This is my 400th blog post. That's pretty big. I started here on WordPress back in June 2011 after leaving Xanga. I don't write every day like I did for years on Xanga, but I try to put something out there on a fairly regular basis. Of course, over the past year or so, many …
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,900 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to …
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I know, I know, I haven't actually blogged here in a long time. It's been mostly book reviews. But that's what you people like, right? So anyway, this week was the 14 week anniversary of my dad's death. And I finished up a grief support group I had been in for eight weeks. I'm not …
Prometheus Road by Bruce Balfour My rating: 2 of 5 stars I got to page 229 of this 320 page book and gave up. It just got too silly. I tried, I really did, but while I like dystopian novels, this one had odd problems from the beginning. Tom Eliot lives in a agriculture-based commune …
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Well, I see Xanga is still fighting for it's survival. I guess that might be a good thing, but I do think it's a losing effort. They've extended their deadline for continued existence by two weeks to the end of July. They've raised 38K to keep them going, although they still need close to 65K, …
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