Look at this picture. Do you hear what I hear? The Windowx XP startup sound? This hillside is almost the default Bliss wallpaper. I’m not going to tell you I didn’t vocalize the startup sound as I took this picture. 😆 It’s only recently that I’ve begun to play that classic computer game Minesweeper. ThereContinue reading “A Picture You Can Almost Hear”
Category Archives: Life
Arguing With Myself
An actual conversation with myself at Ollie’s Bargain Outlet earlier today. “Look! A Farewell to Arms!“ “You have it.” “But…” “You have two copies. And an ebook.” “But I don’t have this one.” “You also don’t need it.” “But…” “Are you going to read it?” “No…” “Then why do you want it?” “I don’t haveContinue reading “Arguing With Myself”
Tales of Diamond: The Burnout
When I was in college one of my psychology professors, Dr. Rubin, asked in class one day, “Is it worth dying for?” He was talking about stress, what stress does to the body and the brain, and how stress takes years off a person’s life. Yesterday a blog post from 2019 surfaced on my blog.Continue reading “Tales of Diamond: The Burnout”
Those Ol’ Job Search Blues
I have written a great many cover letters over the past year and a half. There’s one thing, every cover letter, I have to decide. Should I include it? Or do I not? My visual impairment. A few months before COVID I spent a week in intensive care. My vision melted. I was on strokeContinue reading “Those Ol’ Job Search Blues”
A Little Perspective
In Search of Lost Time
AltaVista! For several years, AltaVista was my go-to search engine. Yahoo! feels like the first I used, and I generally used Webcrawler, but for important and difficult searches, there was nothing better than AltaVista. I was resistant to Google for a long time. I have absosmurfly no idea what the Windows 95 My Briefcase folderContinue reading “In Search of Lost Time”
Verbal Quirks
When I was four, my family moved from Maryland’s Eastern Shore to Chicago. My dad was in academia, my parents had a growing family (my sister was born in 1976), he asked for a small raise and was denied, so we packed up and moved to Illinois for a better paying opportunity. My memories ofContinue reading “Verbal Quirks”
Sunset of Fire
An unexpected thunderstorm rolled through shortly after 5 o’clock. It was welcome, because the heat has been utterly heinous the last two days, and we could use the rain. I went outside and, like Andy Dufresne in Shawshank, I spread my arms to the sky and let the rain pour over me until I wasContinue reading “Sunset of Fire”
The Day After Rain
Late evening, it rained here in Pennsylvania. Not just rain. Thunder, and a cold wind that ripped through the windows. We needed it. I was glad of it; I’d put down some grass seed in the patchy patch of grass in front of my apartment in the morning. It’s cool now, and there’s a lightContinue reading “The Day After Rain”
Is There Something in the South Carolina Water? I Hate That I Have to Ask…
Can anyone explain to me why the Hagia Sophia — the former basilica built by the Emperor Justinian, now a mosque in Istanbul — is a campaign issue in South Carolina’s Senate race? Anyone? Anyone? No? My inner historian is scratching his head and biting his lower lip in abject confusion. Constantinople fell to theContinue reading “Is There Something in the South Carolina Water? I Hate That I Have to Ask…”