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I wrote with my friends. Almost everyone did. Sometimes I wrote too much. Sometimes, others did. I liked to write. I still like to write. But I did not write to the point of blacking out, and I never sexually assaulted anyone. There is a bright line between writing, which I gladly do, and which I fully embrace, and sexually assaulting someone, which is a violent crime.
We wrote too much. We liked to write. You know, we... whatever the chart says, a word/page count chart.
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Exploding whale in 1% better
The oneth of December. December is a cold month. It pretends to be happy, but really if you have somewhere you’d rather be, there is no reason to hang on till Christmas. That’s always a big buil...
Utopia gone bad in 1% better
November 30 and at loose ends. That whole thing about work expanding to fill time is true. I’m just drifting around unmotivated. I can’t get too excited about working as 1) things are slow the g...
Why did the Greeks build so many ruins? in 1% better
So I got up at 3am and drove to the airport. I don’t know how many times I have been to Pearson. Thirty? Fifty times? And I don’t know how many times I have driven the route that there hasn’t bee...
Common understanding in 1% better
If you live in a foreign country you can learn the basics of getting around just by living there. My father-in-law for example, learned basic Taiwanese just by osmosis. In fact, I did too, but ma...
Crushed by reality in 1% better
Laying in bed a little while ago, drifting in and out of sleep, listening to podcasts from the UK, the US and Canada, mostly news and news entertainment. What would you call a podcast that discus...
Laying on the electric heat pad in 1% better
Taiwan Walker today, strolling around Zhonghe. I can’t believe how clean Taiwan looks. My memories are still from 1989 when it smelled bad, looked bad and was always raining. Think Bladerunner. T...
I don't like Hong Kong in 1% better
I lay around most of yesterday with my sore back. Time and inactivity, the massage chair and laying on the heat pad, light stretching and a couple of walks around the neighbourhood, a couple of g...
I have a new idea for my Rodeo News website. I want to do more video. So why not cull the most interesting stories from all of my sources (Feedly RSS), turn them into PDFs, highlight the key poin...
don't phone in 1% better
Earlier this year, just before a three-week roadtrip to Alberta and BC, I reset my phone. First, I set my phone only to receive calls from known numbers. Everything else would go to voicemail. Th...
If you’ve ever worked with a contractor, (who hasn’t?) you will often find that they are great at getting started but lousy at finishing up. It’s often that last little piece that takes all the t...
dusty kitchens in 1% better
I load up the back of the truck with the kitchen shelves and doors I removed and then go over to the bungalow and pick up all the stuff at the back of the driveway, except the sofa and basement d...
time to think in 1% better
First thing that registers. I see some clickbait for a story about french fry flavoured vodka. Bing. Then this. An idea for scented candles that smell like blown out candles. And then I remember ...
With a view of Tigh-Na-Mara in 1% better
Most days I sit down to write, I got nothing. No reason to write, nothing to try to work out. This is more about record keeping nowadays. Not like twenty years ago, 22 years ago to be more precis...
Just buying a bottle of water here, guys. Nothing to see. in 1% better
The missus tells me that she wants to visit China. This is new. She’s never liked China. Doesn’t like the politics. I’d go. I find China fascinating. I got pretty far off the beaten path back in ...
This is a stick up! in 1% better
In the nearby news, $90,000 worth of condoms were stolen from a local warehouse, enough to protect a Trojan army. I also read that there is a take-out food container shortage, that the average h...
Do you have anything in the afternoon? in 1% better
I sleep in until 11am. I don’t know why I need or want so much sleep but I luxuriate in my laziness. It seems to me that people always want more than they have, try to do more than they can, have...
Circling the airport in 1% better
Two winters ago, I spent hours and hours researching electronic bikes. Youtube videos, Amazon, manufacturer’s websites…but then I never got one. (And I’m glad I didn’t.) This year I have spent h...
lonelygirl15 in 1% better
I’m not getting any younger. But I am getting better looking. That’s the attitude! That’s what gets me through the day. 58 years old. 2/3 of my life used up and gone. But 1/3 of my life still l...
I scan the news from the grassy knoll and Oz, lingering there longer than I do on politics and economics. Sports, entertainment, clickbait and all the rest I don’t pay any attention to at all. I ...
another day in 1% better
There was snow briefly yesterday. It always seems sudden and too early. But it never sticks the first time and later in the afternoon, just as the kids were getting out of school, I went up to th...
dirty hippies in 1% better
A lot has happened since 1963, the year Kennedy got himself shot in Dallas. (The CIA did it.) I’m not getting any younger. I was born in the year of 1963. The world was still black and white back...
Good enough for the garden in 1% better
November 1. The one of November. Day one. I write again. It’s funny how the mood hits me again. I flirt with the idea of doing Nanowrimo. I started once before. That must have been twenty year...
I finally started on the bungalow project, cleaning it up, selling off a lot of old stuff at rock bottom prices, filling in little holes, putting down drop cloth and painting, painting, painting....
Throwing toys over fences in 1% better
Wendy and Scott bought a new house last November. It’s out of town, in a small satellite village, 20 minutes west of Krawttown, which in itself is now a satellite of the BIG T. O., that mega-conu...
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth in 1% better
— Alan Watts It’s hard to wrap your head around ideas that seem so foreign to conventional thought. It’s difficult to take yourself out of the equation and try to see the big picture from another...
