To get the garbage out of New York City each day takes 450 tractor-trailer rigs which use a total of about 33,700 gallons of diesel fuel on their round trip to Pennsylvania. For every barrel of waste we put on the curb, there are 71 barrels of waste generated...

I got up really early this morning so I could get lots of my backed-up work done. Good theory. Then I found a Web site with a lot of very funny stickers and buttons and such, and my productivity rating fell to zero. They claim a million stickers, but...

That was some holiday. I got sick two days before Christmas, and am just now getting back to normal. Cathy says she’s never seen me so sick – I can usually ward stuff off pretty good or at the worst have a couple of down days. We had intended...

Merry Christmas to all of you from Cathy and I – to the friends we see often, the friends we haven’t seen in a while, and the friends we haven’t met yet. May you all experience the peace and love that we’ve been blessed with....

My normal mail pickup is just a short walk to the tiny historic post office in Carcross. For several years now, though, I’ve also had a PO box in Skagway, Alaska. The justification for driving 67 miles one-way to pick up some of my mail is easy – I...

I suppose commuting is one of those things that the average person in North America just has to tolerate in order to make a decent living. For a while yet, driving beween Carcross and Whitehorse is part of my life for that reason – Whitehorse is where an important...

Apparently that’s what some weather media Outside are saying. In Whitehorse it was only -40°C this morning, which is bloody cold for November, but in January is no big deal. There was a term on the Environment Canada site this morning that I don’t recall seeing before, though –...