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Food Blog: Day One
Fresh Starts & Heart-Healthy Bites Hello everyone! This is the first of what I hope will be many posts. I’ve blogged before, but this time around, things are a little different. Lately, I’ve been diving deep into heart-healthy, low-sodium diets—focusing on managing cholesterol, fat, and cutting out added salt. It’s a brand-new journey for me,…
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The Piranhas
DATE May 6, 2026 MOOD 😢 Well, I guess this is my attempt at yet another journal. Anyway, to the point: there’s a reason why I play solo in Warcraft and other games. I have a history with massively multiplayer online games, also known as an MMORPG, and I’ve just had trouble dealing with…
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Coffee Time Blog 15: The Crushes—The girls I loved, but sorta…
Good morning! It’s 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. It’s sunny and cool outside, and it’s coffee time. —– It’s been three months since I’ve written a Coffee Time entry. I don’t know why, but it’s been a wild and crazy winter—I’ll blame it on that. But I digress. I got to thinking the…
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Coffee Time Blog 14 | Red Ribbon Chokers and Guillotines
Good evening! It’s 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. It’s clear and cold, it’s New Year’s Eve, and it’s coffee time. We often think of fashion as purely aesthetic, but history tells us it can be a powerful psychological tool. The Mode à la victime (“Victim’s Fashion”) and the iconic red ribbon didn’t appear…
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Coffee Time Blog 13: The Vacuum of 1971 – Desegregation in Columbus, Georgia
Coffee Time Blog 13: The Vacuum of 1971 – Desegregation in Columbus, Georgia Good morning! It’s 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 21, 2025. It’s sunny and cool outside, and it’s coffee time.—– I recently encountered a thought-provoking Facebook post about the racial landscape of sociology. It highlighted how personal social and cultural environments can limit…
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Coffee Time Blog 12: Thanksgiving at Sea
Good morning! It’s 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 27, 2025. It’s clear and cold, it’s Thanksgiving 2025, and it’s coffee time.—– It’s Thanksgiving, and I hope you are all having a great one. Some of you get along with your families; some of you don’t. Some of you will nap in somebody else’s chair this…
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Coffee Time Blog 11 | Retail Madness (not that one).
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on Monday, November 10, 2025. It’s wet and cool outside, and it’s coffee time.—– Howdy y’all. This past weekend, I went shopping at Home Depot, intending just to pick up some containers I’d bought online for storage. Surprisingly, they had the same heavy-duty small containers as the discount stores, for…
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Coffee Time Blog 10 | Food of the 70s
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 30th, 2025. It’s wet and slightly warm outside and it’s coffee time. ————————————– It seems I’ve been quite nostalgic lately. This morning around 6:30 AM, when I was walking Sascha on her short trip for a pee, I noticed a school bus picking up children in my…
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Coffee Time Blog 09 | Question Everything! But…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 28th, 2025. It’s windy and rainy outside and it’s coffee time. I may have touched on this before, but still…let the indefinite pronouns begin! I can’t recall which HBO special it was from, but two things comedian George Carlin said have stuck with me from his stand-up…
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Coffee Time Blog 08 | The Rhythm of Everything-Almost
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on Monday, October 20th, 2025, and it’s coffee time. I have a saying I came up with: “To all things, there is a rhythm.” When I think of rhythm, I go all the way back to primitive man – the sound of drums, the sound of patterns. In my personal…
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Coffee Time Blog 07 | It’s RESET Day!
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on October 19th, 2025 It’s a beautiful Sunday morning here in coastal Virginia, and this is a special edition of Coffee Time! Sundays are my “reset” day, and that’s what this is all about. Normally, I wouldn’t do anything on Sundays (well, I have to do things, of course), but…
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Coffee Time Blog 06 | A New Phobia?
Good morning! It’s 7:00 AM on a wonderfully brisk Saturday, October 18th, 2025. Let’s grab some coffee. Growing up in the ’60s and ’70s, when I think about phobias that aren’t my own, my mind often goes to Lucy van Pelt from Peanuts. In several shows and in the comic strip, she’d set up a…
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Coffee Time Blog 05 | For The Love of Mayonnaise!
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on October 17th, 2025, and the Autumn sun is rising once again. It’s a bit chilly, and my dog is giving me that “I don’t know if I want to pee in the cold” look. But I digress (several times throughout this post LOL)! Anyway, on to the mayo! Mayonnaise,…
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Coffee Time Blog 04 | Red Dye #2 – The Red Scare Caused by the Red Scare
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on October 15th, 2025, and it’s coffee time. You know, I’ve been feeling a bit nostalgic lately. I originally planned to write about those hideous but wonderful artificially flavored banana popsicle Twin Pops I enjoyed in the ’60s and ’70s from ice cream trucks. But as I was researching,…
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Coffee Time Blog 03 | Remembering Mrs. Olson and Pop Culture’s Grip on Our Cups
Good morning! It’s 6:42 AM on Tuesday, October 14th, and it’s coffee time. This morning’s brew is brought to you by Folgers Black Silk, with a shot of Café Bustelo espresso – a truly personal combination! Today, I’m taking a trip down memory lane to talk about Mrs. Olson, the iconic spokesperson for Folgers coffee….
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Coco is remodeling-and she scraped her butt!
October 13, 2025 Coco is remodeling-and she scraped her butt! Our Mexican Red Rump tarantula, Tliltocatl vagans, “Coco,” is quite the character. She was one of our first tarantulas and has grown rather quickly over the past two years. Coco lives in a coconut shell that I repurposed as her hide. Lately, she’s been spending…
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Coffee Time Blog 02 | Generation Jones: Caught Between Worlds
Good morning! It’s 6:30 AM on Monday, October 13th, and it’s coffee time. Back in 1999, a cultural commentator named Jonathan Pontell coined the term “Generation Jones.” This refers to people born between 1954 and 1964, individuals like my wife and me, who sit right on the cusp of the Baby Boomer and Generation X…
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Coffee Time Blog 01 The First?
October 11th, 2025 – It’s Coffee Time, Let’s Talk! So, I stumbled upon something online recently: a Chick-fil-A sandwich has over 50 ingredients. My first thought was, “Wow, really?” So, I naturally headed to their website, and sure enough, it’s packed with all sorts of things. I personally like Chick-fil-A. I’ll admit, I’d completely forgotten…
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Five Dram Linkhorn Annex
Linkhorn Biosphere Annex Log for October 11, 2025 It’s a beautiful, cool October Saturday. I decided to create a Linkhorn Annex, positioning it indoors near light for better observation and control. Whether this endeavor stems from a genuine scientific interest or simply a need for a project remains to be seen. The Annex is housed…
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Remembering Blue Jean Shorts of the 1970s
I don’t know why I started thinking about it today, but we used to wear cut-offs in the summer. I think I’ve even blogged about this in a video somewhere, but anyway, here’s how it worked, at least in my family and for a few other kids I knew: In late summer, my mom would…
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Doctor Office forms, yes! Those!
We’ve all been there: the clipboard with the attached pen at the doctor’s office, featuring ambiguous forms that we constantly refill. It’s redundant, and we know they already have our information in the system, including our insurance details. They ask for liability purposes and use a broad form to reduce paperwork. I understand that excuse. However,…
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The Apocalypse – Linkhorn Biosphere Log for Oct 7th, 2025
Linkhorn Biosphere Log for October 7th, 2025: The Apocalypse Well, it seems that the Linkhorn is dying—it’s turning black. There are probably several reasons: not enough oxygen, not enough light, and who knows what else, but it’s definitely declining. As noted in other entries, I did observe some micro-life in there, so it’s not totally…
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Linkhorn Biosphere Log for October 6, 2025
Linkhorn Biosphere Log for October 6, 2025 This morning, I went outside on the porch to check on the Linkhorn biosphere, which I got from the bay out here. It was still dark, unlike yesterday, and not very clear. I had left the lid on a bit loose to allow some oxygen in, but this…
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Too many interests?
Can a person have too many interests? I think I might. I have so many different things I like to do, and now that I have more time on my hands, my brain just races with all the things I enjoy. For example, I recently discovered that I can use AI to correct my grammar…
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The Grand Experiment
I am creating a biosphere—arguably an ecosphere, but I’m calling it a biosphere because that’s what my old brain can remember. I’m using a jar that used to hold kimchi. I live near a branch of the Lynnhaven River, which stems from the Chesapeake Bay—Linkhorn Bay, I think, or something like that. Anyway, it’s a…
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So, I’m listening to…
So, I’m listening to shortwave radio again. One of the things that really fascinates me about it is that, when I was a kid, we had a Ford Pinto in the early ’70s. It had an AM radio—no air conditioning—and it was about as close to not being a car as you could get without…
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It’s been a while
It’s been quite some time as you can see. I have since had a rough time getting over the passing of my buddy Toshi; it’s really taking a toll on me. It’s hard to even look at a picture of him. But, day-by-day, my grieving is fading. I still miss him and I’m sure I…
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The Last Day
I want to write about my buddy Toshi, but it is very, very difficult and this may take me a while. My Shiba Inu, Toshi was almost fourteen years old when he passed away two days ago. His rear legs decided to stop working sometime during the night; he was also deaf and going blind….
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Eggs with Legs
It’s been 21 days since we first saw these little eggs and now they have evolved into eggs with legs. This the clutch of eggs that I previously posted on my Facebook page Emay’s Critters and it is from one of my wife’s tan jumping spiders (Polycryptus undatus). Her name is Toto; she is the…
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There Came a Little Spider
Little Miss Muffet: Little Miss Muffet She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighten’d Miss Muffet away. A few days ago, my son came to me saying there was a spider on the kitchen floor, “…and it looks like a tarantula…
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The Return of Passenger Window
Over the past several years, I have enjoyed taking Street Photography pictures from a passenger perspective while my wife drives around random places. Whether it’s behind the windshield, or through the side window the process is very satisfying. Pedestrians, bus stops, and cyclists are what I tend to gravitate toward. Sometimes, I will shoot blindly…
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Lovely day for plane photography, isn’t it?
Occasionally, I enjoy plane spotting and photographing flying things. One day, at a popular designated observation point for Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, I was fascinated by this gentleman, who was like me, energetically taking pictures of the planes. Luckily, a couple of US Air Force C-17A Globemasters came in on a beautifully…