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Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments. Neil Strauss, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships

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I recently set up a new desktop and named it rotanev. Let's see why... Skies of Arcadia shows up in this journal a couple times already in artifacts and music in games. This entry makes three. If you…

TO TELL YOU THE ANSWER TO THE LAST THING I LEFT OPEN: WE WILL JUST STAY WITH OURSELVES, BECAUSE WHAT IF SOMETHING WERE GREATER THAN THIS? IT WOULD OVERRULE US, AND BESIDES, THERE ALREADY IS THE…

Dearest liver, when did you lose heart? You’re just going through the motions now, doing the bare minimum. I’m forced to start looking for a replacement. Black coffee isn’t the hangover cure it was…

I woke up at 08:00am.The weather is sunny.The temperature is 105°F.It feels like 60°F.Links I found:https://www.latenightcopies.com/about-ushttps://wavefarm.org/I walked 3.3 miles (5.3 km).

In My Life There are places I’ll remember all my life. I’m talking about departments I’ve been a member of, though some have changed. First, the psychology department at Manchester University, in…

It is a challenge to get smaller types made in 400 scale by the mainstream diecast brands and even more […] The post British Midland Commuter | Saab 340B | G-GNTI | JC Wings first appeared on…

During the darkest days of Covid, my wife and I had National Public Radio on for hours a day. To listen to the news, we'd follow the feed through different cities. Tuning into Boston public radio,…

Why crawl back when shit happens? Why blame others for the things that didn’t work out? Some things are just hard to understand — too complex to comprehend. Relationships are complex.…

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So this happened yesterday. Today they're going to do the big assembly for the deck. A lot more work to do, and I'm unsure how it's all going to get done. But the beat goes on... ✍️ Reply by email…

1. New White House press secretary to be just a pair of pants on fire (tags: USA politics satire funny ) 2. An overview of how robots are trained (tags: robots ai ) 3. GLP-1 weight loss drug may slow…

Hey folks! Welcome back to another appointment with my Unpublished series! Did I say thank you for all your support already? I mean, you’re all awesome and I value the time you dedicate to…

Fall has arrived, and though I’m still completely and totally focused on the baseball postseason, it is also the time when the NBA and NHL start their games. I noticed a couple of odd charters…

There's a huge bias towards talking about people who were very notable or "successful" when young. So here are some interesting people who came through a little late.Kevin KellyI always admired Kevin…

My friend since we were eleven has been late for thirty years. At four in the morning he was in the hospital car park in his slippers. Nobody asked him.

This blog post is only incidentally about AI.

(You're looking at me) looking at myself looking at art (on the internet).

It was a long time ago now. 1985. That's over 41 years that have passed. We were living in Bath, on Great Pultney Street at the time, and I was a mature but immature student on a Bristol University…

1. The forecast, and the falling pressure, promise wet weather, but for now the light is fresh and busy, and the sky is such a kindly blue. 2. It's a work handover, but it's also a chat and a…

My old darkroom (2013) STATUS : Picking at a few projects around the house TODO : Clean garage LISTENING : Zeal and Ardor, GREIF WATCHING : "The Diplomat" season 4 I miss out on a lot by constantly…

9719/21638Finally writing a blog every day for almost 24 years has paid off. The people behind Horrible Histories liked my blog about Ernie and me enjoying the show and invited us to go to the…

This is part of a series as I document the life of a dress worn and lived in, in one real life, in the Highlands of Scotland. Object 003: Highland Mess Dress It's the Tattie Holidays here.…

An elaborate three-tier antique bronze fountain weighing approximately a ton was stolen from the garden of an estate in Fisherton de la Mere, near Warminster. The theft took place between October 8th…

I had just finished journalling about my writing and the need to lean into it when the Universe delivered this to me. Titled, "Photograph What You Love (Not Just What Impresses Other Photographers)"…

Earlier this year I rediscovered my enjoyment of Rubik’s Cubes. I am no way a fast solver but I like the challenge and it gives me something to do rather...

New blogpost has been added to the journal page: Alegria Jazmine Mary Janes: Product Review A product review of the Jazmine Mary Janes by Alegria!

From New England to Scotland, from West Sussex to Denbighshire I’m home… I am home and Coalbridge Street has returned to an upper shelf in the workshop, destined to slumber for a few months I’m sure,…

Well, dear readers, I must write these here notes in a hurry for she of the Evil Eye will be here all too soon and I need as much sleep as I can get, if you get my drift, which I know you do because…

Miles had a quick session with Deirdre and Holly this morning about Rocket and the freezer stocks and the October re-stocking purchases. There were some things that need to be cleaned out to make…

Sometimes you'll take a photo of your kid, and it will turn out to be a treasure to be shared among all of your friends and relatives. And other times it'll turn out like this. It's not her fault,…

Although 2025 transit ridership was the highest than in any year since 2019, it was also lower than any pre-pandemic year going back to 1998. The National Transit Database’s historic time…

In Inception, a spinning top tells a dream from waking life. I wanted that top on my desk, as a quiet nightly practice for noticing when I’m dreaming.

One of my wife’s oldest friends gave us not one, not two, but three different cards to congratulate us on our wedding. Granted, she was invited to both the civil marriage and the tea ceremony…

Happy Tuesday! Looking forward to seeing the kiddos today. I will get out of the house super early and go to Einsteins Bagels for a sandwich and tea. That's all I get until I get home for the day. I…

I climb into the truck hitting the door sill with my heavy mud stained boots hearing the sound of small stones scratching into the paint and putting their permanent mark on the metal underneath. But…

Isn’t it wonderful that you get to do the things that you do? All of them. You get to use your gifts at work to serve others. You get to...

Four things I learned today: honest leadership, turning a commute into learning time, where AI can outperform testers, and early signs that GLP-1 drugs may slow biological aging.

How clever.

A doctor, a truck driver, and a mission to save lives. If you scanned the QR code on the road, you might be wondering . . . Do I have a guardian angel?…Read more ›

Far more than we realize, we create the world we experience. The places we go, the people we choose to spend time with, the topics we choose to speak about, the words and tone we use, the books we…

It’s definitely exhibition season. I took time out from wallpapering to visit the Uckfield show (excellent as usual) and will post some pictures later this week. But first, what have we been…

Amateur radio operators know it to be true: ham radio is a good thing. At first glance, it may seem to be a weird and obscure hobby. When you dig deeper you find a truly wonderful world that…

getting on the same page with different books

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Welcome to another TTT! Every once in a while I enjoy putting a topic on the schedule that focuses on the person rather than the books. I love fostering community and friendships in the online…