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Dr. Dvorak

Dr. Jim Dvorak is Vice President Academic and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

This resonates with me...

My Google photos account is filling up, so I have been painstakingly cleaning it out. Ran across this gem of a quotation.UPDATE: Here's another important message:

Fresh sourdough artisan bread

The lovely CJD has been at it again, baking fresh sourdough bread for the week. Yum!

Hopefully a productive week

Hopefully, this week will be a fairly productive one. It's Family Day here in Ontario (Feb. 19, 2024), so the office is closed today, and this week is Reading Week at MDC, so students are away doing their best to get caught up (or, to be fair, ahe...

Making a gift (part 1)

It was too cold outside today to work on my car, so I got started making a gift. Click here for part 2 Click here for part 3 (final part)

Plastic lid organizer

When one gets tired of plastic lid chaos, one makes a simple lid organizer. Had to do a little rearranging, but this fits into the cabinet.

Stripped out!

The screws were loose on one of our kitchen cabinet doors. Turns out they were stripped out! How did I repair them? With toothpicks, of course!

Cerakote Headlight Restoration Kit

The headlights on Sydney's car were super oxidized, yellowed, and opaque looking. She had been complaining about not having bright enough headlights when it's dark (which, here in Ontario, is most of the time in the winter). She has a 2012 Honda C...

A Good Saturday

Today (Feb 3, 2024) was a good day. I finished piece of furniture I made for Sydney's turntable and vinyl records. Don't get too excited. It's made of plywood--Red Oak plywood, but plywood nonetheless. That said, it turned out pretty good. Today I...

Don't waste the black walnut!

I had a little scrap piece of black walnut (which came from the Dvorak farm in Iowa, if you recall) left over from the decorative shelf I made for the lovely CJD, and I didn't want it to go to waste. So, I made this useful little thing...

This guy is hilarious

Thanks to my sister for introducing me to his content.