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PredictIt Update

RGB’s death played a role in my next PredictIt Market. I had a few shares in “Will Trump’s next Supreme Court nominee be a woman?” I bet YES. I made that bet about a year and a half ago. The … Continue reading

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PredictIt Update

Well, here we are. The year 2020 never fails to deliver drama. A couple weeks ago I mentioned a few of my positions on PredictIt: “I’m holding 20 shares of RUTH BADER GINSBERG as the next one to leave the … Continue reading

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Dave Brubeck: Take Five

It’s Friday. Time to chill the fuck out. Pour a glass of whiskey neat, light a cigar, kick back… and just listen. You won’t do anything better with the next five minutes of your life.

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Curmudgeon and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: Part 2

I’d been ill all week. Bad air hammered me until I felt dazed. Restless, I inspected my “landscaping” from the day before. It could’ve been a notable accomplishment but I’d done it on autopilot. I’d been sloppy and haphazard. Not … Continue reading

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Curmudgeon and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: Part 1

The best part of having kids is reading them stories. My favorite was Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. If your kids (or grand kids) are of the right age, read it to them. Like Alexander, … Continue reading

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PredictIt Update

[Note: This post was written a couple weeks ago. I didn’t post it at the time because I felt we’d all had too much politics. I’m posting it now because we’ve briefly trailed off a local peak in the endless … Continue reading

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Various Distractions

So, society is still punching itself in the balls; and today’s a bigger disaster than yesterday? Ho hum. I tune out because nobody sane likes to roll about in mass tantrums. Rather than address the endless shitstorm of 2020, about … Continue reading

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Homestead Cat Update

[Editor’s note: There’s still something wrong with the comment software. I see ’em and approve them and they’re retained but not yet displayed. I’ll figure it out eventually but first I’ve got to go offline a few days while I … Continue reading

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Technical Difficulties

When folks send a comment I see it. I approve them virtually every time; usually within a day but sometimes it takes a couple days. Presumably I see all comments (I sure hope that’s true because if I’m only seeing … Continue reading

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The Cycle Of Life Births A Monarch

Lest we forget, the cycle of life continues unabated. Overly evolved monkeys that we are, we confuse our internal bullshit with literal reality. We’re prone to orbit the cult of politics. We roll like dogs in the serial panic it … Continue reading

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