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It is incredibly liberating to pull up the stats for the blog and see that zero visitors have come by. It's the equivalent of living alone, coming out of the shower and making coffee or having a snack, completely naked without a care in the world.
Every once in a while, I'll get this sensation that is calming and reassuring. I notice that my thoughts are clear, perfectly aligned with the universe and everything makes sense. I mean it doesn't, the universe is chaos, but the chaos seems perfectly reasonable. In these moments I wish I could express the sensation to …
Eddie is a good dog. He's sweet and easy going, albeit occasionally belligerent. But even when he's less than cooperative, he isn't nasty about it. He really just wants to hang out and snooze, get some snacks and occasionally go outside and smell stuff. He's a pretty good roommate.
Like other fans of the epic tale, I have followed the on again, off again trials and tribulations of trying to bring the story of Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, to the big screen. It's been talked about, written about and speculated about for years. Then, it finally happened. The die was cast, the money …
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You know, for the longest time I have used the remarkable medium called the blog incorrectly. I started blogging because I love to write and it gave me a place to do that. Then I got pleasure from making cool websites, picking themes and creating clever URLs. But then I was caught up in the …
I bitched and moaned, but in the end, I paid up. I couldn't find a more affordable way to host my blog than keeping it right here on WordPress and paying them to let me use my own domain. Ain't nothing free in this world friends and neighbors.
For the first time since I got my original cholesterol test in flight school in 1989, my cholesterol is in "normal" limits. An endocrinologist at the VA specializing in lipidology (it's a thing) put me on a combination of two meds to try to get the numbers to be prettier. I've been studying this issue …
I had to get rid of The Pursuit of Strength as a domain because it was annoying me. I picked up a nice new domain for only $1.99 a year: joesblog.website and was going to map it to this blog, but now it turns out WordPress won't allow me to map anymore on their free …
Reading the news of the day, dealing with the obstacles one must face to earn a living, interacting with the multitudes each day, facing the mundane yet irritating travails of existence can challenge one's sense of optimism and contentment. At times a Herculean effort is required to prevent a descent into dread and pessimism for …
Facebook is among the most commonly visited websites in the world, and we're not talking about just social media sites, but over the entire internet. YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Reddit are right behind them when it comes to social media sites specifically. We are spending a lot of time on these sites sharing. Some people …
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