Random Ren

Went a little stir-crazy being cooped up inside with the kids, so I decided we should get some exercise and make a quarantine workout video. It’s mostly for laughs (I have a full set of bumper plates downstairs), though some of these exercises did make me pretty sore for a...

I have been making my own foam soap for years. Now that we are in the midst of a pandemic, everyone should be washing their hands regularly, but with cleaning supplies being limited, I thought it time make a short video showing how to take a little bit of dish...

This is a re-post of something I wrote in 2014 when I was a stay at home dad with my first son. “From an engineering perspective, infants are poorly designed machines. They have a loud error-fault alarm that’s constantly going off and highly irritating to the operator and coworkers. They...

So what do you do when you have record rainfall, and you are a stay at home dad with two active kids? Take them kayaking of course… in the field near your apartment. The rain overwhelmed the drainage system in our apartment complex, so the field became a shallow pond....

My dog died recently after being with me for over twelve years. He died because I had him killed. He was not actively dying of any acute condition, his heart was in good shape, he was not terribly overweight, he was not losing his mental faculties, his olfactory sense was...