Category: Daily Life

Gave everything

Just sent my callsign and the entire alphabet and ten digits without having to look a my cheatsheet! I’m finally getting 15 words per minute Morse code.

But I’ve got no one to scream to

The dream: I’m prepared and can feed my family for two weeks or months without leaving the house

The reality: I’m skipping lunch because there is no sliced sandwich meat, no jelly, no peanut butter, and my bread is in the form of expired bread flour and dead yeast

Ps. But I do have candy bars since we had zero trick or treaters

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.

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 psyche of the Internet knows me better than my therapists.

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.

Listening to my amateur radio and picking up conversations in Spanish. This thrills me!

I don’t always tell people I use fountain pens but there are signs

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.

Touch the puppet head

It’s been a struggle but I found 5am again!

Simply too much to do to be starting the day any later.