And this is just my most recent entry, this blog actually has close to 70 scattershot pieces of varying length, quality, and interest if I look back. There’s a gap for a couple of years when I put it on the back burner for a bunch of reasons. (They’re not secret reasons, just ones I probably won’t post here.)

I’ll probably mention it sporadically on Facebook too…

Like this year, I replaced my old pellet stove because I figured it would simplify things. The old one would stop in the middle of the night, and it would make terrible screeching noises that I’d have to get up and WD40. The new one’s basically great so far, a couple of hiccups, but simplifying your life by replacing an old fussy machine with a new fussy machine isn’t the farthest you could take it. I mean, I could remove everything from my bedroom, that would be simplest, but how about a woodstove, for example? That’s a couple notches simpler without giving up heat. I got rid of my old Ford because it was starting to have little issues, nothing major, but just older car stuff. I thought that by getting a new pickup from Dodge, we’d have a second vehicle that would be handy and since it was new, it wouldn’t have older car issues. To really simplify would be to totally eliminate the second vehicle. And, with the hindsight of knowing how terrible the Dodge has been, it would be simpler to keep a decent older car running than deal with constant warranty issues on a new car. So I’m going to keep working on watching my motivations…