Yo. I’m still alive here. Maybe writing a few things but this blog is still going. Strong? Not so. Weak? Yeah maybe. Most likely. Well even this post is weak sauce and just words on the blog.
So I am just telling you. I am a bit sad about not writing. Maybe sometime I’ll do something good.
Please, stick around.
Did the usual Sunday thing and headed to the bookstore, the new, improved B&N, just to check it out. Eventually, I did buy the latest issue of Monocle to make the trip worth it, but the new store isn’t a place to hang out any more. No cafe and barely any seating. It’s slightly cramped. It’s missing the technology/computing section.
It reminds me of the bookstores you used to find in a mall, B. Dalton’s or Walden Books. They had the latest best seller, not a deep back catalog, magazines, and limited selections of various genres. We’ve gone back in time.
The most bothering thing is missing many of the familiar faces that I was used to. The one gentlemen who moved over from the Borders that closed a few years ago. The baristas in the cafe. So now its just a smaller crew a few new faces, too. Just wonder if they landed on their feet somewhere.
I am going to have to break my habit of going there often. Maybe twice a month?
Quote of the Day [9.21.22]
“What users really want is good tools. They want systems that are easy to learn and easy to use, and that help them do their work. They want software that doesn’t slow them down, that doesn’t trick or confuse them, that doesn’t make it easier to make mistakes or harder to finish the job.”
Larry Constantine, “What do users want?”
It’s not like I’m gonna try another flavor. Okay maybe Code Red.
Although lately, I’ve been searching for Mountain Dew Baja Blast. Looking for it outside of Taco Bell, it’s natural home. It so happened back in June I bought a sixer, and then I became hooked on it.
I am always hoping to find it on my grocer’s shelves, but it is in limited release and in limited supply. As I do my weekly grocer shopping, I go down the sugary soda aisle hoping to see the electric blue. Sadly, it’s always one of the other flavors. Who likes Baja Gold? Or that watermelon looking one? Who is drinking those? It seems no one is as they are still unsold.
I am coming to the realization that maybe the summer of Baja Blast has come to an end. The shelves are full of Mountain Dew just no Baja Blast.
Top Secret Sensitive Compartmentalized Information…
Do you have clearance? Well, then you have to know how to handle the data for it. You take a course every year and then you also need to redo the background check every so often.
And you know the consequences of not handling it correctly or even going against your training and selling the country out.
Shit it’s real. And if you love your country then you wouldn’t do stupid ass shit. But if you don’t and only love yourself you do stupid ass shit.
I wandered over to my local book store as is my wont on a Sunday afternoon and I found signs signifying the closing of the store — 25% off of everything. It’s not really closing. It’s moving to a new, smaller location. Downsizing because book selling in the digital age is a challenge.
They also definitely going to change the format. From one suited to browsing aisles to that of the best sellers. It’s going to be highly similar to an Amazon brick and mortar book store. Only the highlights and not a deep catalog. I only think this to be true, because of the smaller storefront where they have the signs up for the move. Parking is also going to be an issue in that it will share their lot with Trader Joe’s who are notorious for choosing small spaces.
This has been my bookstore for the past ten years. I hope it will still stay. But seeing the signs up, and even knowing of the move, I was bummed out about it that I bought $100 worth of merchandise discounted to $83 with tax.
I haven’t blogged this year. I don’t know when I will. What used to sustain this blog when I had nothing to write about was my commitment to writing a “review” for any movie I watched in the movie theater. I haven’t been in a movie theater since last year, and I am still afraid to go to one. Therefore, the movie reviews have dried up.
It was fun to go the theaters and watch a movie. Though the films may be good or bad, it was always enjoyable. The darkness. The popcorn. Two hours to be entertained. Or not. I liked watching movies, but nowadays not so.
You would think that since I am trapped in home because of the Corona Virus that I would watch movies from home. You would think, but I don’t. I am really bored with it all. Streaming television. Streaming services. Streaming. It’s just makes me bored, and when I’m bored I am lazy.
Maybe one day we’ll be past this Corona Virus pandemic and I’ll be able to go back to watching movies in the theater. I wonder if I will still be writing this blog.
I don’t have anything else to write about beyond that. For today.
It’s getting to the end of the month. I think this may be the third post. I guess we’re gonna have to do it during NewsRadio Quote Month. Good luck, BrowserMetrics. Get it going.
On the eve of the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States, one can’t help but wonder about these last four years. Like the whole time, could there have a been a worse person to be the leader of the US? And can you imagine how much we regressed as a society? Not to mention the untold hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive with a person who actually cared.
Well, Joe Biden cares. He is not a black-hearted, ugly person like Donald Trump. It is a low bar to clear to be more decent than Trump, but I think Biden will. He’s already shown too much sympathy for the other side.
Perhaps, all the fears of the right should be realized. We do need a healthy dose of socialism around here. Let’s start today.
One final “FUCK OFF” for Donald Trump. Let’s not hear about that guy until the day he dies.
