Just Heard from the Shop

I just had a chat with the guitar shop. My Les Paul Custom is getting new frets. It’s getting a new bridge too. It’s also getting a new nut, but I guess that is a given when you get new frets.

It will probably be done some time next week and then we can start asking the real questions. That being, how does it feel and how does it sound? Does it feel like an entirely new guitar? Does it sound like an entirely new guitar? The most important question will be this one… do I still love it?

I have been afraid of this for years, and downright terrified ever since I finally pulled the trigger and started the process. Right now? Now I am still terrified, but I also have a new feeling… an unexpected feeling… excitement. I kinda can’t wait to play this guitar with new, clean frets. Oh boy, I am excited. Excellent!

Is This a Bug Or Are There Really Two Prompts Today?

When I bring up the Jetpack/Wordpress app on my iPhone the daily writing prompt looks like this:

When I bring up wordpress.com in a browser on my laptop the daily writing prompt looks like this:

Really guys? You let two different prompts out on the same day? Is this a bug or just really shitty implementation? Add this to the prompt not pulling into the posts on their own anymore, and you have me really not wanting to play this stupid fucking game anymore.

So which question do I answer? Who cares, right? Why even bother?

Aw, hell. Right then. How do I manage screen time for myself. I don’t. I work at a computer for 8+ hours a day and I am an adult. I don’t need to manage my screen time. I am not a child. I can do what I want.

Invent a holiday. I’ll give you one. It just happens to coincide with my birthday, but it’s not related to my birthday. May 8th. That’s the date that Germany surrendered to end the European portion of World War II. We can create a holiday out of that and call it Fascism is Evil Day or something like that. How about Death to Fascism as a Political Ideology Day. We can all celebrate by not being fascists. We can all celebrate by reading of the evils and horrors caused by fascism. We can all celebrate by throwing rocks at fascists, fascist collaborators, and fascist sympathizers. It would absolutely be my favorite holiday of the year.

There. I answered both daily writing prompts because Jetpack or WordPress.com or whoever is responsible for it fucked it all up and put out two prompts.

Fix the fucking bugs, please. Pretty please.

Date Night

Last night Jen and I had a movie date night in the living room. Tonight we had a dinner date night at a restaurant in Andover. It was an Italian place. We both got chicken piccata. It was wonderful. Both the food and the company.

Love you, sweetie.

(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.