Highs and Lows; Ebbs and Flows
January 22, 2026 → I'd really like to have the motivation to be out making photos. January's doldrums are always a challenge, but this year feels a little different. While I know it's not, to me, it feels much colder th...
January 18, 2026 → It's no longer a question: as of January 17, 2026, I think I am once again a physical media girlie. Kathleen and I visited The Turning Point yesterday as part of our Saturday adventure to see what was...
January 17, 2026 → Well then, it has sure been a minute since I purchased a CD. Before this week, the last time would have to have been around 2010, after seeing Forest City Lovers (RIP) and Loon Choir play at Raw Sugar...
January 15, 2026 → While there was a time in my life that I played a whole lot of computer games, I really haven't much in the last 25 years. I don't think it was any one thing that did it: I mostly just lost interest p...
A Discourse, Of Course, Of Course
January 12, 2026 → I know it was a bit naïve of me, but my gosh, did I ever not expect that Linux folks On The Internet to be so full of passionate about ensuring that software defaults reflect their personal preference...
Stationery Fit For Correspondence
January 11, 2026 → As I might have mentioned in the past, when I have more formal correspondence to write (for example, some of the change-of-name requests, letters to MPs and MPPs, etc.), I have taken to doing so on a...
Lottie Joy's (Kitchen) Laboratory
January 8, 2026 → Until this vacation week, there was one thing that was keeping me eating vegetarian instead of vegan: breakfast on office days. Admittedly, it's not as if I was helpless in the situation, but more stu...
The Waiting Game. Always Hard Mode.
January 8, 2026 → In the same way that a watched pot never boils, an email you're looking for never does quite reach your inbox, your phone remains silent, and the postie has nothing but circulars for your mailbox. Wha...
A Final Word on my Bluetooth Adventure
January 7, 2026 → So it looks like, for whatever reason, my Bluetooth woes were limited to the two specific devices I was trying to use: a Logitech M720 mouse and a K780 keyboard: I was able to connect both of them to...
Love At First Type (I Couldn't Stay Annoyed)
January 6, 2026 → So then, my new keyboard (a WOBKEY Crush 80 Pro arrived this morning, and the minute I began typing on this beautiful and weighty keyboard (It's nearly 5½ pounds!), whatever thoughts I had about how I...