The Quhl Blog

I am the consummate winter hater and if I was rich would go to South America or Australia for the Winters but circumstances dictate where we live.  Snow and brown lifeless trees is so damn depressing.

As I get older the Summers get shorter and Winters get longer and sometimes I wish the global warming scam were indeed true. The mood I am in because of all that white crap out there it might be QUHL to trip the triggers of the Loony Greenie nut cases with some climatological facts which they choose to ignore.  Let me think on it - might add some joy to this horrid weather.

BTW, I feel justified in hating snow and cold.  While I have a fondness for Colorado as a nice place to visit in my mind it is a crappy place to live.  After near 18 years living at around 9500 feet and commuting to the Denver Federal Center I can truly say that I have seen enough snow for 5 lifetimes.

The fact that my beloved Broncos beat good teams and roll ofer to bad teams doesn’t help my general mood either.

Think I will bop over to Tech Crud as I am quite sure there will be something to help my mood there.

I don’t want to make this place political as there are plenty of venues for that.  I don’t consider this to be political except we get what we vote for and right now the politicians are demonstrating that they don’t have an ounce of brains between the whole bunch. There is more than enough idiocy being displayed from all sides.

Ok, I am getting to that age where my doctor looks like a damn kid and I can remember some times when the American economy was much worse than now.  I have seen 12% unemployment and 20% prime interest rates.  I have seen horrid inflation and recall a little thing called the misery index.  So what does all that have to do with anything.  Here goes.

We are supposed to have a free market economy in the US.  A free and minimally regulated market historically produces the best and lowest price goods and services for the most people.  From time to time markets must adjust (which can be painful) and this adjustment is a good thing for the continuation of economic growth.  The problem is that the damn politicians can’t let things be.

The current situation is not a problem with the economy in general but a problem with the credit markets.  Hell, I saw this coming as anyone with half a brain should have.  The government kept pushing the mortgage markets to loan money to anyone with a heart beat no matter whether they were qualified or not.  What with the 125%, no money down and stupid low ‘teaser rate’ ARM’s.

The time has come for the markets to adjust and clean out the ashes but the politicians won’t let it happen.  The longer they delay things the worse it will be when the adjustment happens and it will no matter how much tax payer money is poured down the rat hole.

My suggestion is tighten your belts, pay down your credit, keep investing in your 401k etc. and keep driving your car for a few more years.  It will pass.

You can rest assured that I am no fan of Microsoft but I like to follow slightly different paths and am finding myself using Live.com more and more.  If I am looking for new sites and fresh information I often go there first. I am not the slightest interested in the non-search stuff Gates is touting but like what they are doing with the search engine.

I fully realize that big G rules but their search results often ’suck wind’ big time and IMHO opinion they should be spending resources on cleaning up their database instead of scanning books and trying to work against small time web developers.

As a small time site builder I hand submit new sites at http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx and it is not unusual to get niche sites well listed in a week or so.  And yes they do receive referrals.

even when you get into those SSI years. Life has come near full circle and I am, more or less back where I began.  A new house in the small town where I grew up. My wife of 36 years left here for Colorado in 1974 and returned to Missouri in 1988.  Built a home ON 38 beautiful acres about half way between Kansas City and St Joseph thinking we would spend the rest of out lives there. Yeah right.

The old house is pictured above.  A number of years ago we decided to build again and it has been a long difficult process.  The house is located on 15 acres in a small Morthwest Missouri farming community called Stanberry.  We are just barely moved in with lots of work still to be done.  For those who may be interested picture sets of the building process can be seen here.

And yes it is a big change.  Built to be energy efficient and using a lot of enviromentally friendly materials.

Later gators…

Believe it or not there is a story to be told here.  There used to be a modernism shop locally called So Kuhl and I always thought that was an interesting name.  Time passes and it came to pass that this most humble one gets involved with the internet, domains and such.  Quite naturally names like cool and kuhl have long been registered.   It just happens that I am fond of the letter Q and when I looked and found Qool.com was registered a feeling of sadness invaded my slightly warped brain but bagan feeling better when I found Quhl.com was available.  After some thought I deciding that while a bit of a streatch it might be a COOL QUHL name.  Thus the tag line ‘raising cool to the power of Q’ was born.

It just kinda sat there with no really good ideas for use for a long time.  I tried a couple things which never really seemed quite right until my friend over at the P6 Blog suggested a blog.

Every time I have even thought about trying to do a blog there would be a bad attack of ‘bloggers block’ and never get the first post made. Who knows where this may or may not go but  my current thoughts are along the lines of:

It will be any ones guess what may or may not be found here at any given time.  There will be no posting schedule. I might post an article about something which I find interesting,  pictures of architecture or maybe a flower in summer.  I have strong opinions about many things and may ruffle feathers from time to time.

The adventure begins… or will it flop? Only time will tell.