Desiccant.
I really enjoy the way that word sounds. It’s like a discount version of decadent, except that it hasn’t been soiled by rampant overuse in chocolate commercials. I was curious as to its etymology which, as you’ll see above, isn’t nearly as exciting as I’d hoped. I had never even heard of the word until a reader, known only to me as “BoscoBob”, brought it up in an email.
It’s been long enough.
I took my sweet time getting around to actually doing it, and then almost another month on top of that to start writing this post about it, but we’re here now. And that’s what really matters, right?
So anyway, you might remember “The Hole” from that time that birds always insisted on pecking at
it, or that other time that I
MacGyver’d a drainage solution to avoid waking up in a truck-shaped rainwater
swimming pool. Looking back, I had every intention of paying another human
being money to fix this particular problem. That all changed once I received an
email from Nancy (over at PK Safety
), who, like
BoscoBob before her, knows way more about fixing my problems than I do.
I gave my spiel about such lightweight topics as money, financial planning, and how I plan to live the rest of my ephemeral human life. Naturally people had some questions and thoughts of their own to contribute, and I’m more than happy to bring those into the mix.
Any reason you’re using an ETF instead of a mutual fund? I don’t see the soundness in the incurring fees on a brokerage account.
It’s been two months since I opened my large mouth a little too widely, and things have calmed down considerably. I’ve only received one or two interview requests in the past month (which I’ve dutifully ignored), and website views have tapered off to a fairly consistent 500 truck-enthusiasts a day. I’ve been spending my weekends hammering away on a new home improvement project, and enjoying bike rides to events in the area.
On the last episode of
From Inside the Box, we found our pickup truck protagonist in the throes of a
struggle for survival: not of flesh, but of his very livelihood. Where will he
go? What will he do? Will he ever understand why kids love the taste of
Cinnamon Toast Crunch™? Find out on this episode eventually…maybe.
Just kidding. I don’t plan to talk about any of those things today. Instead, we’re going to talk about poor decisions, getting in the holiday spirit, and how any of that relates to truck stuff. Oh, and apologies for my silence and general tardiness with getting new posts out, rest assured that there are more in the pipeline (tech, home improvement, and philosophy, oh my!). But anyway, let’s see what the past two (fairly truckless) weeks have been like.
