..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>>
Month: December 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>>