Writer, Dabbler In Things
Reay I’ve been remiss in updating my website the last several weeks. It’s largely because this happened on April 20th… After years of discussing getting a pet — we had a betta fish, but let’s face it, fish only barely qualify as pets — and after weeks of looking intently for either a cat or a … Read more
Hey, you know how Facebook (now called Meta) makes a fourtune from selling oceans of highly detailed, extremely personal data about each of its users to advertisers? … and how that had for some time included collecting data from its unsuspecting users even when they weren’t using Facebook at the time, reporting on what else … Read more
I’m the first to admit I’m a slow reader. Painfully slow, sometimes. Slow enough that I’ve lost count of how many What I Read This Month posts have been effectively empty. ‘Working on the same thing I was last month’, is how those generally go.And here we are again. Lately I’ve been reading The Three … Read more
I struggled with making myself work on this book idea more than any other idea in recent memory. I had the core idea for a while, and started filling it out as time (and other projects) allowed, and some time back finally felt like it maybe might kinda be ready to work on.I had the … Read more
It’s been… let’s call it an interesting few weeks. Back in mid-February, we were visiting friends in Florida. The day after we arrived, I woke up to a notification on my phone that a lot — a lot — of money had been charged to my credit card by my webhost (the service that you … Read more
You know those occasions when you look at a new block of time — a day off of work, a week away from school, the new month of a new year — and just have a feeling that it’s going to be really productive? You’re gonna get so much done in that time! Yes.Well.You know … Read more
I recently mentioned I was going to try to get into some intermittent fasting. Yeah… well… no. Or at least, what I have managed to do hasn’t gone well. Best laid plans, and all that. Not to point to just exterior issues to distract from what may be some personal shortcomings, but the genuine fact … Read more
A couple of weeks back, at least one of my passwords was hacked. Luckily, I was saved by 2FA. What does that mean? Ok, let me back up. For some time now, I’ve used long, nonsense passwords for my accounts on websites. I’ve recently way upped my game in this respect by starting to use … Read more
I didn’t get as much read as I wanted to this year. But arguably I never do.In no particular order, here are my top picks for what I read over the last twelve months. NoirChristopher Moore A comedic noir setting involving government agents, an alien crash landing, and a knockout dame named Stilton (like the … Read more
Not as busy a year, music-listening-wise, as I’m used to. But I still added 53 songs to various playlists. As per usual, my top picks from that list aren’t necessarily newly released in 2023, but rather — aside from old songs I like but hadn’t added before and have finally included — are songs that … Read more