the next few weeks will be busy, if my calendar of upcoming techincal details is accurate. Nothing wrong with busy; wish I could couple it with some extra cash, so that I could get fully involved in things.
posted in technology | Comments Off on Preparing for busy weekends | 273 words
Tonight’s news is ringing in my ears; a welcome change from that steady hiss that I learned to accept. Call it ‘tinnitus’ but sometimes you don’t get bells. Anyhow, a pharmaceutical treatment has been found, and now we need to convince the industry that this is the ‘next great thing’. Let me whisper in their ear, if I might.
posted in music, technology | Comments Off on Let me improvise | 272 words
From time to time, I need to root. For the roots of others. I’m “one of those”, a genealogist, and there’s real satisfaction in digging out the connection between two other people. Particularly if they don’t already know about it. And every quest starts with a climb.
posted in genealogy | Comments Off on Climbing the stairs | 253 words
There’s something about the delivery portion of e-commerce that leaves me perplexed. Given the number of times I have had to deal with “exceptions”, and extrapolated out to the real world; how does anything get delivered? Is it just chance?
posted in economy | Comments Off on Misdelivery | 254 words
In the case where you don’t have too much money, you repair your stuff to keep it working. In the case where you have that tinker gene, you repair your stuff. But what about the case where your stuff is (essentially) junk AND you have too much money. Therein, the premise for a TV show.
posted in technology | Comments Off on Restorations | 288 words
Hat’s off to the designers of our current car. Today, in a rare test of load capacity, we were five adults and a dog, on the road for about four hours. The car nver bottomed out, or protested on the hills, or ran out of gas at an inopportune moment. Go, Rogue go.
posted in travel | Comments Off on Shadowy sky | 270 words
The stressful part of the day is finally over. Now I just have to decide which part of the day gave the most. Was it the hours of travel through qusi darkness on road that might have been filled with romping deer? Or was it the hours of meeting total strangers at a stressful moment in anyone’s life? I’m perhaps reacting to a combo.
posted in travel | Comments Off on On watch for leaping deer | 268 words
Lately, I’ve tuned into the catchphrase “first world problem”. I live in that world, and sometimes the problem is real. No help to those who live in other jurisdictions, but I want to rant. About the lack of choice in menu.
posted in food, humour | Comments Off on Soggy spars | 262 words
The long summer stretch is over. What with Jake locked in a container, some of us were getting a little worried. I mean, one of those big boxes looks pretty much like another, and there’s a lot of country beyond the Rock. But all is good. After his release from that Mexican prison…
posted in media, travel | Comments Off on Jake’s back! | 260 words
What’s worth more; time or money? An old man may have one perception, an employer another and a youth a third point. This afternoon, I attended a presentation dealing with overtime in the workplace. The whole concept of measuring work as value means that in the corporate setting, time is money.
posted in economy | Comments Off on Quantifying time | 253 words
