Captian's Log Adventures in Bureaucracy: Covid-19 10 Nov 2020 It's time for, Adventures in Bureaucracy! So let's set the stage. I've been sick the last two weeks; covid symptoms but covid negative. My doctor refers me to somebody. We…
Captian's Log Real Life Fiction 24 Aug 2020 So, a bit of real life fiction. I was out in my yard, exercising, and because I am a complete nerd, I had a book with me. Well, I remembered…
Captian's Log Walt Whitman and Telemarketers 10 Aug 202010 Aug 2020 I had a little fun today. I was receiving those lovely, if unrequested, interruptions in my afternoon known patiently as telemarketers. There are less patient descriptions of such phone calls…
Top Ten Books Closing Thoughts on Agonson’s Top Ten 9 May 2020 P. G. Wodehouse & James Thurber There are two authors I’d like to talk about as I close Agonson’s Top Ten. My father would read each of them to me…
Captian's Log Babel 2.0 26 Mar 2020 It’s been about eight days since I began my “social distancing” in earnest. I never knew how great a conversationalist I was, but I have been talking with myself quite…
Captian's Log Rough Draft: Vampire’s Revenge 16 Mar 2020 A man sat outside begging, his unwashed stench sometimes wafting in with the summer breeze through the open window. He sat holding a little tin cup in one hand, stretching…
Top Ten Books Agonson’s Top 10: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 29 Feb 2020 It has entered my mind to formulate a list of books which have been meaningful to me, both in the pleasure they offer and also in the effect they had.…
Captian's Log Identity 16 Feb 2020 “The chains seem a little much,” I observed pulling at them. They weren’t the standard issue, stainless steel shackles one might expect: Medieval iron chains wrapped my arms, legs, and…
Captian's Log The Joke 4 Feb 2020 So, generally, I neither shy away from the subject of politics nor race towards it headlong. However, tonight I want to consider a discussion I had with someone who found…
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