Journal Eve Online Today will be 2 months that I've been playing. It's an online game (obviously) where you get to fly spaceships. It's huge and it's fascinating. In 2 month's I've just barely got my feet wet in it.
Journal Web Pageview Statistics are like crack. You get a big spike like this, and it's like the first hit. Then you keep checking back again and again to see if you can get another hit like
Journal Email Scare Notices Perhaps you've seen messages like this at the bottom of an email: This message (and any included attachments) is from Vail Health, Vail Valley Surgery Center or Howard Head Sports
Journal Collapse Three emails came from the school on Thursday afternoon, each of them announcing, in turn, that another case of Covid-19 had been discovered. 2 in the high school, 1 in
Journal 52 times around the sun as of today. It was a good day. I awoke to news that Donald Trump tested positive for Covid-19. There's lots of speculation that it's fake
Journal The DashCam On a lark, I got myself a dashboard camera ("dashcam") as an early birthday present. It's a Vantrue OnDash N4, with a GPS-enabled mount. Front, rear and inside cameras. I've had it in the car exactly one week. This morning during my grocery run
Journal You have to be firm. Eng has gone from the buyer paying it all up front, down to 70% up front. I have to give him some encouragement to not let the conniving cattle rancher push him around.
Journal An Offer I Couldn't Refuse Today I got a business proposal from Eng Emmanuel, regarding a $2 million sale of cattle vaccine in western Africa. What could possibly go wrong?
Journal A Sad End for Ms Monica Jose Well, it's Thursday, and I've had no reply from either My Dearest Aunt Monica Jose (a Swedish), nor from her niece and maid, Ms Elsa Karlsson (who is not a
Journal Letter Lost It appears my previous message was lost in cyberspace, or perhaps my case has been assigned to a new handler. In any event, here's the latest from Elsa (who is not a princess):
Journal Not a Princess. I had been hoping we could do the whole princess thing, but as it turns out, we're not going there. Instead, I'm leaving for an adventure in the United Kingdom.
Journal Are you a princess? Elza seems testy about my confusion over who is writing the emails and wants me to read the Bible. With a temper like that, how can she not be a princess?
Journal Monica! (Or is it Elsa?) Monica wrote back, proposing we enter a long term relationship, but I'm beginning to wonder if she's really who she says she is.
Journal Mrs Monica Jose Quarantine has come to this. Today I got this email from Mrs Monica Jose and decided to write a reply.
Journal Day 8. That's counting from the first day they shut down school here, which is as good a day to say "stay at home" started as any. This weekend was the first
Journal Photo Journal - Poe Dameron's X-Wing Photo Journal: Building Lego Kit 75273 - Poe Dameron's X-Wing Fighter (761 pcs)
Journal You're not going to be famous. So stop worrying about it. There are plenty of other things to focus on with much better odds of generating a sense of personal satisfaction.
Journal Resolved Arriving at this new year, I am allowing myself a cautious optimism. The world is in an awful shambles. If now isn't the time to resolve on making some improvements, when?
Journal 10 Ideas for Blog Posts I Might Write I'm not saying these are good ideas, or that I'll write these posts. But if there are any you'd be interested in let me know.
Journal Starting Over Sometimes, looking back, you realize it's time to make a clean break and start over.