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Books Books And More Books

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My brother-in-law gave me an Amazon token for my birthday last weekend. After spending quite some time perusing the internet behemoth’s online store, I ended...

Recreating A Year

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I’m still waiting for Tumblr to sort out HTTPS on the account I setup yesterday. I’ve back-filled all the blog posts as far as July last year - tomorrow I wi...

Retracing My Steps

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After a long and rambling journey around the internet over the last few months, I think I might have found a home for my blog. Tumblr. Yes, Tumblr - the very...

46Th Lap Around The Sun

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Today marks the beginning of my 46th lap around the yellow dwarf main sequence star we call “The Sun”. I have somehow managed to wake up 16790 times in a row...

Sleeping All Day

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When I got up this morning I felt awful. Really, really awful. While it would be easy to write it off as caffeine withdrawal after stopping drinking coffee a...

No Sugar No Caffeine

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Two of my family informed me this morning that they are going “sugar free” for March, so I thought I might join them on their crusade. By “sugar free” they j...

First Day First Job

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I’ve always been pretty good at getting up early. If I set an alarm, invariably I wake up a few minutes before it’s due to go off, and usually disable it bef...

One Day After Another

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My bullet journal tells a story this week. Of course I can’t show you it, because the pages are filled with details about commercial projects that I’m not su...

Smoldering Embers

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I’ve been sitting in the junk room, procrastinating for the last half an hour. It’s been a day. A long day. A good day in parts. The fiery exploits of yester...

Fiery Comets

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Today started badly and got worse. I’m not going to go into what went wrong, why, who caused it, or anything like that. It was more a case of dancing among t...