A couple of decades back I heard about someone’s suggestion for the “2-minute rule”. I used it for a while and then forgot about it. But given all the stuff we need to do around the house these days, I’m bringing it back. It’s super simple: Any task you’re presented with that will take you…
“Hey, man, how’s it going?” Hmm? Who’s this? “This is the central conceit of this bit. Go with it.” Um… okay? “Listen, it’s the end of the first week of your first try at Blaugust, and I just wanted to just check in and see how you’re doing with it.” Good, I think. I’m posting…
I’ve long maintained that I listen to a pretty wide variety of music. Classic rock was probably the first thing I really tweaked to — one of my earliest memories is of falling asleep on my mother’s lap at a casual house party my parents and I were attending, with the smell of pot in…
When I was preparing for this first swim into the waters of Blaugust, I was jotting down ideas for potential fodder for blog entries. It was just a simple checklist that I’d tick off as/if I used them. It struck me, though, that a number of them were negative in nature. Me pointing out bad…
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 admitted to long-term care with dementia ages ago and still is today. The cleaning out of these storage units has taken an embarrassingly long time to…
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 honeymoon, which we had on Maui. It’s a pretty spectacular island, and we made the most of our week-ish there by…
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’s doing on walks and his behaviour as a whole — still far from perfect, mind you — which has been heartening. Validation from your peers evidently still feels…
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 course cannot reveal, lest this letter fall into enemy hands rather than the tender care of yours. It has been a particularly gruesome stretch since…
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 on the cusp of finishing a couple of other books I couldn’t quite squeak in under the wire. But with the 1st of the month arriving in a bit over…
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 by, I figured a few proverbial lights along the path would help keep me moving forward. In no particular order: And I think that’s about it. I’ve…