Category: Musings
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Changing keys
Part of the reason for this post is to test out the new keyboard. I’d had a multi-device bluetooth keyboard, due to the way my current workspace is set up, and ran all the things off of it. Until… it died over the weekend. I was too busy to do more than poke at it,…
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Contemplation
I’ve been a bit fuzzy-brained today. We had plumbers in this morning, which was good because a minor problem got solved before it became a major one. It was something I could have done, in theory, but the First Reader suggested we call in the pros. For one thing, they would be able to spot…
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The Kitchen Towel
When we moved into this house, it had all sorts of quirky bits of storage, and so many hooks. So. Many. Also, mirrors, nails in the walls… a lifetime of setting things just so to suit the person who lived here from 1950 until 2020. Overlaying our wants and needs on that has been… interesting.…
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Big Purses
“I’m going to pack my small purses,” I was holding a red one, about the size of two hardback books cover to cover. He eyes it, and grins a little. “That’s only a small purse to you, my love.” “Relative to my usual?” I gesture at my Bag of Holding, on the table nearby. I…
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Frayed Not
I’m a frayed knot. In addition to being the punchline of a joke, that about sums up how I feel at the moment. There’s a lot of moving parts, and I am trying very hard to align all of them and frankly I keep failing at that. Which worries me, because my screwups have the…
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Ready to go Home
Yesterday I didn’t procrastinate my morning away. This morning, I’m thanking my past self for her consideration. The kitchen is clean, the living area is tidy, and last night I collapsed into a made bed. I do need to run a load of laundry, but it’s not pressing. I’m free to relax. Which is what…
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Buckle Up Buttercup
This last period of my life has been a rollercoaster. From being told just about six weeks ago to anticipate being unemployed in a month with my company closing, to landing a new job yesterday. You may have heard the ‘bing!’ of my being told I should feel free to move about the country. That…
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God Bless Texas
Started off the long weekend rolling into 2022 by getting out of work early and going for a walk. I could do this, because… I live in Texas now. In NH I’d have had to strap on snowshoes to take the equivalent walk. OH? Likely to have been cold and rainy and I don’t do…
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It’s Friday
I’ve got about ten minutes before I need to toss some food in a sack, slop coffee in a cup, and go. Funny how it is. It’s not that I’m not looking forward to being at work. I have some good puzzles to work through while I’m there, and the possibility of being handed more…
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Week of Words
It’s been an eventful week. Last weekend, I was at a convention. This weekend? Dinner with the gang… and we now have a new name, and a website to organize the shenanigans (ok, as much as we’ll ever be organized) and I am working hard on a project that evolved from funsies to ‘oh, cr*p…
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Excited State
In atomic theory, an electron can be in one of several states. For this, I’m thinking about two… the ground state, and the excited state. When the electron is struck by a bit of light, it gets knocked out of it’s usual low-energy orbit, and goes as far from it’s center as it can…
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Suspense and Endurance
The passage of time is one of the strange phenomena we humans make up in our own minds. It is a measurable, verifiable event. We use the slow dance of atoms to gauge how time passes, in the modern era. Once, it was the dance of the planets and stars overhead that gave us…