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The Undercover Donut Incident

The problem with a desk job is, well, the mind can wander. To influence the humble hourly employee or perhaps used as a fix for a personal addiction, people on occasion bring donuts to work. The psychological interplay with those dozen fried and frosted pastries is the source of fascination for the simple mind of the idle writer … So we hid a camera and filmed it.

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Stone-Cold Killer

It’s true, she doesn’t look that dangerous, but she’s actually a rodent assassin. Rats, mice, bunnies … hates ’em, and who doesn’t? Doesn’t like lizards, is offended by squirrels and she’ll kill geese if given the chance. She’s hardwired to be on the lookout for vermin and then to give them the business until they stop moving. Still, most of the time she’s just sleeping in my truck.

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Making A Buck

Fun Facts: American Business

Life is mostly about the pursuit of knowledge and, therefore, the collection of fun facts. All my fun facts were harvested personally … They started as a physical book purchase from Amazon, then moved to a Kindle download where I bookmarked them by hand; at the conclusion of a book they were transcribed into a Snoopy Moleskine, and finally, they appear here for your personal wonderment.
  • Daniel Boone sold deerskins called buckskins for varying amounts of English pounds and then American dollars. In America, the costs of these skins eventually were simply called a buck.
  • George Washington distilled Whiskey at Mount Vernon because he needed cash. In 1799 he distilled 11,000 gallons for a profit that would have been worth $142,000 in today’s dollars. He liked sweet wine, rum punch and whiskey.

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