The province-owned liquor store I work in has planned playlists that they swap out every “period”, the segments of the year when featured products and sales change. Most playlists are pretty hit and miss, to my tastes. But this one? Oh, man, is it ever hitting. The current playlist is almost entirely classic rock and…
I’m honestly not sure why naps aren’t more popular. They shake off the tiredness and recharge the batteries if you maybe had a bad night, or if you worked particularly hard, or if you’ve been kept very busy lately, or maybe all of the above (he says, perhaps being somewhat self-referential)… It seems like it’s…
J and I have, completely unplanned, caught some documentary shows about food and food processing recently, and bread was among the topics. Perhaps due to that, or perhaps due to our gradually changing up such things every so often anyway, we also recently changed what bread we eat. The recent type gets moldy faster, which…
One of the many excellent ideas and encouragements that Amie McNee suggests in her fantastic book is to get comfortable with the idea that a creative work that’s 80% as good as you’d like it to be is good enough. Beyond that threshold, she says, you’re just making small changes, ones that probably aren’t worth…
Other than a brief dalliance with coffee in high school, I’ve been a tea drinker for the vast bulk of my life. I like the smell of coffee, and I like the taste of it as complementary to the likes of, say, tiramisu. But when it comes to something to have with breakfast or something…
It seems that some high schoolers these days are starting to develop an affinity for owning physical entertainment items instead of relying exclusively on streaming, which for me was an unexpected turn. My 14-year old started to develop a particular interest in VHS tapes thanks to a burgeoning enjoyment of analog horror, which is a…
I never got the hang of skateboarding. I had one for some years and tried, for a while, to pick up at least the basics of it — Okay, so I stand here, and I know I push with this other foot-type rudimentary stuff — but it didn’t take. And at least early on with…
Our finally (FINALLY) clearing out my mother’s storage lockers has proven to be a bit contagious and has inspired us to also start clearing away some un-dealt-with boxes and bins in our own house. And there’s plenty. We did a massive scouring of our belongings, but mostly old paperwork and the like, when we had…
“Hey, man.” Hmm? Oh, hey, Central Conceit. “That’s not my name, you know.” Oh. What is it? “Don’t muddy the issue. We’re half way through the month. Ish. And so half way through your first Blaugust. How’s it going?” Okay, I think. I’m still posting daily, and generally don’t have to noodle on topics as…
I’m feeling unusually stressed today. It’s no one thing, it’s a collection of smaller things that happen to have heaped onto this one day. But man, those can add up, can’t they? The unfortunate thing about that particular kind of stress, the nickel and dime kind, is that there’s not one big, sweeping thing that…