1st coffee, blueberry bagel w/butter + mixed fruit jelly Passat oil change Picking up Gottman: "7 Principles for Making Marriage Work" from ~75% salad greens, refried beans, artichoke hearts, chickpeas, kalamata olive and asiago cheese, tossed together w/olive oil and red wine vinegar I posted a blawg update from the waiting room, and then when I got home my site fell off the interwebs. My first thought was to connect it to the game show host executive's demand for the hosting provider's records r... (...more)

100mg pill-form caf, 30g Rockin Refuel, 1 Publix hoagie roll

started consolidating Lancer maint/repair history to spreadsheet so I can discard the paper

I subscribe to my previous therapist's email newsletter, which often leads me back to her blog. I respect her thinking. I suspect it's colored by a right-wing bias when she writes things like "our culture is stuck in an entitled victim mindset" though. The other day I learned the "pink triangle" prisoners were left behind in the Nazi concentration camp liberations. Gays were considered sex offenders, and the Allies weren't much more accepting than the Axis. (It was 1952 already when British war hero cod... (...more)

To "list of things that make me choke up", add "pic of Frank visiting Chris in CO". What even is this feeling? Sentimentality? Joy? Connection? (My youth receding to a dot in the ever-expanding abyss of time? LOL)

I'm not feeling the name "codger", so that's likely to be temporary. Win10 has virtual desktop features but they're cumbersome compared to Virtuawin. I liked the idea of different backgrounds per desktop but it's no trade-off for being able to middle-click a window titlebar and send it to another desktop, or Ctrl-mouse to the edge of the screen to reach the next desktop. From the very start I felt hampered by the single desktop, so Virtuawin was my first utility install. Discovered the touchpad was p... (...more)