Frankly it has been a wild ride. I never expected to make it this long. I’m at a crossroads. I am not beginning a new chapter in my life but beginning a complete new volume. Many blank pages to fill.
Author: Doug McCaughan
Do what you love
They say “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.”
If feel like that is missing a second part. Something like “and you will never be fat because you’ll never have money for food.”
The algorithms have my number
The psyche of the Internet knows me better than my therapists.
Time to practice what I preach
For years I’ve said, “Money is a tool. Time is a commodity.” Yet I continue to trade time for money without putting my money to work to get more time. This working for a living really steals time away from the things I want to be doing.
Ham en español
Listening to my amateur radio and picking up conversations in Spanish. This thrills me!
I lost the game
Republican Friends Please Read This
Dear Republican friends,
Before you vote, take a good hard look at your party. It doesn’t exist anymore. Today’s Democrat party is closer in values to the GOP you romanticize. Your Republican party has been usurped by a group of treasonous crooks who do not understand how to govern.
Please consider voting blue down the ballot. Send a message to your party that you want to return to your conservative values and do not support the MAGA extremism.
There is no Democrat versus Republican ballot. Republicans have been replaced with MAGA terrorists. Do not allow this to continue.
Fountain pens
I don’t always tell people I use fountain pens but there are signs
From the mouths of babes
Cathy: “May I ask you a question?”
Me: “Sure.”
Cathy: “Were your pants unzipped the whole time you were out and about?”
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In other news, I’m not allowed out of the house any more.
Doing the dumb things I gotta do
Touch the puppet head
Let the day begin!
It’s been a struggle but I found 5am again!
Simply too much to do to be starting the day any later.
Protected: I’m done
Protected: The thing about aging
Dig yourself out of that hole
At some point, the hole becomes so deep you give up on trying to dig out of the hole instead focusing on just staying above the water coming in from the bottom.
Basement archeology
Just threw away a copy of Psychology Today that has sat upon my desk unread since April 2010. Yay me!