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…
Once again I’ve gathered some ‘end of August’ numbers illustrating the nuts and bolts of my blogging experience. I’ve definitely proven the adage that you get out of life what you put into it: my low-energy involvement with Blaugust 2025 is reflected in my rather weak statistics for the month. But I still feel I got more than I deserved in terms of ideas, support, and inspiration.
This is my greatly overdue response to the Blaugust ‘community builder’ “Low Stakes Hot Take” challenge.
I’m a man. Men generally grow more hair on their face than women. Sometimes they style or trim that facial hair in ways that please themselves or others.
Men who are not deeply interested in their appearance do not spend significant time every day making it *look* like they started growing a beard… and then stopped before it finished. Yet Hollywood wants us to believe that this ‘half-grown’ look is totally a thing that non-fussy men do. And that really frosts my cookies.
I retired on May 31, 2024. That means over a year has passed and I am still happy with the decision. Irene and I have had some tough times during the past year that I’ll touch on in this post. But the absence of the pressures of work has made it a lot easier to bounce back.
But my post-retirement lifestyle is not the active and adventurous, check-off-your-bucket-list thrill that most retirement advisors seem to recommend. And I guess I’m here to say that, for me at least, that is perfectly okay.
The first week of Blaugust is over, but I'm still feeling like I'm just starting this event up. So I'll fall back on the writing prompts for the first week…
I decided this spring that my non-stop race towards morbid obesity needed to be addressed. I have been trying vainly for a couple of years to slow the process down by gradually increasing my activity levels and making a comically unsuccessful attempt to reduce my calorie intake. But it seemed as if my own willpower was insufficient to the task: the numbers on the scale kept going up. I made the decision to try a medical intervention via the modern ‘miracle’ of GLP-1 agonists.
Blaugust 2025 is here- rejoice! Blaugust is a celebration of blogging and an encouragement for bloggers to... well, blog! There are some changes this year: Belghast has handed the reins…
