So, when trying to come up with a topic for today, I had several in mind. One thing I’ve taught myself to do, however, is check my Archives page to ensure I haven’t written about a topic before. Now, I don’t see anything wrong with talking about a topic more than once. Goodness knows, I’ve talked about notes on this...

I’ve been trying to read the Dresden Files for over a year now. I love wizards. Harry Potter is one of my favorite series of all time, despite the many qualms I have with it. I’ve read many other books with wizards. Why? Because magic is effin’ cool. So, I thought I’d be able to pick up the Dresden Files and have a...

I’ve finished my reread of Ready Player One, which was this month’s book of the month for The Bookies, so I’ve moved onto another book on my list. I’m still very much starting The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, and I’m actually kind of getting into it. I’ve blatantly ignored all the reviews that are...

I know that this is a reply to a reply, but I just had to say: same. Goodness I hate to have email in my inbox. My mom, whom I love more than I can say, has 100,000 emails in her inbox, and that is probably a bit on the low side. It drives me fucking crazy. Every once in a while, she’ll need my help to find...

I spent the evening working on an app called Poster. The app cross posts between Bluesky and Mastodon/GoToSocial. It’s not special, but it was fun to write. It took awhile, since my Python is still very noobish, and very much a “how do I do this” -> “Google how to do this” workflow. But I did not write the README.md...

All I have to say is that, unless you’re mom is a horrible person (there are cases like that, we all know it), you should listen to your mom. As you get older, you will find over and over again, that most of the time your mom was right about things big and small. I’m not saying my mom has always been right, but...

I talked last week about how I planned on doing this weekly wrap up thing. I’m calling it a newsletter so that I can be pretentious about it. No sense in not being snooty about it. All of my fellow bloggers do “wrap ups,” I do a “Newsletter.” Work This was the week I found out that I’m likely not to have a job on...

Remember a few weeks ago, I wrote about how I had these plans to read a literal ton of books in October? I had been coming off my worse reading slump in ages, and dammit, I planned on finally getting some of the books off of my TBR list. Yeah. That didn’t happen. Now, to be fair, I did read some. Here’s the list I...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENUO7dbZ-TYI Simplified My Smartphone by Bullet JournalI know I wrote about dumb phones being a fad the other day, but I do find it fascinating when people keep their smartphones and are more intentional about their usage.

Every year since 2012, I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo. This year is a little different, since officially, NaNoWriMo is no more. Due to incompetence and mismanagement, the organization that ran NaNoWriMo killed the entire thing off earlier this year. A couple of years ago, my bud Amin created Writing Month, an open...

I’ve been writing about notes, note-taking, and notebooks a lot lately. Beyond the fact that I have a crappy memory and writing everything down helps with that, I also feel the need to create a record of my own personal history. As I get older, I feel more and more like I want to do things that matter, if not to...

I feel this. I’m the type of person who will willingly go on Twitter (even though I hate Twitter) just to find spoilers for whatever show I’m watching. Back when Castle was on, I visited TVLine almost every day looking to see if they had an article on what was going to happen in the next season. I also frequently...