it over to me. The guy for whom I do work - I'...
19 Sep 2019 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson, set in two different time periods. One group of characters are World War II-era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the Government Code and Cypher Sch...
