The universe clicks
I have had my share of dreadful and or mortifying moments while on the road. Some I console myself with thought that my faux pas is someone’s amusing anecdote.
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Why?
If aliens arrived tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d ask them? Of all the planets in all the solar systems in all the galaxies in the universe, why would you choose this one? Because, you know, we’re doing poorly. We are forever…
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T minus seven days – The Big Walk
I will posting my daily thoughts and progress leading up to October 6th. This is the first entry. The big walk is coming up, and I am feeling more or less ready. One small thing I am trying to work out is…
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Cabbage, carrot, and radish slaw
As always, these things are to taste, but I think this tastes good
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Walking to feed animals in need
October Sixth 2026 — Amblin for Animals When I quit smoking and had my stoke scare, I started walking as part of my rehabilitation. At first I could only get to my alley. Then down my allaey and around a quarter of…
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Friday Pick Six – Some Kind of Monster Themed Mash Situation
I was late posting Kyle’s pass by and ropping of a Friday Pick Six. So here it is late on Saturday. 1 – Ghost, by Mystery Skulls Kicking off strong! Love me some Mystery Skulls 2 – Witches, by Good Kid Yes,…
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Friday Pick Six – It’s the Re-re-remix
It’s a Friday visit From Kyle, spinning the pick six this Friday
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The fourth isn’t always about independence
So I will not be celebrating independence this year. There are too many of us for whom independence has been ripped away. What I will do is hold onto the belief that there are still many people out there who are willing…
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Try living with it
A self-flagellation symphony of horrors, anxieties, and miscues from deep in my consciousness.
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It gets better
Ultimately, the world spins on, we with it, baggage and all. Remember when you are on the concourse of life, next flight delayed, it gets better.
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Does anybody really?
The brain works in funny ways and we all short circuit our way through.
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Friday Pick Six — Getting “Over” It
From Kyle D. White, who sends these every Friday, but has a standing invitation to become a poster here. So, a Friday pick six on a Sunday. 1) Over My Head, by The Fray Unexpectedly one of the better concerts I’ve been…
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Sometimes you need a gunslinger
The town saved, I would pack up my tools and make the next flight out of town, onto the next data villain menacing another town.
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Always Changing
There was no nuance to be had even back then. No explaining the difference between weather and climate.
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Hopefully Here.
I was on a downhill path nine years ago. Strung out and sucking down a pack a day. Cratering,
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Answers From Everywhere
What book could you read over and over again? The answer is forty two. When I can’t focus on reading, I return to a book about a book that reassures the reader to not panic. So I don’t, and I learn that…
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kind of like magic
I will start revising what I worked on in my last session, and the next thing I know, hours have passed,
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What Would David Think?
Well there was one American David wasn’t afraid of. The rest of are sus. And rightfully so.
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I am who I am
Now I live in the comfort of a fated non-fate. I have been a husband, father, grandfather, and friend. I have arrived here not unhappy.
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Depends on who’s asking
Who are your favorite people to be around? There are many persons that are my favorite, but people, not so much. Crowds aren’t my kryptonite, but they aren’t my favorite places to be. Party? Yes! Peace? Yes, as well! Chaos? Not as…
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You know
You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do? Tell my partner. (I know. A stock answer. Almost a trope even. But it is true and I hope it is for you, too. )
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Hmm 🤔, in the beginning
The obvious answer would rightfully be the smartphone. Nothing has inflicted such good and bad as much as the conflicted world it has put in the palm of our hands. There was something before, though. In the beginning, computers had whole dedicated…
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Time, 2112, And Me
I have stood the crossroads. That place of clarity. That moment where you decide who you want to be.
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Time is not painless
Growth is a big piece of pain. I get stuck in a feedback loop. Sometimes physically, sometimes emotionally, sometimes both. When it is painful enough, I might decide to do something about it.
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