I finally spent some time this week looking fot the bluetooth keyboard I knew was somewhere in the house. I looked in the spot where it used to live and it was not there. I checkd other likely locations. Nothing. My wife then checked her collection of things to possibly donate and there it was. … More Testing My New Writing Setup
I use a very old laptop when I write. It was my daughter’s before she upgraded for college. When I started working from home I started using it for work. It was old and clunky, but it worked. I could do what I needed to do. Part of the screen was messed up. There was … More Laptop Woes
We all have had the experience of having ads in our Facebook feed that appear to based on conversations we’ve had. It doesn’t surprise me that my smartphone is likely listening to me. It is a little creepy when my landline seems to be in on the conversation. A couple of months ago my wife … More Coincidence, Creepy, or Creepy Coincidence?
I can’t believe it is already August. Seems odd to type that date. Here is my weekly recap of what I’ve read and watched this week. Movies – We watched two movies this week. One was 1917. It is the story of two soldiers who are sent across enemy lines in WWI to deliver a … More My Week in Books, Movies, and TV 8/7/20
Wednesday is my evening at work so I am at home until 12:30 or so. That gives me plenty of time to be alone with my thoughts. Here are the ones for today, mostly brought to me by the coronavirus. I’m sad about the disruption of school for my daughter. It sucks to go from … More Wednesday Morning Thoughts
I have been saving this one for a day when I needed a prompt to write something. Today is the day. I stole it from I Won’t Say I’m In Love With Reading. Go read their stuff! You are supposed to answer with the first thing that pops in your head. Here are my answers. … More Rapid Fire Book Tag
This week finding the good is a little harder. I’m still not smart enough to write things down as they happen. Let’s see if I can find the good in the last seven days. As I mentioned in last week’s, both of my kids were home on Sunday. We all watched a movie and ate … More What’s Good in Tater Town 11/4/18
This is the year I finally got lazy and stopped keeping my written list of the books I read. I might try to go back to it this year. You never know when Goodreads might disappear. All of the stats are from Goodreads. My top book are the ones I gave five stars and then … More My Year in Reading 2017
After talking recently about my time as a jail librarian I have decided to do an occasional post with some stories about my life in jail. This prologue is not a jail story. It is the story of how I ended up in jail in the first place. I was living in Cincinnati, working at … More My Life as a Jailbrarian: Prologue
Caution spoilers ahead: We started the episode with a tribe swap and a switch from two tribes to three. I enjoy tribe swaps because it shakes up the game. People in trouble get new hope and people in power positions have to start over. I do feel sorry for the third tribe that … More Survivor Game Changers: The GOAT vs the goats
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