Monthly Archives: September 2016

Conflicting bookery

Posted on September 29, 2016 by dichroic

Perhaps not the best combination: reading Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth while my workout audiobook is Connie Willis’s Blackput. Death and destruction in all directions 🙁 And I keep hearing the refrain, “For, Willie McBride, it all happened again, and … Continue reading →

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high-tech sleeping

Posted on September 21, 2016 by dichroic

Sleeping is getting way too high tech lately. Yesterday I had an especially hard workout – 11km, including a warm-up followed by 2 sets of 2km at aerobic threshold, then 3km at marathon pace. So I actually headed up to … Continue reading →

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the time before fear – and a very modern annoyance

Posted on September 19, 2016 by dichroic

The notes app I’ve been using for years, since I got my first iPhone, Fliq Notes does not seem to be playing well with iOS 10 – and as far as I can tell, they’re not supporting it for iPhones … Continue reading →

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confused

Posted on September 12, 2016 by dichroic

This latest thing with athletes kneeling during the US national anthem confuses the heck out of me. I support anyone’s right to protest peacefully, of course, as a form of free speech; it’s just that I’d have thought that kneeling … Continue reading →

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mortality, again, and math

Posted on September 9, 2016 by dichroic

That whole mortality thing yesterday had me thinking about math and time. My online friend’s husband did die yesterday, and she mentioned that they’d had 61 years together. My parents had 50, and one set of grandparents were just shy … Continue reading →

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mean-spiritedness and mortality

Posted on September 8, 2016 by dichroic

I had a slightly frustrating conversation today; someone told me in so many words that she doesn’t want people to be able to go to college for free because “well, we had to pay for ours!” taxes, but this didn’t … Continue reading →

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