This year is already flying by so fast that I just today realized how close my birthday is. I’ll be forty-three in just a few weeks. Naturally, I’ve been thinking a lot about my forties. I’ve noticed that each decade of my life seems to have an over arcing theme. My twenties were about learning […]
Let me start by saying that I LOVE Google+. It is so much better than Facebook, in so many ways. Less clutter, more control over who sees your posts, more control over what kind of posts you want to see, no stupid fucking algorithm deciding anything for you, no ads, WAY better group functionality, better […]
I subscribe to several block lists on Twitter, as part of my efforts to avoid drama. One of the lists I subscribed to turned out to be much too aggressive, and I suspect that I’m blocking a bunch of people that I probably don’t really want to be blocking. There are about 9000 people on […]
In my pondering about what to do with this web space, I’ve decided to scale back on the scope of my blog. Rather than just being a general, personal, life blog, I’m going to start crafting it toward my hobbies, gaming, and techie stuff. So I’ve done considerable weeding of previous posts, and changed up […]
We took a two week vacation, the first five days of which were spent finishing up the teardrop. We stayed close to home for the maiden voyage, going an hour south to Lake Como. We ended up staying at the Rock Creek Horse Camp, which is about a ten minute walk from the lake. From […]
In my early 20’s, I had a friend named Jodi that more or less lived with me. She lived in this little cabin way out of town, with no electricity and no phone, but would often work so late, and have to be back to work so early the next day, that it made no […]
It’s been a hectic couple of weeks for me. I’m rather thankful for it though, because it’s keeping me distracted from the relentless onslaught of fuckery coming from our government. Not gonna go there though. Our vacation starts soon. Just for shits and giggles, I set up a twitter bot that tweets a daily countdown […]
Not since my mid-twenties have I had a close-knit circle of friends that I regularly spend time with. At that time, it was friends I’d made during college. Royce, Travis, Kendra, Cindy (whom I was married to for a tick), Jackie, and Jody. Before that, it was friends from high school. Donald, Lester, Dan, Jim, […]
…because this particular bit has been bouncing around inside my head for a few days, and needed to get out. I am not a lawyer. So take these opinions for what they’re worth. Article II, section 2 of the US constitution states that the President ”…shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses […]
This weekend is a big deal for my family. We have a family get together every year, at the same lake, all renting the same cabins that we have for decades. I haven’t missed one of these since 1986. My grandmother has been going since 1947. So again, it’s a big deal. I always come […]
