When I first started this blog I didn’t really have a goal. I just wanted somewhere to post things as an outlet that wasn’t found by doom scrolling on social media. Far away from the madding crowd, so to speak; a space where words can breathe. An outpost or last bastion of word assembly…
Nearly everyone orders from Amazon these days. Some people think that Amazon IS the internet. We order from there because they stock nearly everything and you can get most things the next day. We’re all lazy bastards that like to click a button and have someone magically appear from a van with the thing you…
When I was a kid, I read more than my share of fantasy books. You’d often find me walking through a wardrobe into Narnia or imagining what it was like to cast my own spell. Kids do imagination better than adults ever could and I was all about the magic I could create with my…
I did a thing! The other day I designed a new Twitter header for a profile I post on quite regularly, but have no intention of developing a meaningful following on. I would be somewhat disappointed if I ever got more than 100 followers, because I treat it more like an online journal or brain…
There’s a saying: “The good die young.“ And in Ricky Hatton’s case, it certainly applies. You didn’t even have to be a fan of boxing to warm to Ricky as he was the people’s champion. Outside the ring he was one of the boys, never taking himself too seriously and when he was boxing you…
Years ago I was at a boring work team-bonding week. Well, most of it was boring apart from a bit I always remember about levels of communication. Did you know that non-verbal communication is often considered the highest level between humans. A quick raise of the eyebrow, a change of expression and even micro-expressions are…
I was looking through some old messages earlier (looking up some birthday dates). On occasion I read things I’ve written and I think to myself, “Wow, did I write this? It’s very random.” This is one such example of something I wrote in a reply: “This is worrying because at this rate I’ll be thinking…
Turns out washing machines aren’t losing them… they’re recruiting for a sock utopia If you happen to have a very powerful telescope with the mind bending ability to do things no other telescope can do, then you should peer into it and I think you’ll find that there’s a parallel universe made entirely of lost…