In the wider world, it has been a year of self-inflicted chaos. At home, there’s been a fair amount of chaos as well, for very different reasons. On a technical end, two computers had failures that took valuable hard drives[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Life
Every year, I express a hope that things will be better next year, but it’s really hard to see that happening right now. That said, I am in temporary good financial shape thanks to my vacation time being cashed out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This year has been mixed at best. Costs have gone up all over, while household income is at best flat, so financial difficulties have gotten fairly bad. This led to me finally letting go the storage unit we’ve been renting.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Overall, 2022’s been a good year. At least if you’re not involved in a land war in Asia. Personal savings is down a bit over the year (thank you rising prices), but the overall household continues to gain stability. Fox[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, overall, I certainly need to rate this year as better than the previous one, just like nearly everyone else in the world. However, I do have a self-made problem or two. The problem I’ve given myself is a lack[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, it’s a good thing that I don’t generally talk about the world at large in these posts, because I could probably be here for most of a year talking about all the various kinds of crazy this last year[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smudge and I both enjoy soundtracks for a lot of our music listening. I don’t have a lot of music interest in my background, and have only been to a couple of very small concerts for any real live listening.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Overall, it’s been a good year here. Work, for once, is being a bit more stressful, but hopefully will sort itself out. I’m carless, as my old car finally had a problem I wasn’t willing to fix. But thanks to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well… it’s certainly been a year. At least it never felt like three months flashed by without warning. Financially, I’m probably a bit behind where I started. Which is a shame, since most of the year things were improving for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My main destop machine has been Horo for just about eight years now. The primary parts were inherited from a friend, and I figure the processor is probably close twelve years old. Until about six months ago, this has been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
