The older I get, I notice I am a lighter sleeper.

When I was young, I could take a nap while being in a car driving in traffic. I slept well. Eight hours of sleep.

Then once I reached fifty years of age or so, that the number of hours of sleep at night, before involuntarily becoming "awake" started to shorten. Eight hours on average when young ( Read more... )

mastodon - fediverse - statistics site

FediDB - Fediverse Network Statistics https://fedidb.org/.

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truthiness - news - corroboration

Self-reminder: use other country's news sites to corroborate the truthiness of news.

Low hanging fruit:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news site. https://www.cbc.ca/news.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation news site. https://www.abc.net.au/news.

I vote.

I vote at the ballot. With where I shop, who I donate money and time to, where I stay online.

I generally choose "mrflash818" for anything on the internet, so a websearch on that ID generally is a UUID for me.

For journal-ing I will stay on LJ.

For interacting "conversationally," I have transitioned to mastodon.

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Moisture fell from the sky overnight! The ground is wet!

Huzzah!


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Received some health news about a relative last week.

They had a health issue that required a hospital visit.

Will be calling them this week to wish them well.

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The above has me triggered emotionally.

It just seems that My Little Family does not get to have many moments of happiness, without something else happening that ruins it.

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Via a social media site, asked friends for recommendations of job sites, if they had had to do their own job searches recently.

Their recommendations were:

• linkedin
• indeed
• monster
• glassdoor
• careerbuilder*

*From myself, as I used careerbuilder back in the day, so also added them to the job search site list.

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Self-reminder: also look at ( Read more... )

"Not all those who wander are lost." -- JRR Tolkien

Today, I like the idea of my new job being something new. Something I've not done as a job before.

Sure, I still have requirements for jobs I am willing to except.

No travel.

Not far from where I live.

US$125+k/year income.

A 401k/403b and/or pension program. Full family dental, ( Read more... )

A strong wind storm happened here this week.

It was strong enough to damage local trees and houses.

Thankfully, unlike a previous wind storm about 10yrs ago, this time we were spared any damage to our house.

Part of a tree from a adjoining property fell. We called the utility company, as we are supposed to. They took a look. Then said would ( Read more... )

A few days ago there was a strong wind storm.

We lost both electricity and internet service 20240107 starting at about 7pm.

Thankfully the utility crews had them restored by about 1pm the next day. Huzzah to them!

But there are now persistent fires that seem to have started.

Today, there is a fire warning for the area above the city of San ( Read more... )