..making promises at the end of the old year, for the new year, to myself, and keep them, yep, tried and failed. Yet sometimes, for whatever reason, whether associated with a new year, new beginning or clean slate kinda feeling, those do lead … somewhere. Making it a new start? Doing a (light/heavy) reboot? A kick-my-butt symbolic fresh start? A page turn? I’ll speak for…read more>>
Year: 2015
Not a Christmas Carol, but a Christmas story
I started morning of December 24th by getting up much too early and almost immediately, before completely woken up, bravely (or foolishly) hopped on an attempt to repair our well used Moccamaster coffee machine. In retrospect I cannot rule out the possibility that the project would have gone a lot smoother had I done three things prior to start-up; 1)…read more>>
A piece of advice; don’t (always) listen to advices
Well, I won’t be categorical about it. Sometimes an advice might save you time, trouble and money. However, at other times it might actually be better not taking an advice. Even if that means learning a few things one in hindsight perhaps could have done without. It of course all depends, on many factors and variables. As for…read more>>
Mild weather and parked motorcycle syndrome (PMS)
It’s been about two months now since I parked the MC. Have no room in the garage so it was sent on winter storage. Much MUCH too soon. With one of the mildest November months and early December perhaps ever, at least in my lifetime, it feels all wrong. However one explains (away) climatic change, signs, weather and trends, whilst seen…read more>>
Gun nutters are everywhere, a plague
Mass shootings might perhaps not lead to higher number of victims (per capita) in the US than elsewhere on the planet. But the frequency is high, among the highest. Check out this page. Yes USA is a big country by size and population. So numbers will be high. If you look at statistics and take into account size of the population my…read more>>
Paris Friday 13th – cruelty and evil knows no boundaries
Yesterdays terror took place in the lovely, fantastic city of Paris. A place many of us have been to, more than once. We have walked its streets, been a part of its pulsating life, experienced the culture and history. Then shock and terror, obviously planned and thoughtfully orchestrated. Yesterdays attack also hit the hearts of millions…read more>>
Then it was this about not giving up
… very important. Kids must be taught this at home, as well as in school. In fact, kids should be taught this from kindergarten and up, daily, weekly and monthly. Perseverance and/or persistence can be seen as a quality, or an ability. If you don’t have perseverance to the extent you’d like, well … it can developed. Even the most impatient of…read more>>
A treshhold mile, along a road named Procrastination
I find myself camping there, every once in a while. Somewhere along the road named (or called) Procrastination. That road might, for lack of better examples, occasionally look like this… Come to think of it, the above scenery (or scenario) is a lot more interesting. It’s a problem related to some particular mundane tasks and, regrettably, some (dear)…read more>>
Sometimes change feels good, sometimes it feels bad
“There’s nothing new under the sun”, a saying goes. Astrophysics teaches us, if you stay reasonably updated, that with the ability to gaze deeper and deeper into the universe, i.e. farther and farther back in time, we can see galaxies being born, stars being born. We observe it, all the way back to the beginning of the…read more>>
The world might need rocket scientists
… but I am not one of them. Nope, just a someone who might, occasionally, succeed in offering a healthy perspective, whether it’s about life, culture, politics, science, religion, technology, or something else. We’re an army out here, on the web, camping alongside the information super highway, a undefinable group of reasonably smart people, who every so often have something…read more>>