It’s no secret among family and friends that my income has been… let’s call it “tight” for a while. I’m ready, willing and able to do what I need to to pay bills and get food on the table. But I’m torn among thoughts of finding other work even if it’s for less hourly money…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…