Okay here's he next installment of the "Apinautica." Recall our protagonist had gotten in a fight with his Turkish girlfriend and set out on his own.


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   I spent at least an hour editing an article someone had submitted for the magazine the other day, saved it as a word file, and thereafter I haven't been able to open it (all programs claim its not a word file, but it's not anything else??). This reminded me that it was that kind of shenanigans which had driven me to edit documents in the browser ( Read more... )

   Yesterday I got home from Ye Old Factory after an overnight shift, at 11:30am. I proceeded to take a nap on the couch ( Read more... )

Continuing the memoir, and having just left Egypt, we pick up 24 hours later. For you the lead up to this was months ago but someone reading through the memoir itself will hopefully recall from two chapters ago when I applied for this job while still in Australia.

May 5th, 2013, California - "This is not a game of survivor, no one is getting ' ( Read more... )

I probably should have posted these Egypt sections in closer temporal proximity, being as the whole section was already written before I posted the first one. Ah well. On the plus side I just finally finished the Turkish chapter that comes a bit after this, and I'm thus finally finished with 2013! But anyway, for now, the third and final Egypt ( Read more... )

   It all began with Master and Commander. And that was so good that then there was Hornblower. And then, between audible and amazon there were recommendations of more and more similar series. The weirdly specific genre of dozen-book-series-about-a-protagonist-in-the-Royal-Navy-during-the-Napoleonic-Wars seems to have a surprising number of ( Read more... )

   I just had a thought about a book I'd like to write. So the Ides of March having just passed I'm seeing a lot of mention of it on Twitter (I probably follow a disproportionate amount of history nerds ...... who, incidentally, tend to unfortunately skew towards toxic opinions, though that might be an all-twitter thing now (though there's a funny ( Read more... )

So this morning I came across this cool chart:


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Its been some time since I posted the next installment of the memoir. Last time I posted the beginning of the Egypt chapter. This is the second of three installments of it. This one will have a lot about beekeeping, but also notes about pyramids and helpful suggestions for cat names :3


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