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I told my brother I was quarantining from COVID in Whiterun. He apparently texted my wife asking where in Iowa that was.

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Most of my latest Cyberpunk 2077 run was spent petting this cat outside of Vik's shop.

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It Was Quite a Week

I thought it was a lingering cold. I took a Covid test while getting ready to drive down to Kentucky to see Mom, and was surprised when it came back positive. It was a good thing, too, because my symptoms got much worse. I would have been miserable trying to

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List your top 5 grocery store items.

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Marley’s Bowels of Compassion (or Lack Thereof)

This is a reference to 1 John 3:17 - “But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?” (KJV) In other words, those who are rich in this

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Beer and Snacks

Foreign affairs writer Tom Nichols of The Atlantic explains that foreign aid is normally about 1% of the U.S. budget—$60 billion—and 18 months of funding for both the military and humanitarian aid in Ukraine have been about $75 billion. Israel usually gets about $3 billion; the new

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Incipient Change

Mom is dying. She’s been putting it off for a while, but when the nurse you trust tells you to book a flight, you can feel that the ground has shifted. I would have left already but I thought that I had picked up the cold one of my

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See What They’ve Done

Lady Bird later recalled: “I looked at her. Mrs. Kennedy’s dress was stained with blood. One leg was almost entirely covered with it and her right glove was caked…with blood—her husband’s blood. She always wore gloves like she was used to them. I never could. Somehow

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Life is Wild

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Humankind

My Civ binge didn’t last long this time. I think it’s a fun game, but it’s a little cartoonish, and that starts to wear on me after a while. Humankind didn’t pan out for me; like Endless Legend, an earlier game from Amplitude, it was pretty

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Civ VI Again

I started binging on Civ VI again. I wonder what that says about my state of mind. My gaming has been focused on Civ VI, sudoku, crosswords, and solitaire. I got some speakers for the Xbox’s monitor; now I don’t have to wear headphones to play. I also