It takes me roughly a year to churn out one of my intricately plotted and carefully crafted pile of (roughly 80,000) words. [author aside: If you all actually bought my books, I’d be able to quit the job that pays the mortgage and feeds the bellys and I’d have more time to write. I’d be …
It’s that wonderful time of year when people get shivved in your local electronics store while in pursuit of the last PS5, drive-bys resolve parking disputes and the staff at the lay-by department have shotguns strapped under the counter, one hand never more than a hair’s-breadth away from the trigger. It’s getting tense. I try …
By definition. The tests are designed so the average score is 100. Sixty-eight percent of the people taking the test fall into the range of plus or minus 15% of the mean, or between 85 and 115. So I have to assume there is a significant skew downward to results lately because a large percentage …
Now if I’m totally honest, when my employer told us all to go home last March (2020, of course), I didn’t mind one bit. We are a bit of an insular family, anyway. I got rid of my hour long commute, could barbecue some snags at lunch and got an extra hour sleep at night. …
Apparently there’s a WordPress Plug-in exploit that allows nefarious bastards to gain access to my site and change shit. Posts prior to a couple of posts ago have been disappeared. With prejudice. Fortunately, the way-back machine has archives of some of those posts, so over the next few weeks, or months, I’ll reinstate them. Stay …
I got my first jab last week. There has been a lot of hesitancy about the AstraZeneca vaccine, and the EXTREMELY SLIGHT risk of blood clots. So I took it upon myself to track the side effects I experience. For the general public’s awareness, you understand. I received my first AZ jab the morning of …