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Breakfast
No matter how complicated life gets or how convoluted the world seems, there’s always some solace at Waffle House… Waffle Houses are interesting in that they are always there for…
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Tweet
I guess the biggest news in the universe at the moment is that the world’s richest man – Elon Musk – just purchased the world’s most problematic domain – Twitter.com.…
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Sign of the Times
The is the first time I’ve seen a bare shelf at my local Walmart… I guess I won’t be making eggs for breakfast this week. Listening to “Even Less” by…
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Dusty
The weather here in Denver was a bit windy yesterday, which stirred up a bit of a sand storm that eventually ended up in my house… Today is all about…
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Shady
So I got an email from a sales-drone at Amazon today stating that they had noticed my EC2 usage had increased – so they wanted to discus my usage and…
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Empathy
Today, when I had to go and clean out the bin on my upstairs Neato vacuum, I noticed some interesting empathy. See, my upstairs Neato is a “Botvac Connected”, and…
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In stereo where available
My 32 year old, fifty pound, wondrously analog Denon AVC-3000 receiver finally succumbed to entropy today… I knew the end would come soon. See, the left channel had been weak…
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eBay, part the third
Back on March 23rd I mentioned that I’d sold a few things on eBay, and that one of the items was a rather high-end motherboard. Then on April 3rd the…
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Lift
Some excitement this morning; the elevator at my office failed – while I was in it. I got in, pressed three, the doors closed and the elevator got to about…
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Breakfast
This morning’s breakfast is “Le Peep”; there’s one just south of my place on Parker road, but I’ve not eaten there until this morning. I think the last time I…
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Collectables
Over the years I’ve collected a great many things, and most of them involve my various stories in writing and roleplay and tend to be artwork of various settings and…
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Weather
It’s a pretty typical March outside… Under that snow is probably a half of an inch of ice as it rained for a few hours last evening before getting below…
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Radio
For most of my childhood – so the 70’s and early 80’s – radio was a kid’s social media. If you wanted to know what the new fad was, the…
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Hello world!
Ye olde website has moved servers once again. The long and short of it is I found I could get three years of hosting at GoDaddy for a bit less…
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Changing of the guard…
For some time now I’ve been plotting a method of extricating the thousand or so entries I have here on Livejournal, images and all, and hosting it all State-side. Now,…
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Sensational!
I don’t do “news”, so it can often appear that I either live under a rock or that I’m emotionally detached — because I’m not in a panic over whatever…
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Of Roomates
People online are often shocked to discover that I have a roommate… I’m not sure why, other than I’m in my 50’s and roommates are a thing you do when…
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Eating out whilst staying in…
My roommate eats out a lot; lunch at work is always out and about and on weekends he’ll go get breakfast somewhere. This morning he was down in Parker at…
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Old-school World of Warcraft
In my scant free time I’ve been messing around with “classic” World of Warcraft a bit. It’s mostly just to have a change of pace from Final Fantasy 14. FF14…
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ARGGGG! (tension breaker)
As is par for the course; today I rolled out Office 365 to my users with instructions on how to set up 2FA and everything… And an hour ago Microsoft…