RustedRobot

Having just moved into a new house, I promise you I will try my utmost to not write every day about the trials, tribulations and successes of home ownership. Today, however, I will write about that very subject. I’ll start by delivering a message to whomever redecorated all of our doorways and window trim back [...]

Okay, new comments section up and running! It’s a new provider, so all the old comments are gone. Not like y’all were commenting your asses off anyway. What does a guy have to do to get some comments rolling around here. Ah yes – get some people to read the site. I’ll have to work [...]

The comments field has been temporarily disabled until I can find a provider that does not have their head up their asses. Yeah. OK. Nice.
Song now playing: Led Zeppelin – “Nobody’s Fault But Mine”

Well, it was a weekend of firsts, of discoveries and of re-discoveries. Won’t you join me for an edition of a very special RustedRobot?
Firsts – I used my first power tool on Saturday – an electric sander for two bedrooms we’re re-doing. It totally kicked ass. I know, it’s somewhat ridiculous that I am 32 [...]

I don’t have much of anything to report today, other than the fact that the new Fountains Of Wayne album is a total gas! Really one of the best records I’ve heard this year.
Why does this story make me laugh?
Song now playing: REM – “Driver 8″

I was driving my car the other day, through a bunch of twisting, wooded back roads in central Massachusetts – driving past all kinds of new, cookie-cutter housing developments and I realized that I consider these to be the bane of our peaceful existence. Someday we’ll look back on these character-less, souless, identical sets of [...]

My new commute is 12.1 miles each way. Takes about 22 minutes. I’m now located about 1.5 miles from one of the best homemade ice cream stands in the state, which is dangerously delicious. One mile exactly to the gym. 21 miles to Somerville’s Davis Square, where we now “used” to live. Our first phone [...]