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I previously observed that Susan and I were doing okay in the current coronavirus shutdown (which does not at all change the fact that, though it’s working out okay for us, it’s bad for the nation as a whole!). We not only aren’t losing money, we not only aren’t falling behind: we’re spending money, because we have it to spare, as the continuing ( Read more... )

 
Just since the last time I made any significant post:

My daughter (sroni) has rejoined her new husband in Ireland, where he now has a job with a multinational company ( Read more... )

 
Today I drank poison. I felt the effects almost immediately, but it wasn’t quite enough, so I gave myself another dose.

My poison of choice is a C2H5OH distillate in 40% solution, mixed with diet cola. Sometimes I’ll go with an alternative, a more dilute version - 6.5% - with Bloody Mary mix.

Why, yes, all alcohols are poisons. Ethanol just ( Read more... )

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Okay, it’s been awhile, so:

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I took advantage of Dreamwidth’s recent no-invite-necessary offer to open an account of my own. That went easily enough. Then I tried to import my LiveJournal: every entry, every comment. Since so many other people were doing the same thing at the same time, that didn’t go so easily. It took about a day to get my entries imported. I waited five ( Read more... )

 
I just signed up at feedbackathon. Never participated in anything like that before, seems like it might be fun and interesting.

Grammar/language peeve of the day: “whenever” used as a synonym for “when”. They are not synonyms. “Whenever” speaks of repeated - or theoretically repeated - instances of some occurrence, or alternatively of some indeterminate ( Read more... )