How the heck did it get to be a week since I was snowed in on Whidbey? It feels like the entire week was spent (most people would put "on" or even "working on" here, but it reads better as simply) Going Sideways; mostly fighting with WordPress. I did get a little done on $writing-gig-6 though.
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Today I am grateful for...

• Finally making it back to Seattle after having been snowbound much of last week.
• Reconnecting with my bite guard, which I'd left behind the last time I went up to Whidbey. NO thanks to my right temporomandibular joint.
• My debugging skills not having lapsed too much during my retirement ( Read more... )

Well, today was our forty-sixth wedding anniversary, and the first without ( Read more... )

It was a long month last week. And not a particularly good month, either.
On the plus side, I was busy getting the Going Sideways travel blog ready to ( Read more... )

For the last couple of months I've been working with
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Well, it's the start of a new year, so it's time for my annual goal-setting post. Or wishful thinking post, more likely. But anyway, here we are.
Hopefully 2022 will be better than 2021, but I'm not optimistic. I tried ( Read more... )

Welcome to January, 2022! May 2022, against all odds, be an improvement on 2020 and 2021.
Posting stats: 7078 words in 11 posts in December of 2021 (average 643/post)

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Hey, 2021! Don't let the door hit you on the way out. And I thought 2020 was bad... Last New Year's day I wrote:
I would like to think that 2021 will be an improvement on its predecessor, but I am not so foolish as to say so out loud for fear that it will be taken as a challenge.

It didn't work. A year that starts with an ( Read more... )

Today I am, apparently, snowed in on Whidbey Island. Nevertheless I am grateful for...

• Propane and power. (At least so far.)
• Things to keep busy with. (Of course, the dead-tree books I was in the middle of reading are in Seattle.)
• Rapid, at-home COVID-19 testing. (When you can get it. I did manage this time.)
• A ( Read more... )

Today is Charles Babbage's birthday. Also Boxing Day, but I haven't written a song about that. Yesterday was my first Christmas without Colleen. I'm not going to try to summarize the week this time.
The YD held a Solstice party Tuesday, so I finally got to see her new ( Read more... )