(Not Quite) Daily Haiku for You #75

I’m in Thanksgiving holiday planning mode today. Can I turn it into a haiku for you?

Holiday planning,
Managing all those schedules*.
What are we doing?

*Okay, does schedule have two syllables or three? I asked Jen and she didn’t know either. I then asked Google and the answer is apparently both.

‘Schedule’ can be three syllables or two syllables.  The first syllable is stressed:  sche-, sche-.  So it can either be ‘schedule’ (sche-du-le) or simply ‘schedule’ (sche-dule). 

https://rachelsenglish.com/pronounce-schedule/#:~:text=’Schedule’%20can%20be%20three%20syllables,’%20(sche-dule).

In this haiku it is two syllables. If you can’t wrap your brain around that and need it to be three, then replace the second line with, “Manage all those schedules.” That will work for the haiku rules.

It Is Finished at Last!

I am done! It’s over! It’s finished! Oh thank the King of England, at last I am through it all!

13 seasons of NuWho, 26 seasons of Classic Who, and one made for TV movie co-starring Julia Roberts’ fairly untalented brother!

My Epic Binge Watch of All Things Doctor Who is Complete! I am Done!

Now what do I do?

Favorite Websites?

What are your favorite websites?

Daily writing prompt

Do people still think in terms of favorite websites? Wouldn’t you say they are more like commonly used tools now rather than favorites? Back in the early days I might have thought in favorite terms, but I don’t think I do anymore.

I can give you a list of commonly used sites. These are the tabs that I keep open on my browser on my personal machine:

  • Gmail
  • WordPress.com
  • Flickr
  • Mastodon
  • Bluesky
  • Facebook messenger (in case the band thread gets updated)
  • Reddit
  • Trello
  • Rhymezone (in case I am trying to write lyrics)
  • Alonetone (in case I need to upload a new song)
  • Hearthis.at (same as alonetone)
  • Wordle
  • The Who Back When podcast page, but that’s only until I finish the epic Doctor Who binge watch
  • Google Keep for our grocery list
  • My Food/Drink tracking spreadsheet

Really, I could do without all of those except Gmail, WordPress, and the food spreadsheet. The rest are not really that important.

Honorable mentions? There could be a few. The For You page on Google News gets a lot of use. So does US College Hockey Online, the NHL, MLB, and ESPN sites. Of course the one page that gets used more than almost all others is Google. Anything that comes up gets a Google search. Wikipedia is probably second on the list, but it’s a distant second.

I guess the answer to the question what are my favorite websites though would be… none, I think.

The Last Pics

Forgive me for hyper-focusing on the whole guitar-in-the-shop topic, but this is just a little nerve wracking to me. It’s like sending an old friend off to the hospital with the knowledge that the old friend might never be the same again.

Are these the last photographs taken of my beloved 1978 Les Paul Custom before the neck is ripped to pieces?

Probably

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18 Month Weigh In

Today is the 1.5 year anniversary of my gastric bypass surgery. In celebration I stepped on the scale and I surely wish I had given it a miss this month.

My exercise routine has been greatly reduced over the last couple of months, partly thanks to Covid, partly thanks to travel, and partly thanks to hurting my back. There have been a lot of days where I should have exercised but did not. The result? I went up 10.8 pounds since last month’s weigh in. Yikes! I am at 215.8, which is still miraculous. I am not complaining here, not even a little bit. I just want to get back onto the exercise track and get back down to around 210 or maybe a little less.

Better luck next month, right? See you again on December 4th! I’m going to a hockey game in Vermont on Sunday December 3rd and I took Monday the 4th off of work. I can celebrate my 19th monthiversary with a day off! Sweet!