Welcome to Blaugust!
Blaugust is now underway and, if I know myself, I’m busy reading the posts produced by everyone else. Keeping up with other people’s blogging is where I find my happiness in Blaugust.
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Blaugust 2026 Cometh!
The 2026 edition of Blaugust is arriving in less than two weeks. I’m not at all prepared, but I do plan on participating in a rough and ready fashion as is my usual approach. If you blog at all you should sign up and participate as much or as little as you can.
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Tailchaser’s Song- fanciful cat
I just finished re-reading Tailchaser’s song after more than thirty years. I can say without reservation that it is worth a read for anyone who loves fantasy and at least likes cats. But it is also surprisingly good at making me read poetry without complaint.
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An unwanted silence
I learned yesterday that Belghast (Mark Temple) had died just a few days ago. The shock hit me hard despite the fact that I barely knew him. Cancer took him from the world as it does so many, a year to the day after it took his wife.
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Missing time
A few months ago over the Christmas holiday season I had a mental breakdown. I documented it a bit in previous posts, but there has been a significant gap of days in my accounting.
(more…)Baby gate conundrum
Sometimes I look back on something I bought a few years ago and ask myself “why?” But today I hit a mental block that stumped both myself and my wife- we own a baby gate that neither of us could make sense of.
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This did not age well
Irene and I went to see Bill Cosby back in 2007. We enjoyed him, and I had a number of complimentary things to say about his performance. A link to this popped up at the bottom of one of my posts as a ‘related item’.
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Real tragedy of DoorDash Grandma
Trump got a delivery of fast food last week and it has been talked about in the news. The short story: it was a PR stunt to promote Trump’s reduction for taxes on tips.
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Power of Three: my trike gets a custom plate
In 2025 I had a custom Harley Road Glide trike built. I still haven’t written about that in my other blog, Geek on a Harley– one day that too will manifest. But I got a custom license plate for it, and felt talking about that plate was a bit more suited to this, my main blog.
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