Placeholder – May 17, 2024

graphx spwilcen Fortuitous Rain Only because There’s a gentle rain falling dictating inside work for a bit again today, I can make time to touch base with my WP community.  Then, relaxing some as I’m fresh off a bout of what I think was food poisoning that put me on the canvass for the count

Like Us On FaceSplash – May 15, 2024

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Newsfeed Wanderings – May 14, 2024

graphx spwilcen Language, politics, radical thought, socially incorrect, graphic violence Scheduling has been pretty tight lately. Sat down late yesterday afternoon,1 pooped, with just enough energy to pick up the cell and see what has been happening out in the rest of the world. A casual thumbing through professional newsfeeds. As you would expect, the

Little Things – May 10, 2024

graphx spwilcen Often, it’s not the big, aggressive, expensive things in life that cause trouble. Those big [things] events, if you’re normal,1 are good [happy] and unfortunate [sad] in roughly equal parts.  Now and again we all feel we are Al Capp’s Joe Bftsplk.2 But we’re certainly not. We’re all normal, it is just fun

Temptation – May 9, 2024

graphx spwilcen I know where the stash is. It’s not a big secret. I’m trained in matters of that ilk. It’s just out of the way. Out in plain sight, really. Don’t remember exactly how the location became obvious. Obvious to a trained eye. Like mine. Here alone for the moment, it seems. A simple

I Lied – May 8, 2024

graphx spwilcen I Lied – May 8, 2024 No biggie. Not intentional. Mentioned yesterday I might “relax” hauling landscape stone. I did. Threatening rain in addition to needing a brief break from heavy work – digging, setting posts, splicing and stretching fence – it made sense to haul stone.  Then it would be on hand

Slacking-off – May 7, 2024

graphx spwilcen Won’t be kicking any stones, but I’ll surely be handling a few.Maybe. Geezowie! Where has time gone?  The large lady is not about to sing. She’s warming-up with voice exercises, but she’ll not appear onstage for three of four days.  We’ve got the garden expansion ready for Boss to execute her grand schematic. 

Inconsiderate – May 5, 2024

graphx spwilcen The grass is still wet this morning. An overcast sky will not encourage the grass to dry quickly. With holes to dig to set the remaining fenceposts, I don’t want to be traipsing about in wet grass.  I’ll wait a bit. Dirt is fine. Mud is an uncomfortable inconvenience. Sunday. Not a great

Forced Respite – May 3, 2024

graphx spwilcen Often, when using a word I cannot recall last using, I pause to do a quick look-up to see that I’m using that word correctly. “Geeze,” some say, “this is the dude who plays loose and free with the English language, misusing words, making-up ridiculous near-real words, coming across as a literary buffoon

Is There a “Right” Way? – May 1, 2024

graphx spwilcen Campus “protests” Bastions of intellectual stupidity, universities like Columbia, NY City College, ASU, USC, UCLA, UNM, Yale, and Brown, demonstrate [indeed!] the lunacy of what higher education has come to mean.  The manner of thinking, or rather not thinking, but following leaders of a flock. Not to any purpose that drives protestors to