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I fear my productive, engaged life is on the wane.  I have been truly struggling in my day job like never before.  It is not entirely my fau...

My Acura has nearly 170k miles on it.  I had a tricky start with it; it actually stranded me at one point with a known power steering issue....

Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom -- My first impression is that the writing of the script for this movie may have been crowdsourced to children ...

I picked this up because it was mentioned in a couple of forgotten online comments somewhere as an unknown classic.  I don't remember th...

I'm afraid I have to bail on this month.  I really hate doing that.  I think I've only done it a handful of times in over 20 years, ...

My memory is uncertain but I think I started blogging in 1999, which means I've been at this for a quarter-century this year.  Nobody ac...

If you've been following my posts for the last few years, nothing in this article in the Guardian about the decline of quality televisi...

Triggered by both the Lions playoff game against the 49ers (the chosen team of my SO) and this posting of photos by Scott Alexander , which ...

Despite living my entire life in Michigan, I hit a deer with my car for the first time. It wasn't a hard hit.  The only thing on my car ...

Nostalgia: remember when the changing of the year meant you would mis-date the checks you wrote for a couple of weeks?  Now our electronic p...

Like many, I struggle with the holidays.  Not with getting depressed, as many do.  It's that my feelings and approach to them just don...

I've been keeping up with two shows that have some similarities, and similar problems.  Fargo is a new season of the highly stylized ser...

Nothing too important but if you're passing the time scrolling, you'll find some interesting stuff here. Snippets 2023: 52 Snippets ...

Well, I spent Thanksgiving weekend sick in Omaha, which sounds awful, but I was grateful.  I was with the SO's family, including three h...