Rachel Carrington IM’d me on Facebook this morning to let me know she just finished reading DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal and has written a review. She asked for a few pix to illustrate it, so I sent them to her. In her IM she said she loved the book but of course […]
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THIS IS NUTS!!! For 14 years at Upwork (ever since it was Elance back in the day), I have been a Premier Provider or Top-rated Provider. That changed yesterday when my rating fell unexpectedly to 89%. (It needs to be 90% or better to be deemed Top-Rated.) I’m sitting here scratching my
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Damaged Fence (Before) Fixed Fence (After) Hunter (my cat) approves. He supervised and “helped” you know. He always does. After taking the above “after” pictures, I fortified and straightened the waves out of the crumpled fences using miscellaneous garden stakes and tool handles we had on hand around here, so
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Lisa and I are heading back up to Orting-Buckley again today. This time I’ll be on tough, brand new tires. I’m eager to try them out. They’re Hemisphere Armadillo Reflect tires, “a modern, versatile, and durable trekking tire with tough puncture protection and bold tread that delivers control on loose surfaces.” Its “serial center
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OK, prepare to laugh – perhaps uncomfortably, BUT I hope uproariously — as you read this one! It’s about bike seats and private parts… I have a bike seat that fits me very well. I’m broad-beamed so I have a broad-beamed bike seat that keeps me from chaffing (most of the time) down under…
On Bike Seats that Don’t Fit Right and Human Anatomy Read More »
On misgendering: Yeah, I do it, too, even with myself on occasion. Yesterday when Lisa and I were driving to the bike shop to get my bike tires replaced (I got a flat on the Orting Trail; more on that in a minute, since I’ve now introduced it as a topic), she confessed to
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I just looked at my writing income so far this month. It has reached FULL-MONTH pre-COVID levels already. I hope it continues!!! All of the recent client testimonials have been terrific, too, even though I didn’t quite meet expectations for one of them (more on that shortly). And because I didn’t, early this
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Where’s your happy place? Have you identified it yet? Is it the same place as your best friend’s? I’ve discovered that mine isn’t. And that’s okay. But I need to keep that in mind so we don’t butt heads. As many interests as Lisa and I share (goats, biking, learning,
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I rode from Orting to South Prairie and thence to Buckley (almost twice between S.P. and Buckley) between 8:35 and 12:20 today. OMG! What a gorgeous, bucolic ride it is between South Prairie and Buckley! It was awe-inspiring! My plan, when I started out this morning, was to ride between Orting and South
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“Theydies and gentlethem” — a friend just spotted this phrase online somewhere, reposted it, and I LOVE IT! Yes, yes, and yes! It is all inclusive; no one on the gender spectrum feels excluded or unacknowledged. Whoever came up with this greeting has the undying gratitude of multitudes of individuals. They
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