Category: Hobbies

It’s hard for me to get in a groove. I’m too much like a cat. I like patterns and consistency, but that also drives me nuts. I need to chill and go with the flow. And I need consistency. Biggest problem to that, most of my life anyway, is issues with sleep. Most of my…

Regarding previous, always asking myself what the intentions of people are. What are the intentions of the producers? The people in the documentary? What are they getting out of it? How is the observer effect effecting them? Etc., etc., etc. Is it Friday yet?

I love a good documentary. Sometimes it’s a historical documentary. Sometimes something about science. Sometimes a real life murder mystery. But I’m not naive enough to believe a documentary doesn’t have bias. They all do. The moment a writer, producer, editor, etc., decides to include something or not include something, there’s a bias. That’s how…

Well, it finally happened, my microwave died. And it’s a very sad thing too, I’ve had it for around 30 years now. It was quite literally my first kitchen appliance, something my mom bought me for my birthday or Christmas when I lived in a shitty little second story one bedroom apartment on 11th street…

For the last God knows how many years I’ve been what some might call a news junkie.  As soon as my first meeting was over and done with I’d turn on the iPad and start watching the news.  For the last few years I’d watch the NPR News Hour followed by Democracy Now.  I might…

I’m going to write about streaming tonight. From the perspective of an old fart. I love streaming. I got into it from day one. Used to get Netflix DVD’s. Three at a time. And it was perfect. I think early on I was watching Dexter. I’d have three DVD’s. Which was more than enough for…

I survived suicidal depression because of hope. But it’s a funny thing. It can help you through something. But it can also poison you. Wanting things you can’t have, that are only the product of luck, that can be a poison when you don’t get what you want. I have a pile of lottery tickets…

Here’s a new topic for a new day. Well, a new year actually. Actually, I’m attempting to set up my old journaling program to work on my new modern iMac, the joke being, that in a few years it’ll be a piece of shit, in the trash in fifty years, but people will still be…

My wife was asking me last night if I wanted her to look into doctors.  I went on a short, not loud, but emotionally enough charged diatribe about it, amongst other things.  If you have a chronic health condition, especially one that’s hard to pin down, you’ve probably had more than your fair share of…

And just went I thought I was at the tail end of the flu–bam–it all came back last night. Not the astronomic temperature, but definitely the constant state of freezing chills that have me heating my home office to Mexican beach front property in the summer temperatures. Plus my lower back/ribs are fucked up again,…