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Groundhog Day. An anniversary.
February 2, 1980. The hostages are still hostages. Jimmy Carter is president. And I got married for the first time. Forty years ago. It lasted less than two years. I now call it a practice run....
Found something new.
I finished reading “Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another” by Matt Taibbi. A very informative read. And I agree with his point that it may be too late to put the genie back in...
First entry of the year.
It took me a month but I finally finished “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power” by Shoshana Zuboff. The book does a pretty good job of tr...
Another year flashed by.
It took them two weeks but they finally found that little girl’s body. She had been washed downstream all the way to the lake. So sad. I’m glad they found her before the coyotes did. When I went ...
Desert Winter.
There were late monsoon rains in November and the usual monsoon floods. They are still looking for a six-year-old girl’s body from when her father drove the family over Tonto Creek and killed mos...
Spending money.
I rarely spend money. That is because I rarely need anything. But after doing the monthly load of laundry last week and putting on my “winter” cargo shorts I found them a little too tight around ...
Finally, coolness!
I woke up this morning and looked at the atomic clock. 62.4 degrees in here. I haven’t felt that in maybe ten months or so. I even turned the A/C over to “Heat” after getting up. At least until i...
Reasons.
The title may mean nothing. Or everything. I finished reading “The Testaments” by Margaret Atwood. I usually don’t review books, but I have a few words to say about this one. The Handmaid’s Tale ...
Perfect timing!
On the grocery run yesterday morning I stopped by the library to drop off the last book. I usually just buzz by the drive-thru drop off but this time since I had no books left in the pile beside ...
Four months?
I guess it has been four months since I’ve scribbled an entry. My bad! Books I’ve read since then: “America Before” by Graham Hancock (I’ve read him before but he was on Joe Rogan) “Upheaval” by ...
Another two months?
Since the last entry I’ve read six more books: “Aurora” by Kim Stanley Robinson “The Uninhabitable Earth” by David Wallace-Wells “Inadequate Equilibria” by Eliezer Yudkowsky “Team Human” by Doug...
Almost two months?
March 18 November 8, 2018 was an 80 degree day. There wasn’t another 80 degree day until March 6, 2019. Three months and twenty-eight days between. There hasn’t been one since March 6. There is f...
First book of the year.
I finished reading “America: The Farewell Tour” by Chris Hedges. More than a week since I’ve last scribbled in here. It may be a reflection of the semi-chosen lifestyle. There is not that much g...
Not here!
I’ve heard that there is winter weather other than here. Here it has been from the mid-fifties in the morning to the mid-seventies in the afternoon. My hold list at the library is down to two bo...
Good finds.
I’m back to my regular program. In bed from midnight to 8am. Coffee and reading until lunch. NPR, napping, and the pool until dinner. Dinner. Internet stuff until midnight. Repeat. And repeat ag...
Sad times.
The three week long visit from my daughter ended yesterday. I dropped her off at the airport after we went through the drive-thru at In and Out. She said she’d had a good visit. We did manage to ...
Scribbling on the first day.
Boots. Those thirty-something-dollar boots from Walmart, from China, weren’t going to work. Two short hikes south into the desert and the longer 12.6 mile wilderness hike proved it beyond a doub...
Another year gone.
The year in summary form. No airline flights. Two 3200 mile road trips. One west and north, the other east. Months upon months sitting in my chair under the A/C and reading. More than a few month...
It finally happened.
My ten year old laptop (or software?) gave out. I did a restart for an AVG update and when it got finished my password login wouldn’t work. I’m locked out of my own machine. Technology sucks. Now...
Still treading water.
I finished reading “419” by Will Ferguson. A nice little novel. I guess it would fall under the “suspense” sub-genre. Not something I’d normally pick up and read, but it was the next in my pile b...
Just ask the question!
Just one question. Probably the only question the 180 million people who didn’t vote for the dumbass want to know. I can picture it. A room full of reporters. Some of them on air live or online l...
A new mantra.
I finished reading “The Reckoning” by John Grisham yesterday. A nice little twist at the end of the story. That’s 24 books read for the year, so far. Today, after my morning coffee, I headed out ...
Getting caught up?
Anyway. It’s been three weeks since I’ve felt like scribbling. It’s been three weeks since we’ve been back in the desert. We left the Ozark’s on October 10. We drove to Oklahoma City. We had dinn...
Captain Trips?
Daughter slept most of the day Saturday. In the evening we went out for a walk on the city’s Greenway Trail. An hour or so into the walk Daughter started feeling puny. We turned around and headed...
Finally made it.
We spent one last night in the far northern Texas Panhandle and then packed up the car, filled the gas tank and headed east to Oklahoma City. We got there without incident, checked in and unloade...
