Category Archives: Just Thinking

To everyone but myself: feel free to ignore this post, which is just a test of my ability to post from my tablet.

I like being busy.  That’s a good thing, lest I’d be overwhelmed, I suppose.  But there’s busy-busy and there’s productive-busy; my busy of late has been, mostly, busy-busy.  I prefer productive-busy.  Yet busy-busy is better than sedate and bored. I may have, … Continue reading →

The sound of rolling thunder awakened me this morning.  Sometime during the night, more explosive crashes of thunder, accompanied by heavy rain, jarred me from my sleep, but only briefly enough to know of the storm. This morning, though, the timing of the sound coincided … Continue reading →

I do not own a channel knife.  Until yesterday afternoon, I did not even know what a channel knife was.  But today, despite the hour, I am thinking of buying a channel knife. Ready access to a channel knife would … Continue reading →

At the moment, the unit of measurement of time is the second. In the International System of Units (SI), a second is defined as “The duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine … Continue reading →

My poem won the poetry contest.  Actually, I suppose it is more appropriate to say I won the poetry contest with my poem.  I am to be rewarded for my poem’s selection by being asked to read it publicly to … Continue reading →

I wish to call the world’s attention to a rant I posted on my company blog, but which nobody read, on July 22, 2008. There is no reason to believe the world will pay heed this time around, either, but … Continue reading →

Some things are more readily available in solitude. For example, this morning for breakfast, I fried an egg and toasted two slices of pumpernickel to make my own version of a fried egg sandwich.  Lunch, similarly, was something my wife would find unappealing: … Continue reading →

I already posted, on Facebook, photos of the two pieces of abstract art (acrylic paintings) I worked on yesterday.  So, I won’t post them here, for fear of being labeled an egotist of epic proportions. (How could I cope with such … Continue reading →

This morning, I’m off to drive my favorite spouse to the airport, whence she will wing her way to San Francisco for a four-day high school reunion getaway.  I will occupy my time with various projects I choose to pursue, along … Continue reading →

The envelope almost shouted at me: “Please favor us with the courtesy of a reply.”  That not-so-subtle effort at instilling guilt in me resulted in just the opposite of what the marketer wanted.  That blatant suggestion—that failure to respond to the … Continue reading →

You probably don’t know it, but you’re on my mind right now.  Yes, you are. Greg Brown…I don’t know him, but I know for a fact that we share perspectives on life. John Hiatt is among my favorite singer-songwriters. And … Continue reading →

Almost seven years ago, I read a post on a blog called Withinsight. The post, entitled “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana,” recounts research findings that suggest we experience 75% of our lives in our first 25 … Continue reading →

For most of my life, I’ve made decisions under the premise that they were not irrevocable.  “If this doesn’t work, I can just change it.” At some point, that argument starts failing. At what point is it no longer possible, … Continue reading →

Yesterday was a day of intermittent errors. Those missteps began early, when I went to the gym before daylight to carry out the regimen I was given by the personal trainer earlier in the week.  After using various pieces of equipment … Continue reading →

Have you ever encountered someone interesting, intriguing, and then decided to seek to learn more about that person by doing internet searches?  Yes, it’s intrusive and embarrassing and suggests a mild form of stalking behavior, but what the hell.  We’re all … Continue reading →

Last night, our friends talked about a game they had played.  It sounded like an intriguing game, especially if played among other people who one does not know well.  They called it “two truths and a lie.”  The idea is … Continue reading →

I was very upset with Suddenlink, our internet provider and pathway for Netflix, earlier today.  Well, most of yesterday and all days leading up to yesterday, as well.  And then I realized they weren’t the problem; it was the router…or … Continue reading →