What I read this month
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 ba...
Author: Reay
Technology is great, when it works
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...
Another email service needed? Again?
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...
When is too little a change still worth it?
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 ...
Last day of my first Blaugust
So it’s a wrap. Looking back on the last 30 days, and in no particular order, here are my thoughts on my first crack at Blaugust: I can manage to write every da...
What I read this month
I’m pretty happy with the number of books I managed to get in this month, what with focusing on Blaugust as much as I did (typically taking an hour+ out o...
Photographs
It’s been too long since I’ve posted any photos here on my site. I keep taking them — I take them all the time, whenever a moment pops up and ...
September: The month of refocusing
My wife is a teacher and my teen is of course a student, which means that come the end of every school year, they’re suddenly around home a lot more and w...
Trying to be okay to play
I have a bit of a weird thing with playing video games, in that when I’m playing them, I often feel like I can — nay, should — be doing something more productiv...
Hunt for quality, not just name brands
When I was young, my parents held the Sony brand up as one of the best technology manufacturers in the world. Those were the TVs we got when we could, those wer...