General bollocks - Blackbirds are Indestructible

MIDDLE FINGERS UP.

I haven't written here in months. That's not new. And the title of this post isn't because I'm angry with anyone or anything - I'm not. This is just a little reminder to myself after a couple of really dark weeks, a lot of crying, even more thinking, a little

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Empress of the Multiverse

Let us not forget... there is hope!

General bollocks

Bumbling Biden's Bet on Black Ballots

As I predicted at the start of the year, Joe Biden got the democratic nomination for president and will face off against the orange monkey in November in what can only be described as a shitshow waiting to poop. One thing that I didn't attempt to predict, however, was who

Pandemic2020

Quarantine Chronicles, Part 1

Holy shitballs. If you'd asked me three months ago where I thought the world was going to be in April 2020, or what my life was going to be like, or what major events might transpire in the first part of the year, I don't think I'd have gotten anything

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Here Come The 20s!

Usually around this time of year, I go back and revisit the predictions I made at the start of the year to see how well I did, but it turns out that I actually made no predictions at all for 2019, and thus there is no accounting of success to

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Chapter N+1: The Great Relocation

Moving day is right around the corner. Holy shitballs, it's really happening.

Travel

Level 44 Unlocked.

Holy shit, I just turned 44, and I haven't written here in 8 months. So let's start with a recap of my trip to Panama for Tribal Gathering.

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2019 - Gonna Be Just Fine?

Yeah, OK, I am not going to tempt fate by actually saying that I believe the title of this entry, because we all know what happens when I start feeling good about where I'm at and the things that are going on in my life - the universe decides to

Workout logs

A Workout Log? Holy Shit!

It's all just a case of history repeating.

General bollocks

Recap Shmecap

If I were to try to explain all the things that have happened since my last real entry which are at least somewhat noteworthy, this would probably go on for pages and pages. So rather than rehash the past few months, we'll just pick up the story of our hero

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Early 2018 Prediction Recap

Even though the year still has two months left to go, I'm going to take an early look at the predictions I made at the start of the year, because it appears that this year my skills of prognostication have actually been surprisingly good (this is not really a good

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Time Flies Like An Arrow

Fruit flies like a banana. It seems that every time I think I'm going to keep up to date with writing here, it fails miserably, and then when I finally get some idea in my head to come back and write something again, it's multiple weeks or months later and

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Adventures in Microdosing

Microdosing (taking sub-threshold doses of LSD as a means to enhance creativity and cognitive processes without actually tripping / getting high) is one of those things that I've been interested in trying out for quite awhile (pretty much ever since I heard about it), but engaging in said activity requires, above

General bollocks

Instacart Chicanery, Part 2

In the previous installment of this blog, I commented on Instacart's bullshit pricing model and how I find it entirely sleazy and bordering on dishonest. That was yesterday. Today, I went to cook some of the food that was a part of yesterday's order, and I noticed something that has

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Instacart Chicanery

Let me start off by saying that I like Instacart. The ability to open up an app or a web browser, pick out whatever groceries I need to cook some decent food for a few days rather than ordering takeout, and then have it show up on my doorstep within

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So This Is Chrismas...

And what have you done? Another year over, and a new one just begun.... Or something like that. It was exactly one year ago that I made my predictions for 2017; I already recapped the accuracy thereof in the previous post, so now we're going to make some predictions for

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Dear 2017, Go Fuck Yourself

Although there are still two weeks left in the year, I think this is a good time to start the year-in-review blog post cycle, in which we take a look back on the predictions I made at the beginning of the year to see whether I have a future in

General bollocks

The Cake is a Lie

I don't always love my job, but most of the time I like it well enough. There are things which annoy me, or things which I find suboptimal and frustrating, but as a general rule, the work is interesting, the people I work with on a daily basis tend to

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Tales From The ACL

Even though it's been one of the bigger things that have happened to me in 2017, I haven't written too much here about my ACL surgery and the subsequent rehab process. Part of that is probably just due to the general lack of desire to write a whole lot, and

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Can't Keep A Good Bird Down

Usually when I write things here, it's because they aren't settled in my mind and I want to rant about them or use this space to think through them, or something along those lines. However, as I'm trying to think about the events of the last 10 days or so

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One Broken Blackbird, Coming Right Up.

I'm writing this here because I have to write it somewhere, in the hopes that getting it out will serve as some kind of catharsis, and also because the fact that nobody reads this blog means that I won't have to answer a bunch of stupid questions like "are

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All Your Blackbird R Belong 2 Us

Yeah, so that title really has nothing at all to do with the contents of this post; this is just another generic update about what is or isn't going on in my life. For the most part, there is nothing going on aside from work and rehab for my leg.

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Nope, Still Not Dead

My interest in keeping this blog updated started waning significantly after I dropped out of the race, which I suppose should not be all that surprising given that the race was the original reason for creating it in the first place. However, I told myself that it was still worthwhile

Skiing

Blackbirds: Not So Indestructible After All

Yeah. That title is actually in reference to a couple of things that happened this past weekend, in which yours truly, Raven J. Blackbird, was brought down from the soaring heights to the cold reality of the pavement. Or, in this case, the snow. N and I drove up to

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A Quiet Rage Seething Below

This blog entry is not what it was originally going to be. I started off on a rant about one thing, and by the time I got a few paragraphs in decided that I wanted to go in a different direction. So, rather than talking about blowing up the planet