Recent Comments
jimcoleman3rd on Mid-Season Evaluation jimcoleman3rd on Arizona’s SB 1062 Zaphod Beeblebrox on Arizona’s SB 1062 jimcoleman3rd on Harry, Dave, and Reacher… Susan Molloy on Harry, Dave, and Reacher…
Category Archives: Myself
Mid-Season Evaluation
So back in January, I made some predictions. At mid-year, how am I doing on the ones we can verify? National Politics Hilary Clinton will be nominated the Democratic candidate for President Correct, but Bernie gave her a run, much … Continue reading
Posted in Myself, Thinking Too Hard
1 Comment
Badge of Honor
I am like Eeeyore, Mulish, despondent, proud. My badge of honor.
Posted in Myself, Poems
Leave a comment
So It Didn’t Happen
The new home, that is. Not that we didn’t find one, we did, in Oro Valley, a suburb of sorts of Tucson about 15 miles north. Very nice place, relatively new construction (2003) as opposed to our place (1971), big … Continue reading
What? It’s May Now?
This was supposed to be the year when I did more of this, not less … more of blogging that is, not less. It hasn’t happened that way. I’ve been occupied with Other Things, mostly personal. So while most of … Continue reading
Posted in Myself
Leave a comment
Starting Up
The German polymath, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, famously stated, “Aller Anfang is schwer”, literally “Every beginning is difficult”, which I would, with much more verbosity, translate as “Each new beginning is fraught with difficulties”. Why is starting up/doing new so … Continue reading
Posted in Myself, Thinking Too Hard
Leave a comment
You’ve Got It All Wrong – Sleep Studies
You’ve got it all wrong if you think that a sleep study is actually performed to judge how well you sleep: it’s actually to determine if you’re able to sleep at all in the face of all of the hook-ups … Continue reading
Posted in Myself, You've Got It All Wrong
Tagged CPAP, RLS, sleep apnea, sleep study
Leave a comment
RBS and the Conundrum of Sleep
RBS. No, that’s not Royal Bank of Scotland, despite what you may have heard. That’s what my wife and I call Rapid Brain Syndrome, a phenomena that drives sleep from our heads and occasionally us from our beds. So you … Continue reading
10 Things You May Not Know About Me
(updated in July 2025 1. Although I’ve spent most of my work life in information technology, my training is in German Studies, and contemporary German literature (well, what was contemporary back when I was studying in the ’70’s). Teaching at … Continue reading
Posted in Myself
Tagged bowling, fiber arts, golf, INTJ, Jugendstil, penny dreadfuls, West Berlin
Leave a comment
Pills
I do them. A lot of them. Statins for my cholesterol. Beta-blockers for my blood pressure. Pradaxa to thin my blood and make me bruise. A water pill because you can never void too much. A potassium pill because you … Continue reading
Posted in Myself
Leave a comment
Marginalia and Aphoristica 