Writer, Dabbler In Things
Reay 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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 dayThis is a big one. I managed to pull off a few years of doing something creative every day, before I totally dropped … Read more
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 of each day to post something, which could otherwise have been used for other things including reading), and with our pretty slammed schedule road-tripping out … Read more
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 I have the chance to capture it — but I often need to do a bit of tweaking before I’m happy with how the final … Read more
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 we do a lot more together. And that’s sincerely great. But… It also makes for a couple of months of busyness above and beyond … Read more
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 productive with my time. That may not seem unusual on the surface of it, Ok, so you’re someone who likes getting stuff done … Read more