Bob Unembellished ⋅ 62 ⋅
More than a quarter of a century writing on the internet. I've shared a lot. I've learned a lot. Let's go for a half century!
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Stopping to check his stocks in Monkey Mountain in Book Two
I spend a lot of time online. You do too. It is rare to hear about anyone these days that doesn’t. There are a few holdouts. There are people who don’t own a cell phone. I know one. There are pe...
Bob's your uncle in Book Two
Today feels like a Sunday because yesterday felt like a Saturday. Four day weekends are a little discombobulating. I mean, the train yesterday was busy at 9am. The breakfast place today has a l...
Temporal Displacement and a Side of Toast in Book Two
It’s a four-day holiday weekend which means crowds at my favourite breakfast restaurant and later near the harbour. I’ll make toast. I want to watch the news anyway and see what that idiot in th...
Where's Bob walking? in Book Two
Today I saw a guy who I met last week. He didn’t see me. It is now 8:15 Wednesday morning and I am out on my 26th floor balcony with a cup of coffee. I hear the city rumbling and humming. The ...
The rise and fall of the blog in Book Two
In the 17 or 18 years before I retired, I worked as a real estate agent. In the first few years, I struggled. But after that, I made a decent living. I was lucky. Timing was on my side. I starte...
The stories we tell ourselves get better over time. If it is true that there really are only two kinds of stories, comedies and tragedies, mine are certainly comedies. I like to look back an...
Bob needs a friend in Book Two
I don’t like any of my friends in Taiwan and this is a bit of a problem because I only have 2. With Joe, my American friend, the longer I know him, the more he reveals about himself and those ...
It is so hard to keep rolling this boulder up this hill in Book Two
I need to find a way to reward myself. Something gamified. An App. I need an app to reinforce positive behaviour and punish bad behaviour. I need an app that will get me to do yoga and push-up...
A retired sea captain living in Taiwan in Book Two
I would like to say that I missed the rambling ambiguity. I would like to say I missed the shambolic bonanza of incompetence. I would like to say that I missed the clowns and the court jesters ...
Honesty and directly and in point form in Book Two
Now that I am back, I’ve decided a few things. 1. I am going to write before I read. That way I will not be impacted by what I read (at least not right away. It is better to let thoughts percol...
I used to write here. I used to write on Open Diary. I even used to write on Diaryland. But that was a long, long time ago. That must have been 1999 or perhaps even 1998. Funny how time flies. ...
