Year: 2020
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Day 122 of the 14 day COVID-19 lockdown
I’m noting some depression starting to darken the edges of things. I’ve not really left the house for anything other than to go to work since March. Sure, I’ve been…
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Rifle, part 3
In a surprise to exactly no one, my background check came back okay and I was able to finally pick up my new rifle today. And there it is in…
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Rifle, part 2
Anyone who tells you it’s too easy to buy a gun, especially right now, has never bought a gun… It’s a simple eight step process that can take a week…
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Wild Wild West
I’ve not directly owned a firearm for a really long time, in fact the last time was my Navy days back in the late 80’s. I carried a 1911 while…
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Behold! A cellphone that just makes phone calls!
As I mentioned a while back, I’m giving up on my iPhone XS Max in favor of something with less demands on my time and attention. Enter the Light Phone…
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Eating local…
With the threat of zombies and whatnot, a lot of the local grocers are generally out of good meat these days. Sure, you can still get generic 70/30 ground and…
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The morning walk…
A few shots from today’s route: It was weird to be the only customer in V.I. who wasn’t staring at a phone… Luckily I had my Kindle to fill the…
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Falling down…
After picking up a couple of sodas at 7-11 on the way in to work this morning, I stepped off of a curb into a pothole and unceremoniously face-planted right…
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Home Improvement
A few weeks ago I discovered that some of the local steak places are selling ‘you cook it’ steaks, chicken, pork-chops, etcetera to offset the lack of eat-in business. For…
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Unplugged, part two
While waiting for the new phone to arrive, I’ve been training myself to not rely on the iPhone quite so much; leaving it on my desk when I go to…
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Unplugged
I’m making the move to ditch my thousand dollar iPhone XS Max in favor of a $250 thing called the Light Phone 2. The move from a “smart” phone to…
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物の哀れ
Mono-no aware: the ephemeral nature of beauty – the quietly elated, bittersweet feeling of having been witness to the dazzling circus of life – knowing that none of it can…
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Working from home, day – I honestly don’t know…
With this being stuck in the house thing, I’ve realized how important the drive to and from work is… The drive serves as a line in the sand between the…
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Wide Open Space Therapy
I needed to get out of the house for a bit this morning; the lockdown thing is starting to wear on me. Fortunately I live on the eastern edge of…
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Extended lockdown…
Looks like I will be stuck at home for another couple of weeks. Yay…
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Notes from Second Life
With the economic downturn I’m shutting down Roanoak in Second Life once again. While I enjoy the fact so many other people enjoy the place, I really don’t need to…
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Welp…
Just for posterity: And yes, I do have a Unicorn as my lock screen — doesn’t everyone?
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Still going…
The last of the stuff from the old condo was hauled out on Friday, and this morning the cleaning crew I hired to ensure the place was in tip-top shape…
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New digs
In my last entry I mentioned that I was moving; and two days ago I picked up the keys to the new place. Initially I had planned to start the…
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Test for Echo
I like music, so much so that I’ve had some pretty stellar equipment over the years to reproduce it; signed-by-Bob-Carver Phase Linear stuff, prototype Adcom amps, speakers from such greats…