Neogy Titwhistle
"I could perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principle design was to inform you, and not to amuse you."
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Last piece of gear? in A small but passable life.
I ordered the Big Agnes Tiger Wall UL2 tent on the 18th of April from REI. The tent, the footprint, and sales tax totaled $379. Shipping was free. Both the tent and the footprint were 25% off. Th...
Silence. in A small but passable life.
The window to my little room has been open 24/7 for a few weeks now. The thermometer in my atomic clock reads from 68 degrees at 8am to maybe 77 to 80 by sundown. And what I’ve noticed is the lac...
A waiting game? in A small but passable life.
I finished reading the two non-fiction library books I had checked out. First was “Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It) by Elizabeth Anderson. And the...
Who knows? in A small but passable life.
If I had my druthers about it I would don my backpack, figure out how to drag along a couple of months worth of food and a stack of novels and my lawn chair, and hike out into the desert for a si...
Captain Trips? in A small but passable life.
I went out to the store a few days ago. I got everything that was on our weekly list except for canned veggies. There were none. I got the last four packages of instant tators and the last four p...
Desert rain. in A small but passable life.
It did rain. All day Saturday and some more Saturday night. The new untested rain gauge ended up showing 1 3/4 inches of rain total. Normal February average is 1.1 inches. So yeah, the weather co...
Here we go. in A small but passable life.
Yesterday was the first eighty degree day of 2020. And this morning I woke up to clouds and sixty degrees. So I guess winter is officially over. It is supposed to start raining tonight and rain a...
Should've could've? in A small but passable life.
I finished reading “The Institute” by Stephen King. A story. A good story. But just a story. Nothing new there. I believe winter is over. Highs in the mid-seventies and lows in the mid-forties. ...
Groundhog Day. An anniversary. in A small but passable life.
February 2, 1980. The hostages are still hostages. Jimmy Carter is president. And I got married for the first time. Forty years ago. It lasted less than two years. I now call it a practice run....
Found something new. in A small but passable life.
I finished reading “Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another” by Matt Taibbi. A very informative read. And I agree with his point that it may be too late to put the genie back in...
First entry of the year. in A small but passable life.
It took me a month but I finally finished “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power” by Shoshana Zuboff. The book does a pretty good job of tr...
Another year flashed by. in A small but passable life.
It took them two weeks but they finally found that little girl’s body. She had been washed downstream all the way to the lake. So sad. I’m glad they found her before the coyotes did. When I went ...
Desert Winter. in A small but passable life.
There were late monsoon rains in November and the usual monsoon floods. They are still looking for a six-year-old girl’s body from when her father drove the family over Tonto Creek and killed mos...
Spending money. in A small but passable life.
I rarely spend money. That is because I rarely need anything. But after doing the monthly load of laundry last week and putting on my “winter” cargo shorts I found them a little too tight around ...
Finally, coolness! in A small but passable life.
I woke up this morning and looked at the atomic clock. 62.4 degrees in here. I haven’t felt that in maybe ten months or so. I even turned the A/C over to “Heat” after getting up. At least until i...
Reasons. in A small but passable life.
The title may mean nothing. Or everything. I finished reading “The Testaments” by Margaret Atwood. I usually don’t review books, but I have a few words to say about this one. The Handmaid’s Tale ...
Perfect timing! in A small but passable life.
On the grocery run yesterday morning I stopped by the library to drop off the last book. I usually just buzz by the drive-thru drop off but this time since I had no books left in the pile beside ...
Four months? in A small but passable life.
I guess it has been four months since I’ve scribbled an entry. My bad! Books I’ve read since then: “America Before” by Graham Hancock (I’ve read him before but he was on Joe Rogan) “Upheaval” by ...
Another two months? in A small but passable life.
Since the last entry I’ve read six more books: “Aurora” by Kim Stanley Robinson “The Uninhabitable Earth” by David Wallace-Wells “Inadequate Equilibria” by Eliezer Yudkowsky “Team Human” by Doug...
Almost two months? in A small but passable life.
March 18 November 8, 2018 was an 80 degree day. There wasn’t another 80 degree day until March 6, 2019. Three months and twenty-eight days between. There hasn’t been one since March 6. There is f...
First book of the year. in A small but passable life.
I finished reading “America: The Farewell Tour” by Chris Hedges. More than a week since I’ve last scribbled in here. It may be a reflection of the semi-chosen lifestyle. There is not that much g...
Not here! in A small but passable life.
I’ve heard that there is winter weather other than here. Here it has been from the mid-fifties in the morning to the mid-seventies in the afternoon. My hold list at the library is down to two bo...
Good finds. in A small but passable life.
I’m back to my regular program. In bed from midnight to 8am. Coffee and reading until lunch. NPR, napping, and the pool until dinner. Dinner. Internet stuff until midnight. Repeat. And repeat ag...
Sad times. in A small but passable life.
The three week long visit from my daughter ended yesterday. I dropped her off at the airport after we went through the drive-thru at In and Out. She said she’d had a good visit. We did manage to ...
Scribbling on the first day. in A small but passable life.
Boots. Those thirty-something-dollar boots from Walmart, from China, weren’t going to work. Two short hikes south into the desert and the longer 12.6 mile wilderness hike proved it beyond a doub...
