What kind of a man are you? You should ask yourself this question often in your life. This is an identity-building question. It shapes how you think. Before that, it exposes how you think. It forces you to become the ideal version of yourself. This question opens so many doors for introspection that, if you are truthful, it has the potential to transform you. No amount of resolution, willpower, or commitment holds a candle to this question. Make a promise and keep it. Every time you are tempted…
We have been bouncing back and forth at Madison urban campgrounds, taking advantage of all the great restaurants and music venues. But it's been hot! With the heat index, the combined humidity and temps into the mid 90's have made it hotter than Tucson. Additionally, in the last week, the wildfire smoke from Minnesota and Canada has completely socked us in. Basically, it's like sitting at the campfire with the smoke blowing in your face all the time. With a front coming in yesterday, we have a…
Dropped by a Scooter’s Coffee here in Maumelle, Arkansas. It’s good! ☕️ WillowTree did the Scooter’s app. 😃 Unfortunately I didn’t get to work on it but boy-o-boy did the team do an amazing job!
It's Saturday, July 18 and I'm actually sort of on some kind of roll here and not overly late with with week's update. Imagine that. We received some new this week at work that pretty much backed up everything that we had expected to hear. Not really anything that I can discuss, but it's great news for us and should - in the long term - save us a decent amount of money on licenses and subscriptions. Plus, we'll get the opportunity to learn some new things which is very nice. I need to step up…
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ On the road with our youngest daughter, Bug. I’m passenger for the first couple hours because I have a difficult time waking up. 🤣 Hey, I’ve only had a single cup of coffee this morning! We’re on the road to California to visit family, Bug will visit friends while I work. Of course we’ll make the rounds to all of our old haunts just to see how things have changed in the area. Our old favorite coffee shop, Exeter Coffee Co, shuttered at the end of…
Hello, loves! What I love about programming. A few thoughts on what I do, and why I enjoy it so much. Code, I guess, is the thing I’m second-best at, maybe best. I enjoy it. I’ve had similar feelings with a few other activities, sometimes writing, sometimes drawing. I link to think that I’m fairly good at all those things, if you count the people who say “I can’t draw” and then don’t. I’m more the one who said “I can’t draw” and then went ahead and drew anyway. All those activities, but…
It’s been pretty quiet around here for the past couple of weeks. I’ve had my head down, working on projects for the 9-5 gig, and it’s been too goddamn hot to be outside doing much of anything. The dog is going mental because for various reasons she didn’t get a morning walk for most of last week. Friday morning we did go out for coffee, and when we left the house it was cool and slightly breezy, but Canada was thick in the air and the acrid taste of it was thick in the back of my throat. By the…
It has been a strange and smoke-filled week, including one night that found the sky and the downtown landscape quite apocalyptic, especially as we made our way Thursday to a back alley freight elevator accessed production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch in a West Loop art space, which was a whole lot of fun (and if I had more money, would go see again since they rotate the cast through the three main characters). Thankfully, we only were out in it for a few minutes, and by Friday, it had…
18 July 2026 ISAs are getting more complicated - here’s what is changing. The government wants to encourage retail investors to invest in growth rather than just save cash 1. So it is changing some of the rules. Cash ISA limit reduced to 12k, and you’ll pay tax on interest in non Cash ISAs Here’s a quick summary: The overall ISA contribution limits of £20,000/year for over 18s aren’t changing. But if you’re under 65, the Cash ISA will be limited to £12,000 per year. If you’re 65 or older 2, it…
I caught Nelly sleeping comfortably on the couch when I came in from reading on the balcony for a moment.
I posted this earlier this morning on Mastodon In the middle of the night I have an idea for an over due blog post: let me now cogitate and procrastinate for a while. Stew on it until the idea is overly cooked, inedible and abandoned. Or as is my won't; forgotten as my mind wanders the corridors of global madness and distraction. Let me... Here is what I was thinking about in the night. Recently I saw a post from a random person, via Bubbles I think, about the number of pages for blogs. To be…
Today’s leg of the trip takes us from Forrest City, Arkansas, to Elk City, Oklahoma. Short jaunt.
Three notes from book after using my random note workflow. You've got lots of ideas, if you spend time revisiting them. Reward and Flow In Designing Your Life the author talks about a rewarding career being full of flow states. As many people have noted, much of modern work seems designed to break flow. Slack updates, minding AI bots and flipping between them as they need attention. Multiple meetings at different points in the day...everything seems to contribute to atomizing your day in such a…
God I hate LinkedIn with a passion. Just rage wiped all my activity there. There’s a semi-subtle undercurrent of toxicity there that’s easy to miss if you’re not looking for it (humble brags, hype trains, AI bullshit among them). They interleave some nice stuff, like your friends’ real accomplishments, to keep you hooked. But for the most part the content just eats away at your brain and you kinda don’t even realize it until you actively take a step back and take a hard look.
For those new to CabbieBlog or readers who are slightly forgetful, on Saturdays I’m republishing posts, many going back over a decade. Some will still be very relevant while others have become dated over time. Just think of this post as your weekend paper supplement. What’s in a name? (31.05.13) It is the Celts who probably named the Thames. It is thought by some to come from the Old English word ‘Temese’, meaning ‘to flow turbidly’. A simple name for a river full of detritus you might think,…
I hit seven decades of living on this planet today. That’s 15 years beyond the shelf life of males on my father’s side of the family, so feeling pretty good about the accomplishment. Celebrating with grandkids and family this weekend after a joint party last week with a dear friend who shares the same birthday week. (That’s where the picture above is from.) Onward. Thanks for reading. You can subscribe to this blog if you care to. You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on…
Finally, the park living up to its name. at Park am Gleisdreieck in Berlin, Germany Filed under scraps with tags: Berlin Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜
Re: The most American thing about me is the coffee I told him I think of coffee the same way I think of beer. Is it the best tasting? No. Can it be bitter? Yes. But it's weak enough that you can drink several cups of them and get a nice buzz without overdoing it. I would never, for example, drink 5 shots of vodka, but I could easily drink 5 beers. This probably deserves a full reaction. But I am keeping it short due to children. The coffee in Puerto Rico was always MUCH stronger than American…
8631/21550We managed a very efficient day of Bath tourism, starting with a visit to the Roman Baths. I came here with a foreign student group that I was leading in the summer of 1989 and made about �£30 because the students had given me the money for adult tickets, but it turned out there were student tickets and it would have been too much trouble to work out now much to give everyone back. The same happened at HMS Victory too. I was quids in. It cost �£90 for the family so I am at…
England, predictably, crashed out of the World Cup this week in their trademark blaze of tactical insanity and, well, an inability to win which is entrenched in their DNA. But it's not all bad news for English football. In fact, I have some fantastic news: I've managed to procure an episode of Standing Room Only.For those of you who don't know, Standing Room Only was football television for people who were interested in more than just the usual 90 minutes. Rather than focusing on the action on…
The year is 1967, and you're a Navy flier in Vietnam. While flying a mission on May 18 of that year, you're shot down over North Vietnam and taken prisoner. For nearly six years, until March 4, 1973, you're shuttled from prison to prison, including the infamous "Hanoi Hilton." During that time, you've missed Laugh-In, the Smothers Brothers, and Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. You didn't see the end of The Fugitive, Peyton Place or The Ed Sullivan Show. You've never seen Monday Night…
Asiatic dayflower, Schenley Park, 11 July 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 18 July 2026 Before the smoke came to town I went on a long walk in Schenley Park and around the neighborhood this week. The captions tell the stories. Flowers and a cooperative young rabbit in Schenley Park on 11 July. Smoke-free sunrise on 12 July. A lovely tiny weed in the cobblestone cracks + a deer eating her way through a front yard on Bayard Street, 13 July. A dinosaur statue being repainted, photographed in media…
Yep, still twelve hours in the future. ✍️ Reply by email Originally posted at Nice Marmot 19:49 Saturday, 18 July 2026
Apparently it's 7:32PM. But it's really 7:32AM. ✍️ Reply by email Originally posted at Nice Marmot 19:32 Saturday, 18 July 2026
I think "blogoverse" is a better neologism than "blogosphere," though I suppose blogosphere has been around long enough that it's no longer a neologism. Anyway, Loren is feeling uninspired. This too shall pass. Other Loren is sharing photos from his trip back home. Both Lorens inspire me for their longevity. Not only in blogging but in breathing. How many octogenarian feeds do you follow? Speaking of longevity, my appointment got moved up to the 23rd of this month. That's a welcome improvement.…
Yes, the raccoon is still well and alive, one would say more than ever. I haven’t become roadkill yet on my runs, and I hope it stays that way. I’ve been off regular blogging for some time now, and I’m not expecting to be, due to personal matters. My last post was about my beginnings with running, and this one will be the continuation. I promise I’m not turning to a running blog, but because that’s what I’ve been passionate about lately, this is the topic that I write about (also it doesn’t…
You think you have a choice, but no. You don’t. Who you are is who you are and of course, there are reasons behind this same as there is a reason behind “us.” And so,such is the way you are, such is the way you were born and more, such are the reasons you exist in this world.There is a reason for everythingI know – I do not say change is unavoidableand nor is change avoidablebut man can only hit his headso many timesuntil he learns his lesson.Late or not.Lessons come with a price and prices…
I. The Height of the Mark The soil-reader came to the Vask terrace on the third morning after thaw, chalk in a tin box, an assistant to carry the ladder. Odrun stood in his doorway with Sennet beside him and watched the man measure the wet ground with a bare foot — heel to the channel, toes to the sill, the old walk, the one that could not be argued with because there was nothing in it to take hold of and argue. He paced the width of the terrace. Then he climbed the ladder and made his mark.…
Me windsurfing in the 80s STATUS: Family Reunion, today TODO: Get through the reunion. I like everyone, but it's way too much peopleing I've really gone and over-complicated things now. ✍️ Reply by email
