Month: August 2026
-
Productive Saturday
Today has been a good day. Stephanie took the boys out so that I could have some time to myself. I got some laundry done. I took a shower. I listened to my vinyl of Simon and Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits. I listened to my 18 minute subliminal concentration program. My daily habits are done except…
-
Learning by Repetition
It is well established that the human mind learns best the ideas that are repeated to it. This is compounded when those ideas are repeated by the person whose mind is in question. Steven Covey taught that one of the best ways to learn something is to teach it. We go over the information coming…
-
Points of View
I grew up with situational comedies on television. Sit Coms usually ran on the premise that someone heard something out of context and the person they heard couldn’t properly correct the misunderstanding until the end of the 22 minute show. But there was a secondary shtick where something bad happened and was being investigated. Then…
-
Coming Soon
One of the lies I was told as a child is that we are in late stage capitalism. It’s been fifty years since the system was about to collapse. It’s coming soon and the people who believe it won’t hear otherwise. It comes from an older strain that communism is inevitable. It’s been almost a…
-
Leave the Fat in the Fish
One of the biggest selling points of fish is the fat. If you process it out then the fish isn’t as healthy. Today I was grocery shopping and looked at the fat content of imitation crab. The answer that came back was zero. That’s definitely not what I want. So I put Omega 3 into…
-
Record Player
Yesterday my mother gifted me a compact record player. I already had a few vinyl records to play on it. I have successfully listened to two of those records and am on my third. Glen Campbell this time. The last two were both Anne Murray. Ben slept on the couch through the first album. Ben…
-
Saturday “Fun”
This morning there was an early knock on the door. It was the artist formerly named Raven (the homeless dude I sometimes talk about). I let him in and went upstairs to get dressed. He helped himself to Ben’s chicken nuggets which set Ben off. Raven/Rick/Ricky is going by the alias River now. He had…
Latter Day Sinner 