Author: Reay
Death cleaning: Just do it.
We’re on the way to visit one of my aunts while we continue to clear out the remaining storage locker that has contained my mother’s belongings since she was ad...
God, I miss Maui
J and I got married in June 18 years ago. With it being shortly before the end of her teaching school that year, we had to wait for a bit to get to our honeymoo...
New (doggo) parenthood, and all it comes with
We got Radar last April, and he’s been settling in nicely. Local friends and neighbours who have dogs have been commenting lately on how much better he...
Blaugust: Let’s do this
My dearest Josephine, I write to you as we briefly break amid the surviving men of our corps pushing on toward a more advantageous location. Where that is, I of...
What I read this month
Due to an unexpected, and deepening, dive into some very time-consuming but long-overdue manual labour this month, I got precious little reading completed. I am...
My rules for Blaugust
I don’t have many self-imposed rules for Blaugust, but to help it from being a total freeform, chaotic mess that I wind up getting lost in and frustrated ...
To Blaugust or not to Blaugust
I’ve just heard about a phenomenon that’s been happening for at least a dozen years, called Blaugust. In short, it’s an annual celebration of blogs, of we...
Update on my 50 Books This Year challenge
Those of you who read my posts through to the end (and why wouldn’t you? It’s all gold, I tell you. Gold.) will recall that back in December I jotte...
Time to Linux
A definition of planned obsolescence, per a summary from Wikipedia:“In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsoles...