Recently I read "How to Pray When You're Mad at God (Or Anybody Else for that Matter)" by the late Ian Punnett, who incidentally was my favorite host on Coast to Coast AM.  I got inspired enough to actually write my own angry prayer.  It's on a phone right now, and yeah, peeved enough to actually use that tiny phone keyboard to write it all out.

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As once again thoughts of those already passed keep lingering at the edges of my mind ( Read more... )

I've run into a couple of issues with an upgrade on a desktop. I had to rebuild the hard drive(s) anyway, and so found out there's a new LTS version, and went ahead. Never had any real problem before, but now I do.

1. Mudlet is no longer offered out of the repository. This seems more due to no maintainer there. Weird that Kildclient is still ( Read more... )

Yes, it's time to get packed since we fly butt ugly early out to Indiana for my brother-in-law's service on December 7. Praying we can get away with checking in only two bags, and I'm happy I found the shoulder strap to the carry on, since that bugger's heavy in the hand. I took a couple things out, but I'm sure it'll still be quite weighty. So ( Read more... )

Facebook as a hostile foreign power

Can you say 'duh? What took you so long?'

Not sure how to categorize this.

Yesterday I find out one of our friends from the pagan community;

• Is going blind.


• Has kidney failure


• Is undergoing chemotherapy, and though cancer wasn't mentioned, I can't think of another reason for doing this.

And just to add to the misery, My mate came down with a case of breaththrough COVID on September 4. I ( Read more... )

This is really links to two articles along the lines of Damn Straight

CEOs are Hugely Expensive. Why Not Automate Them?

Your first Damn Straight! Every single argument to automate family wage jobs out of existence goes a thousand to a million fold for those making that much more.

Capitalism Doesn't Have to Be This Way.Another Damn Straight ( Read more... )

Okay, sad news. My father died three and half weeks ago, April 14. We all knew it was coming but...it's hard to say what I'm going through. I've been even crankier than usual for the most part, though work's certainly not helping in the mood department. Last time out I can count on one hand the number of stops that went according to ( Read more... )

Two months since the last update. Far too long, once again ( Read more... )

So, today was the trek through the Coastal Range home. Originally we were going to go alllllll the way south to Newport, OR, then get on US20E since it's low elevation to Corvallis and then northbound back home ( Read more... )