Monthly Archives: December 2018
Happy New Year!
This was a black December for me but I am nearly through with it. Thanks for everyone’s support. My violent nightmares have stopped for now and life is livable again. The coming year presents itself with a mess of worrisome … Continue reading
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Tagged Mendota, New Year, Quartzsite, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Sci-Fi Caper, video, YouTube
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“I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon.”
Here is a great article by Austin Murphy, author and longtime Sports Illustrated senior writer. He penned thousands of articles for Sports Illustrated over 33 years, 140 of them cover stories. He interviewed five presidents. He now delivers packages for … Continue reading
Holiday Greetings From Eight Years Ago
Thinner, paler, different glasses. Shorter hair. More cats. Happy Holidays everyone!
Alley Cat Allies
This is a picture of Skippy, from the front of the holiday card Alley Cat Allies (external link) sent this year. This non-profit specializes in helping feral cats, now often called community cats. The policy they advocate is called trap, neuter, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alley Cat Allies, cats, Christmas Card, community cats, feral cats, non-profit, Skippy, Trap-Nueter-Return-TNR
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Wallpaper* magazine
I first discovered Wallpaper* magazine in 1999. It was a thin volume then, all about design. “The Stuff That Surrounds You.” I think they now say, “The Stuff That Refines You.” It has grown into a massive tome, hundreds of … Continue reading
Informed Delivery by The US Postal Service
Informed Delivery is a USPS service (external link) that e-mails you when letter-sized mail or packages are going to be arriving soon. I think it may be only first-class letters but any package should trigger an e-mail. Quite an interesting … Continue reading
Storm Clouds Blowing Over?
I’m feeling like returning to writing. The last bout of violent nightmares has passed and the remaining dreams, depressing and distressing though they may be, are tolerable. Previously, before I halted my psychoactive medicine and my sleep medications, my nightmares … Continue reading
New Post At SouthwestRockhounding.com
Going to Tucson this February to see The Big Show? Better read this post: https://southwestrockhounding.com/2018/12/15/tucson-and-parking/
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Tagged gem and mineral show, parking, the big show, traffic, Tucson
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The Tonopah Historic Mining Park
The Tonopah Historic Mining Park Foundation has begun fund raising to physically secure what’s known as the Silver Top Headframe, one of three located at the Mining Park. A headframe is the signature feature of any large mine, permitting the … Continue reading
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Tagged Central Nevada Museum, gold and silver strike, Historic Mining Park Foundation, Hometown Pizza, Mizpah Hotel, Reno to Las Vegas, rural nevada, Tonopah, tonopah historic mining park, US 95, Whitney's Bookshelf
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