Happy belated New Year to those who celebrate! 2025 proved to be a wonky one for me technologically-speaking. Here’s what I wound up dealing with as far as its challenges and changes went: New email serviceI started 2025 by switching to a new email service when I clashed hard with comments of the CEO of…
I came across fewer new songs this year than I often do, but I’ll squarely attribute that to trying to get through 50 books this year, and that often taking the form of audio books occupying my listening time. As always, these aren’t necessarily songs released this year, but just songs I heard for the…
Ah yes, the unexpected high of actually getting through (over!) 50 books this year! Quite an unexpected range of material to choose from for this list. In no particular order other than approximate chronological order they were read in, here are my top ten books I read this year: Clockwork Boys: Clocktaur War Book One…
Well, well, well… I wonder what life is like for people who didn’t read fifty books this year. Hmm?What’s that?Oh yeah, I’ve done that. That, and more.Before December even started, no less. Mind you, slam-dunking a stack in November went a long way toward wrapping up my self-imposed challenge — see the bottom of this…
As of this writing, I have five active email addresses. That I can recall. There are quite possibly more I’m not remembering at the moment.That’s a lot. It’s entirely too many.The thing is, I didn’t mean for that to happen, the list just kind of naturally grew as things changed and came up.Now I’m trying…
It was a month of loading myself up with books — physical, ebooks and audiobooks — but ending up not getting to many of them for myriad reasons (although, okay, a lot of it was falling for a new comedy podcast). Here’s how it shook out: Read Things From the Flood – Simon Stålenhag Small…
Not quite keeping up with the pace I was hoping for, but perhaps that shouldn’t be too surprising, given a wife going back to teaching and a teen going back to school, so we’re all getting used to the new norm for the next nine months. While September does offer a chance at refocusing, it…
I’m testing out a new, very well reviewed email service. The first thing I wanted to do when I signed up for it was to see if people could actually see it, since with my current (problematic) email service, I’d seem to initially end up going into peoples’ spam folders more often than not. So…
Back in February, I found I couldn’t continue using my (then) current email service (let’s call it Service 1), because while it was excellent as far as performance, reliability, tech support, and the slick UI (user interface) went, the head of the Swiss-based company praised… well, look, I don’t want to get political… but let’s…
A few months back, I read that microplastics have been found to be in chewing gum. And not just the mass produced stuff, where one could reasonably expect that producers may cut corners on quality of ingredients to keep cranking out their offerings, but microplastics were found even in the likes of more natural brands…