• Home Improvement

    W00t! Old Driveway Gone!

    From our web camera: After what seems like weeks of calling and leaving fruitless messages, plus another week after our check cleared, the street construction people finally came back and tore out our crappy old asphalt driveway today. Wish I hadn’t been too busy at work to watch via the webcam. There may be some archive pictures available, will check later. Nice new cement driveway to follow shortly. [tags]webcam, driveway[/tags]

  • Dear Mom - Hot Off The Presses - Only in Utah...

    Salt Lake Alternative Weekly Survives Bomb Scare In Bar

    Now this is journalistic excellence: staff members of the local alternative weekly paper in Salt Lake reports the big story, after decamping to the nearest bar to wait out the boring part of being evacuated because of a bomb scare at the bank building across the street. Not only is it insightful and edgy, but traditional and slightly boozy at the same time. Mom would have gotten the biggest laugh out of this, because in her younger days she knew a lot of boozy old journalists who would have covered the story from the nearest bar, too. CW Blog: Irregular…