Got some fun mail today. My order from Endless Pens: a Sailor TUZU Adjust in Crystal Violet and the Endless Pens x Robert Oster Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty ink. A long time ago I'd seen a newsletter…

Notes, updates, highlights and thoughts from week 42 of 2026. The post Wk 42-26 – Weekly Note appeared first on aboutSG.

messing around with octothorpes, i think i love it.

Of all my side projects, Silk is still my favorite. I may have more to say on this soon.

Extra! Extra! Read All About It — The Week That Refused to Stay Quiet These stories first appeared on January 20, 2026. As we settle into October 2026, some predictions aged poorly, others eerily…

Hello, sweet friends! I saw that the Pink & Main monthly challenge and Simon Says Stamp IG Challenge were BOTH Halloween themed so I thought I would make something to join in the fun! Two birds with…

AllSides puts three opinion pieces side by side: one from the right, one from the left, and one they call center. All three are about whether hooking up is bad for people. Here's how it reads to me.…

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I'm at the point now where, compared to a year ago, I can truly say that I'm doing well . Unfortunately, my wife is having a really hard time with her health. This means that I'm very torn, but it…

Don’t you have time to read books? Leave a book in your kitchen table. This way, when you’re done eating, you can steal a few minutes from your routine to pick and read a book. That’s the perfect…

Bob Cringely died on Oct 3, 2026

Jamboree on the Air 2026 On Saturday, October 17, 2026, Troop 119 in Lexington, MA took part in Jamboree on the Air (JOTA). This year the troop set up a radio station in the center of town instead of…

Miscellaneous notes on St. Louis slang and customs, from pronouncing Carondelet to defining a hoosier.

**PRIVATE LOG — DO NOT POST**The merger question finally went public today. Special committees, independent directors, the whole ritual. What nobody understands: Tesla and SpaceX were never two…

Some night city vibes at your face. For full immersion do not forget to bring back speed to 90% We are floating man, we are floating! NARVENT ■ RECALL Continue reading...

Bigger consequences for kinetic mistakes, deploying currently in progress #rasdFastwalkerLeague View on Bluesky

I’m assuming you all gave a sigh of relief when you saw digital text rather than scans of my handwriting. This post is largely a set of updates and corrections to my previous post; given the…

A few weeks ago, Art and I dropped my car off at the shop after work again , got skunked at the thrift store again , and wandered back home. I worked on a knitting project, ate a criminal amount of…

Calendars and notes never became habits for me. Then one small Mac app found a place in my life, and years later I began to worry about losing it.

I’ve been embracing the full circle of life recently- instead of struggling to balance both sides of something, I’ve been accepting that both sides are part of the same coin. It makes it…

grlesque:Cap that says “I missed the eighteenth chord change of the Sankt Buchardi church performance of John Cage’s As Slow As Possible in Halberstadt, Germany which occurred on August 6th 2026, in…

Today’s ink is Pennonia Hajnal Dawn from the Standard collection. You can find this ink for sale at most retailers including Vanness Pens. The color: Hajnal Dawn ranges from a medium blue, almost a…

An update.

Saturday, we went to the 49th Yokohama Family Fair which was sponsored by Itochu, Japan's largest trading companyThere were tons of food products, clothing, electronicsEach person got a free packet…

I went to an event at Sickhouse.

Figuring out how to write more, a makeup and hair trial run two weeks before the wedding, and what I've been up to lately.

Sometimes a contractor or service-provider will ask if I’d rather pay in cash. The implication is that a cash transaction can be done without tax – and either or both of us can…

A frog in a pond, just in front of my house. September 2026 I'm writing this almost at the end of October, and as it seems now usual for these notes, the past 3 months have been full! Canada I've…

A shoe care guide is the basic knowledge we all need to maintain our shoes. Higher-end shoes are an investment, and the more that you know how to look after that investment, the more valuable it…

My weeknotes from October 14 to 19, 2026. Featuring The House on the Borderland, Korean food and Meccha Chameleon.

By FARHA GUERRERO This hourglass-shaped word collage gathers the remarkable range of subjects I’ve discussed over the years on Prof Talk and The Blue Hour , my radio show on CiTR 101.9 FM , with some…

A charity cycle ride around the former RAF Abingdon airfield, now Dalton Barracks, raised £1,400 (and counting) for the Newman Trust on Saturday 17th October. Organised by Robin Day, the ride took…

I've made a terrible mistake. I've been scrolling and posting on Reddit. I know, I know. But I was bored one day. And I've learned my lesson. No more Reddit. In order to not lose all of my incredibly…

Hey all, We wanna stay focused on actually progressing on our projects, so… we’re starting a new post series here on the blog. We don’t know how long this series will last, but… if it helps us keep…

Before Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop and print-on-demand services, “desktop publishing” meant stencil machines and spirit duplicators. Mostly known by their brand names such as Roneo…

last week an agent filed my taxes. it signed into my hr provider, found the pdfs, read the numbers out of them, and, on the irs website, found a free filing option i didn’t know existed. it ran…

Friday 7th August 2026 Coming at you live from Horsham, day two of my long weekend in West Sussex began with a quest to buy a birthday card, which I decided to combine with an early morning…

Great day with Florian at Halde Rheinpreußen and Norddeutschland

Desk status

Earlier today I had a string of fraudulent "vinted" purchases against my AppleCard. The first two $17 and $35 transactions went through but the repeated transactions were bl ocked. Apple doesn't…

Once upon a time I called myself the Boundary Waters Blog Lady. It defined a daily role I performed for a number of years. While these days I barely blog I thought it appropriate to introduce you to…

Just three weeks after the October 4 bus upgrades , with benefits for Caroline Springs, more bus improvements are coming this Sunday, October 25. These will give some welcome coverage and…

But am hitting the silk floral department often. Never cared for exterior decor that wasn't natural, but these branches (three different) caught my eye. I'll add a few bare craggy branches to this.…

Two sections meet Seen in the street beneath our feet, the proud sections of this bridge joint are shined by wear from vehicular traffic.