Author: robertjames1971

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Get a Job, Ya Bum

What’s up with the daily prompt not pulling in the question? Epic fail!

The question is this:

What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in?

I literally answered this in a daily prompt a few days ago when I wrote something about taking a risk to change careers. Oh good. Repetitiveness.

How about instead of rewriting the previous post I just give a list of careers that I considered at one point or another during various points in my life. The fun part would be trying to figure out which possible careers were things I honestly considered, and which were ones that I thought up when I was four years old or something. Fun, eh?

  • Musician, including possibly a performing musician, a studio musician, a freelance song writer, an ad jingle writer, a teacher
  • A photographer, including… I haven’t a clue
  • Eye doctor
  • Writer, including short stories mostly but maybe novels too?
  • Truck driver, but only on weekends
  • Paralegal
  • Garbage man
  • Fireman
  • Career college student
  • Third baseman for the Boston Red Sox
  • Astronaut
  • Astronomer
  • Physicist
  • University professor

Okay, there you go. A few career paths I either used to be interested in, am interested in, or was pre-school aged and thought would be fun. It’s up to you to decide which is which.

Have fun!

Vivaldi for iOS, At Last!

Finally! After ages of using Vivaldi as my browser of choice on my laptop, there is an iOS version of Vivaldi that I can use on my iPhone! I just installed it and synced it and now all the stuff I save off on my MacBook Pro should be available on my iPhone. Now I just have to put it onto my iPad. Thanks for the memories, Google Chrome for iOS but your day appears to have come to an end at last!

My Specialty

Daily writing prompt
What food would you say is your specialty?
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My food specialty? I don’t have one. Boneless chicken breasts are my usual go-to dish. Prior to going through weight loss surgery I usually paired it with a quinoa and stir fried veggies thing. Now it’s usually some sort of potato and maybe some broccoli, all cooked in an air frier.

Nothing special. Nothing you’d call a specialty either. Just a few things I know how to prepare and therefore prepare them all the time. When my wife gets sick of something I find something else to cook.

For a while, I was trying to make Tewksbury Tweets my culinary thing. Those are a kind of no-bake cookies. They have tons of sugar in them so post-gastric bypass I have only made them once or twice. They are a sort of holiday gathering treat thing now. I still like making them, but I can’t eat them myself. I promise, that’s not a bad thing. Only my taste buds disagree.

Another possibility from my distant past would be dry Cheerios. Oh yes, a bowl full of Cheerios without any milk. That was the stuff. Pair it with a great big bottle of Coca~Cola and you’re in heaven. I looked at the nutritional information on a Cheerios box recently and I can still eat them. I just have to keep the serving size small. Maybe one of these days I’ll try them and see if my stomach still likes them.

So in summation, the answer to the question what is my food specialty is… nothing, really.

Perfect Timing

I’ve talked a lot over the last few months about my epically absurd Doctor Who binge watch. I started watching the current 13 season series back in June or July, and shortly after also started watching the massive 26 season original series as well. I finished the new show pretty quickly, but the old show is so vast that I am still going.

The reason I started on this ridiculousness was my step kids. They had both become fans of the new show over the last year or so and they inspired me to dig into it. Knowing that the show is currently on hiatus until the 60th anniversary in November made me want to see if I could get through all 436142757 episodes (approximately) before the first of the three anniversary episodes aired.

I think I am going to make it. I’m down to the last four episode serial of season 21. Just minutes ago I watched the fifth doctor regenerate into the sixth doctor. I only have numbers six and seven to go before I am through with the original show, and then there is number eight in a one off made of TV movie. After that I will be finished. I am kinda thinking about giving the David Tennant episodes of the new show a second watch, seeing as he is coming back for the anniversary. That could be interesting to see it all in a new light, you know?

As it turns out, earlier today the BBC announced the dates that the three 60th anniversary episodes will air. The first is November 25th. That is a nice coincidence as both of my step kids will be home that night. We have our planned family Thanksgiving (celebrated) that day. The kids will be at their dad’s on the actual Thanksgiving day so we’re doing an alternate date in our house. Looks like we’ll get to see David Tennant’s triumphant return that night as well. Talk about fortuitous timing, eh? You might even say it’s sort of a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff, right?