A Nod to Nothing

We Are Legion [We Are Bob] by Dennis E. Taylor is (I think) a three book series that was recommended to me by a co-worker. I was expecting s...

Did a Zwift race yesterday: stage 4 of the “Fresh ‘Outta 25” series. This one was London Uprising and was a two hill climb through the Lond...

Another horror novel recommended by a year end list. Short summary: weird alien (or otherwise) colonies of worms and flies that have senti...

My sister asked for a photo of the strange footprints. I told her there was no accounting for the veracity of a photo in these days of AI s...

Wednesday I finished the book Spread Me by Sarah Gailey. The recommendation came via one of those best horror of the year / 2025 lists tha...

Last night after family fondue and a Christmas eve movie, I was tried and hit the bed around 11:30. I fell asleep right away, but woke up a...

Addendum: I'm practicing some writing on the fly among other things lately, so if some of the language or grammar is messy, I've tri...

Shortest day of the year! Not that I’d really know. I spent most of it, other than a trip to the local coffee shop and back, indoors and a...

I accidentally bought a spaghetti squash. I thought it was your old butternut style squash...don’t get on my case. I know in retrospect wh...

Been a busy week. Our most exciting activity was getting new doors and windows. At 6 below F with no window blinds it’s a bit cool near t...

Been a busy weekend. Friday the family went to The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie at Theatre in the Round. Might be one of my favor...

When I watch something while I’m cycling indoors, it generally has to be fast paced. Action movies tend to have a lot going on between the ...

I’ve been on a bit of Bollywood kick lately. I’m currently re-watching Don, which I watched a long time ago. But I haven’t seen Don 2 and ...

I watched a clip on YouTube today where someone talked about racing in the Brompton race on Zwift and being absolutely knackered. I sympat...

We have a birthday and service anniversary card system at work.  It lets your team know (and your manager) that they might want to give you ...

[post-post observation...it's unusual that it inserted some formatting differences given they don't show up in my Libre Office docum...

I had Juneteenth off and I have for quite a few years.  I have some opinions about who I work for, so that's not surprising.  I took a r...

Took the day off yesterday to get in some three-person gaming down in St. Peter.  I had a basket of games and Klund had a bunch either me or...

I know I Pooteewheet and I had been going to a lot of plays and music lately.  This is just a small subset of the culture lately that in som...

Bicycling, music, beer, reading, games...you might ask, Nod, are you avoiding talking about ICE and Minneapolis and LA?  Yes, yes I am.  Bec...