Introducing myself
This week in Blaugust has the theme of Introducing yourself. I haven't really done that this year, so here goes. Who is Kelly Adams? I'm a 62 year old man…
Throwback: Big Beaver Homecoming- 2003
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…
Getting back into book reading: changing perspective
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…
Wished-for superpower: selective flawless memory
The Blaugust Group Project for today is: There are a lot of things I could ask for and, on a different day, I would probably choose something else. But for…
Smoke in the Valley
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…
Dungeon Crawler Carl- a newcomer’s perspective
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…
Automatic updates
I like to consider myself constructively lazy. I'll put in a lot of work so I can do less work in the future, particularly if that work is boring and…
Tummy troubles
My state of health has been a bit rough for the past twelve months or so. I had severe sciatic pain, then a mental breakdown, and following that some nearly…
Retirement: what I miss about work
Roger (Mr. Peril) over on Contains Moderate Peril wrote about the things he misses in retirement from his work experience. Much of what Roger had to say felt consistent with…
Debugging comments: Nope, its Dam Spam
I previously wrote about some adventures I was having with visitors to my site being blocked while attempting to post comments. I had a hypothesis at the time that the…