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January 30, 2022

A mild case of existential dread

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COVID is still a thing here in Arizona. I'm laying low in the Bat Cave, hiding out from omicron, even though I know, as a bleeding heart...
January 23, 2022

What did I just say? No recollection

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  In the past two days, two people have asked me if I'm really a chronic malcontent. I've been complaining in this space since, what...
January 16, 2022

Delinquent neurons are not apologetic

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The brain is back. As much as it ever was, anyway, which is good news for me, out here alone in the short branches of the wild west. It'...
January 09, 2022

Who am I and what just happened?

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Poor old Google can't keep up. I'm opening and closing several web accounts using multiple log-on identities on two different comput...
January 02, 2022

Let me take you to noisy town

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Happy new year, Blogbots, all six of you. How are you doing? I hope you are staying safe in this stupid cold season. Yes, cold. Tucson temps...
December 27, 2021

The Chronic Malcontent cautiously connects

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Happy holidays, Blogbots. May you have as much joy as you can stand during this stupid, cold, virus-infested, consumer-obsessed season. I...
December 19, 2021

Your quest for control is futile

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You’ll be relieved to hear, after two weeks of me camping out of an ice chest in the Bat Cave, the maintenance crew carted away the malfunct...
December 12, 2021

Change my attitude or change my situation

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Once again my week overflows with blessings and curses. Among the blessings, I count a quiescent check engine light and the absence of littl...
December 05, 2021

Between here and there

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When last we spoke, I mentioned that my nemesis, the check engine light, had returned to disturb my peaceful cat-sitting gig in Albuquerque....
November 28, 2021

Closer to the edge

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Howdy from Albuquerque. As I sidled along tidy sidewalks next to cinder block walls and wooden fences in the neighborhood today, cold in the...
November 21, 2021

Every moment is a new adventure

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It's 449 miles between here and Albuquerque, a drive of approximately six and a half hours, or more like eight hours, the way I drive. I...
November 14, 2021

On becoming a rock star

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Have fun staying poor. Apparently that is a meme in the bitcoin world, a member of which I am not, in case you were wondering. Selling virt...
November 07, 2021

Creating a new reality

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Darkness falls fast in the desert after the sun sets. Twilight doesn't linger. During the day, I imagine the little dudes snoring in the...
October 31, 2021

Not feeling so OK at the OK Corral

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I keep returning to a theme—the idea that life is neither all good nor all bad. After trying to weigh the good stuff against the bad stuff, ...
October 24, 2021

Gaslit by a gas cap

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I talked with a friend on the phone tonight. It's a welcome distraction to listen to someone else's problems so I don't have to ...
October 17, 2021

Dragged into the future

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Do you ever wish you could freeze time? Shut off the clock, silence the calendar, you know, take a vacation from the daily detritus of life ...
October 10, 2021

Growing a pear

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The old suburban farmhouse in which I did most of my growing up had a Bartlett pear tree just outside the back door. Every few years we coll...