If you want to be good at it you have to want to do it. It is not the same as enjoying doing something. It could be work. It must be worthwhile. And it is always something that just needs to be
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Walmart
Scott is the rush hour until closing manager at the local Safeway. He is now probably around fifty but he has been at it for at least twenty years. Outwardly, from what I see in the store, he is the definition of
Continue readingJoy Division
Frente!? I am just about to settle on that. Bizarre Love Triangle is my current favorite song and the Bernard Sumner acoustic version may turn-out to be the winner, but it–or rather he–has flaws. It all leads to and from Joy Division.
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Continue readingThe DNL
65 DNL is the administrative construct the FAA uses as a general indicator of excessive noise. More specifically: “The FAA uses the DNL metric and the 65dB noise threshold to make policy assessments.” (https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/policy_guidance/noise/history/) These things are incredibly complicated at first glance.
Continue readingLori Daybell II
I would rather go by what they say instead of what they look like. What they said was “send me that book” meaning I can’t find it myself and I won’t read it anyway. “I had the air conditioning fixed.” “I do
Continue readingThe Computer Monitors
Let’s review: I bought a 24″ HP IPS on eBay for $30. The scam ads were so appealing I bought an AOC for something like $35. I didn’t actually expect either of those. The whole portable usb-powered segment is interesting, so I
Continue readingIt is Saturday morning, 6:45. I am relaxing by reading this. Sunday Noon and it is not relaxing at all. Official Oppression. Mistreatment. Perjury in the second degree. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-dc-circuit/1872372.html
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This is about expectations. At the end, I’ll explain why. When I graduated from college I was pleased that my parents let me study what I wanted. I worked in Detroit for a while, went to California, and then was accepted at
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It was 7:07 in the morning when the attack began. It sounded as though a rocket had been launched in my backyard. Swoosh, boom! Then roar, and finally a long reverberation. It is a pernicious sound that grates on you; it is
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