Hot n Cold…Cold n Hot

Here I wax ecstatic about the weather and how different it was 40 years ago when I was a kid. Old man yells at clouds sort of thing.

Mid-March

Hard to believe it’s nearly mid-March in the year of our Lord 2026. We enjoyed 70 degree weather over the last few days, and today we’re back down to 29 degrees. Sunday will be a high in the 60s, then Monday we’ll be back into the 30s. So those folks sensitive to the up and […]

Long Winter

Winter usually doesn’t affect me mentally. I don’t get the winter blues or anything like that. If anything, I just get tired of how gross the outside becomes; ground and roads muddied from melting snow and ice, brown grass, and all the debris that falls throughout winter in the yard that I’m too lazy to […]

Pisces Birthday(s)

21 years ago my wife and I had left an appointment at the OBGYN, what would be our final OB appointment before our “son in the oven” was to be introduced into a strange and quickly declining world. But it was 2005, and at that time things seemed to be moving along nicely. We had […]

Took Some Days Off, So I thought I’d get Sick

At this point now it seems like it’s a given that if I take some time off I’m going to get sick. It’s the vacation playbook; take a couple days off for a nice 4-day weekend and 24 hours in I’m going to start feeling like crap. It was the case last week, as I […]

Check-In : Extended-Release Anxiety

Man, this week has not been the best. Started out Sunday where I had that weird little twinge in the pit of my stomach that usually indicates anxiety is just around the corner. Ended up going to the Y and walked three miles which helped that twinge. It went away, thankfully. But once I got […]

Wishful Thinking(Monday Thoughts)

I had a dream late last week that I’d gotten a call at work from someone wanting to hire me. It was the company that we currently share a building with. This medical company out of Kentwood, MI actually bought our facility when my employer was planning on closing and moving our manufacturing to Costa […]

Bitter Cold Everywhere

It was another tragic and infuriating weekend here in the US. If you saw the news you would have heard about a 37-year old VA nurse who was unarmed by ICE, then as he lay on the ground after a mob of these so called “law enforcement officers” beat him, pepper sprayed him, and then […]

Long Week, Quiet Weekend, Another Throat Punch From Jack Frost, Another Brick In The Wall

It’s been a long week. The cross training continues at work, with my second week learning the many laborious facets of shipping. I’m done already with this crap, and there’s still more to be dumped upon me. My workmate of nearly 27 years told me he’s retiring May 1st. Said he can’t do this cross […]

It’s Cold. Stay In. Drink Coffee. Make Art.

Just a little reminder that we’re going thru a bit of a cold spell here in the Midwest. Supposed to last through the week. Currently in the pre-Dawn hours the windchill is making it feel in the negatives. This is not conducive to wanting to leave my bed, let alone my house. Yesterday I spent […]