It’s been a rough 2024 for me so far, and I’m done with it. But, I don’t want to be mired in the negatives, so I’m going to recount the good things that have happened so far. One. Shadow is alive and healthy. He’s old and cranky, and he definitely has old man cat body… Continue Reading
It’s been one hell of a new year so far. I’ve had so many little things go wrong, I feel off my stride. Yesterday, when I went to the mechanic, I did not even do my weapons practice because I had to get up at ‘what the fuck?’ o’clock in order to drop my car… Continue Reading
Got up at ungodly o’clock (for me) to take the car in. Did the stretching part of my Taiji warmup, but not the weapons because I knew I was going to be walking home. It’s .8 miles from my house, so just about my level of comfortable. And I would have to do it twice.… Continue Reading
I’m bringing my car into the garage tomorrow between 7 – 9 a.m. so that they can look at the battery and possibly replace it. That’s irritating, yes, but at least it’s a problem being taken care of. The place is about a quarter mile from my house so I can walk home after dropping… Continue Reading
The internet is good for a lot of things, but one thing that it’s not good at is…how do I phrase this? Follow through. Or going past the meme. Many social justice phrases were thought up for legit reasons and were very meaningful. But then they get repeated ad nauseam until they lose all meaning.… Continue Reading
I’m 52 years old. That’s incredible to me. Not just becuase I should be dead, but because as people smarter than I have said, time just flies by. It makes sense. When you’re ten, a year is a tenth of your life. When you’re fifty, it’s a fiftieth. Yes, it’s the same amount of time,… Continue Reading
I am still annoyed by life. The start to 2024 has not been the best, but it hasn’t been the worst, either. I wrote yesterday about how the small things seem much worse because I can’t actually talk to a human being. Let me talk to a real human, and I’m much more patient–even if… Continue Reading
I have railed (recently, even) about how monopolies suck. No, that is not a massive revelation or anything new. We all know this, but it bears repeating. I’m irritated because I got an appointment with CenturyLink (phone company) for a technician to come today. The appointment window? 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. This is, of… Continue Reading
I’m so annoyed. SO. ANNOYED. The new year has been a drip of irritating things (to be fair, it started at the end of last year), and it’s continuing. The first tihng was my internet acting up (saying I was using a TERABYTE of data in one month after years of using 10 GB a… Continue Reading
When I was in my twenties, I started writing mysteries. I took a class from an author I really admired. We brought in our work and had it critiqued. She said that I could not have an ‘I’ protagonist and then have scenes without that protagonist. I asked why not. She said it just wasn’t… Continue Reading