So the day started with my having to despeckle and send one document and then translate another, along with its graphics, despeckle the resulting oeuvre and send it off, too ( Read more... )

Sometime during the first week of the month, I read Michael Connelly's Two Kinds of Truth in three sittings over a three-day period. My view of /detective/police/mystery is that they are entertainment, and this one was certainly entertaining.

The next book in my pile of digital tsundoku was The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary ( Read more... )

...but I am still alive and kicking.

Today was a good day.

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As soon as I open my big yap about how "normal" yesterday was, I hit a night where I could not fall asleep for love or money (an expression, as I have no idea how things might have to work out to make that literal ( Read more... )

In filling out a survey about memorization, one question asks, "What's one problem you hope to address by improving your memory?"

My response:
They say that if a shark stops swimming, it dies. All my life, I've felt that if I stop learning, I would mentally "die," an idea that became more acute after my mother (a college graduate with masters ( Read more... )

...but not to worry, I've been making scratches with ink and nib in a notebook in the meantime ( Read more... )

I hope to do better tomorrow.

Cheers...

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It has been dawning on me, over the years, that January is really a killer month, because it seems everybody wants a piece of you in January-property owners associations, tax assessors, and so on ( Read more... )

Wow-2018! Time has put a real dent in the twenty-first century, hasn't it?

We had what my parents would've called a "party" last night. (Actually, it was a party, but not like the ones to which I remember my parents dragging me when I was a child-people there seemed to be having such a grand time, but I digress ( Read more... )

Barring some kind of surprise last-minute item, the last assignment of 2017 has just been sent ( Read more... )