Neogy Titwhistle
"I could perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principle design was to inform you, and not to amuse you."
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Pissed it all away! in A small but passable life.
I did it. I’ve successfully spent or gave away all but a little over a hundred bucks of that $1200 government handout. After a decade or so of being totally broke and really not noticing it, havi...
Ain't gonna work. in A small but passable life.
“The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe” by Roger Penrose. I hated to do it. But I had to. I closed the book somewhere in Chapter Two. I was already lost. I’m going to...
Statistics. in A small but passable life.
I want to thank everyone for the Happy Birthday’s. You people are the greatest! I like to have something to keep track of. At first it was the first and last 100 degree days of the year. That wou...
Perfect! in A small but passable life.
Yesterday was the perfect birthday. I went in to make coffee in the morning and Mom said “Happy Birthday!” I drank coffee and dinked on the interwebs. Then I went to the pool for a quick dunk and...
This can't be good. in A small but passable life.
On the front page of prosebox at the top of the page are entries written minutes ago. Scroll to the bottom. Those entries are posted thirteen hours ago. I remember when an entry disappeared from ...
That's that. in A small but passable life.
Mom woke me up at 6:30 this morning to remind me that the HVAC crew was going to be here between 7 and 8. Whatever. The crew arrived and set to work. One guy out back, one guy underneath, and on...
A tad warm? in A small but passable life.
How many days a year are over 100 degrees here? Please! That is nothing. August 9th the record of 33 days in a year of over 110 degrees was broken. And if I’m still thinking clearly, every day si...
Nearly two months? in A small but passable life.
Yeah, it has been that long since I’ve posted an entry. I have finished reading two novels in that time though. The first one, “The Peripheral” by William Gibson was a good one. Here’s an interes...
More fires. in A small but passable life.
The swimming pool is open once again. It was closed for three months. Now I can get back to my routine. Back to filling in that couple of hours between the end of the last cup of coffee and then ...
It's all just numbers? in A small but passable life.
I haven’t really been taking a deep dive into news stories. I read the headlines. I listen to a few programs on NPR during my afternoon nap time. Another 1.5 million filed for unemployment the w...
We all need a giggle! in A small but passable life.
Posted on April 9: Posted on June 4: Enjoy!
Same old, same old. in A small but passable life.
The bank bailouts after the 2008 financial meltdown was classified at the time as the greatest transfer of wealth ever seen in this country and most of the Western world. But it was only in the b...
Keystone cops! in A small but passable life.
The best part are the comments below the video! (If you watch it on youtube.)
Last day of month chores. in A small but passable life.
Yesterday did not “cool off” to 106. It was 111 degrees again. And last evening just at dusk one of those wind/thunder/rain/dust desert storms came ripping through. It even knocked out the power ...
New arrival! in A small but passable life.
I ordered the new guitar on the 24th. On the 25th a gentleman from Sweetwater named Corey called and said the guitar had been shipped and was on its way and that if I had any questions his number...
Can't stop laughing! in A small but passable life.
How the fuck has the human race slipped so far off the rails. We’re living in a fucking “Twilight Zone” episode.
There were criteria. in A small but passable life.
The money had appeared in my bank account for no other reason than by accident of birth I was born where I’d been born. You can’t get any more random than that. Since my backpacking “Ultimate Gea...
All I need. in A small but passable life.
Is motivation? I had been to two different walmarts and amazon looking for a cheap yoga mat. No luck. Yesterday I took Mom to our usual walmart, the first one I had been to two weeks ago and foun...
A pile of cash! in A small but passable life.
“It is as if Mother Nature has sent us all to our rooms to think about what we’ve done.” -Stuart. I found a $1200 deposit in my credit union checking account. A very nice surprise. Wasn’t sure it...
Last piece of gear? in A small but passable life.
I ordered the Big Agnes Tiger Wall UL2 tent on the 18th of April from REI. The tent, the footprint, and sales tax totaled $379. Shipping was free. Both the tent and the footprint were 25% off. Th...
Silence. in A small but passable life.
The window to my little room has been open 24/7 for a few weeks now. The thermometer in my atomic clock reads from 68 degrees at 8am to maybe 77 to 80 by sundown. And what I’ve noticed is the lac...
A waiting game? in A small but passable life.
I finished reading the two non-fiction library books I had checked out. First was “Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It) by Elizabeth Anderson. And the...
Who knows? in A small but passable life.
If I had my druthers about it I would don my backpack, figure out how to drag along a couple of months worth of food and a stack of novels and my lawn chair, and hike out into the desert for a si...
Captain Trips? in A small but passable life.
I went out to the store a few days ago. I got everything that was on our weekly list except for canned veggies. There were none. I got the last four packages of instant tators and the last four p...
Desert rain. in A small but passable life.
It did rain. All day Saturday and some more Saturday night. The new untested rain gauge ended up showing 1 3/4 inches of rain total. Normal February average is 1.1 inches. So yeah, the weather co...
