After all the work I put into a popup card, why send the card with a smudge on it. What better way to cover up smudges on my popup cards than covering them with…

On the very bottom of my popup cards I now cut off a long sliver in the shape of a triangle, with altitude of a quarter-inch and base of 11 inches. Why, you ask? So that my popup card recipient has the option of…

So I am fixated on my popup cards. So I spend most of my retired free time (1) locating sharp, colorful Google Images of background pictures and characters that turn me on, (2) cutting out the characters, (3) hot gluing the characters onto the backgrounds, (4) completing the cards with covers, and (5)…

Yes, most of us have graduated from snail mail to email. But when it comes to sending birthday and anniversary greetings, I may be going backwards. My popup card hobby has taken off to the point where I can now produce…

My new toy arrived today. It's going to make my popup card plastic attachment strips clear and strong. It's a…

Two weeks ago I wrote about cable ties (aka zip ties) in a “Duh” essay. I pointed out that, duh, I never before used those simply wonderful devices. Today I want to expound on my excitement with these wondrous slivers of plastic.

Yes, three printers – that’s how many I bought this year. That’ is three of the same model – the Canon MX922. Why would I do that? Here is why. This new model from Canon is unlike previous Canon printers. There is no need for me to “cap off” the cartridge once I have re-filled it with ink. This is because I now inject the ink into the sponge part of the cartridge, not into…

To think, all these years, walking around with my shoulders forward, and my head even more forward. I noticed it for the first time last month in the pictures and videos we took at the beach. Something was wrong with my posture, but I could not put my finger on it. Last week, I discovered that…

My neck and shoulder pain began two months ago when I rested my neck on hard metal chairs at the airport for several hours. That pain lasted two weeks. Just five days ago, I was in the pool working out with weights, and I probably overdid it. This more recent pain starts during the day between 11 and 2, and it continues toward the evening.

Here we are again – another round of Duhs, thanks to Siri, who adds my thoughts to my iPhone’s “Duhs Note” as I think of them.