Author Archives: marshe

Over a Year

Posted on September 11, 2023 by marshe

It’s been over a year in the new position and for the most part I love it. The disconcerting thing is the money is dramatically short, and rapidly getting shorter as inflation ravages us. I’d forgotten and/or been less directly … Continue reading →

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Been A While

Posted on January 20, 2023 by marshe

2018? That was my last post? Wow! I’m here eliminating spam comments, like 2600 of them. The real ones are few, old, and all approved. Then I’m disabling comments on every post, meaning editing every post to get to that … Continue reading →

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When It’s Time To Change?

Posted on April 1, 2018 by marshe

Pondering whether I have to rearrange. I’ve been at the very physical package handling job over nine years, and it’s starting to take a toll. It’s one thing to keep it and love it for the exercise and the help … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Help

Posted on January 28, 2018 by marshe

I updated the Welcome to Help web page, for what it’s worth. It had been basically blank, but then something corrupted in the MySQL database it used, so it threw an error instead. Unsightly. The reason it might be of … Continue reading →

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Farewell to a Sweet Lady

Posted on April 18, 2016 by marshe

At least, that was always my impression of Nancy Pimentel, who went on to be Nancy Tracy in a 27 year second marriage. This is a bit of a strange memorial to write, as I can’t precisely say that she … Continue reading →

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Lacking Sympathy

Posted on September 29, 2015 by marshe

There is an imbalance of single college graduate women to men in the dating pool, leaving an increasing number of women in the lurch. The way colleges have been treating men versus women, the imbalance isn’t going to change soon. … Continue reading →

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Atlas Shrugged Part 3

Posted on September 5, 2015 by marshe

I finally got around to watching Atlas Shrugged Part 3. For Part 1, I had to travel a bit to get to a theater screening it. It was not the best, but that was overshadowed somewhat by the excitement of … Continue reading →

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Standing Corrected

Posted on September 2, 2015 by marshe

Previously in writing about Alone, I was critical of Sam’t shelter, mainly the way the outer tarp flapped noisily. Sam himself has posted a deconstruction of his shelter, including pictures of it at various stages of construction, showing how well-constructed … Continue reading →

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Alone Again, Naturally

Posted on August 23, 2015 by marshe

This seems to be my place for posting my thoughts on History Channel’s Alone, which completed its first season Thursday. There will be SPOILERS in this post. You have been warned. I have restrained myself from posting sooner and from … Continue reading →

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Incomplete Data

Posted on August 17, 2015 by marshe

Makes for imprefect predictions. As I posted previously, I had predicted and rooted for Mitch to win Alone. And he could have! But how could we have known about his mother weighing on his mind the entire time? I am … Continue reading →

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