My wife Irene has cancer. It is stage 4 breast cancer, so we have a lot of things to worry about despite the excellent care and good results she has seen thus far. Paramount amongst these worrisome things is the quarterly testing regimen she is on.
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My wife Irene and I watched Star Trek: Enterprise recently- the whole series, beginning to end in order. I acquired access to the Paramount Plus streaming service to facilitate this and it worked pretty well on Apple TV. Well enough that when we finished and Irene asked “what comes next?” I felt confident in saying “The original series (TOS)”. Strange to say the “next” thing after watching a show from 2003 is to watch a show from 1966, but that is the way the Star Trek series chronology works.
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In my personal experience children can be horrible creatures. I moved a lot as a kid and this indirectly contributed to me being the ‘odd man out’ at nearly every school I went to from grade 2 through grade 9. I faced nearly daily torment and, because of my own emotional dysregulation, I suffered greatly. To a great extent I stopped going to school by arranging to be sick for weeks at a time.
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I read a post by Bhagpuss in my Blaugust feed regarding the steps he went through to create an image of a book representing Krikket‘s invaluable primer. Bhagpuss’ words are an interesting read delving as they do into the pros and cons of AI versus manual image creation. It got me thinking…
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This week in Blaugust has the theme of Introducing yourself. I haven’t really done that this year, so here goes.
I came across this post from the 2003 Big Beaver homecoming event back in 2003 after chatting with my brothers Ron and Colin and sister Connie on the topic. I had vague recollections of the homecoming, but thankfully I had taken enough pictures to give me a few good memories.
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I stumbled upon a post by Ghastlymirror over on their blog about the challenges they faced acquiring physical books that meet their standards for reading material. This triggered some different yet related thoughts of my own, notably pertaining to my recent return to regular book reading.
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The smoke has settled across our valleys here in Castlegar. Exactly where the air pollution originates is a hard question to answer: there are wildfires in nearly every direction within a few hundred kilometres. But the outcome is obvious.
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I recently started reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl LitRPG series by Matt Dinniman. A little over a month ago I had never heard of these books, and now I’m nearly finished the fourth book from the series. They are definitely worth reading for people with interests that overlap with mine. Speaking of people who have overlapping interests: apparently the series is so popular that it has had an impact on the latest Comic Con and even got featured in a Variety post.
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