Living in the desert
good
Free magnetic dirt like you find in the Wooly Willy toy. (Look for black dirt in dry gullies.)
bad
Cleaning up 7 bags worth of tumbleweeds in your front yard
Nathan Alter lives in Albuquerque with his wife and kids. He currently develops in C#/.NET, but is learning all the time and has enjoyed computers since programming in Basic on an Atari 400 as a teenager. He started blogging in 1999.
Free magnetic dirt like you find in the Wooly Willy toy. (Look for black dirt in dry gullies.)
Cleaning up 7 bags worth of tumbleweeds in your front yard