Top 10 songs of 2025
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 taki...
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Top 10 books of 2025
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 pa...
What I read this month
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. ...
What’s in a name? A lot, actually.
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 ...
What I read this month
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,...
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...
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...