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It takes 3 breaks in a row to change a life and other news
I have heard or read somewhere – that I can longer identify – that it takes three lucky breaks in a row, or three bad breaks in a row to change the direction of a life. This is a broad generalization, and there are a lot of caveats. That same source further asserts that good or bad breaks are equally likely. A break, here, is something that happens completely by chance. We are not talking about…
#2015 Subaru Forester#2022 Hyundai Tucson#consumer sentiment#Go Action Fun Time#good and bad breaks#Oliver!#personal news#Pippa#The GAFT Monstrous Directory#The ren fair circuit#Trumponomics#UnObtanium events
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Spoiling Doctor Who yet again for the last time maybe
There is reason to believe that Doctor Who will ever return to television. Neither Disney nor, more importantly, the BBC has promised any such thing, despite the apparent cliffhanger of the season finale. A cliffhanger, so we’re all clear, was added after the fact when it became clear the Ncuti Gwata would not return as the titular character. No reason has been given for the actor’s departure,…

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How we are thankful the deadline evaporated for removing the cholla
I removed it anyway – and I regret little. But the reason I removed it last weekend evaporated by the end of this weekend, and that was positive development that I am grateful for. Also, young renters, read your damn lease. All of it. Before you sign it. Take notes if you have to. Before I explain any of that, some announcements: Go Action Fun Time at my house any Sunday (except tomorrow)…
#Chain fruit cholla; DIY cholla removal#Go Action Fun Time#pumpion pie#Read your lease!#Thanksgiving#The Monstrous Directory
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Try not to live in fear of Trump or robots
For those troubled by Trump This is not where I tell you it’s not going to be as bad as you think. It could very likely become even worse than that. I hate this outcome too, for I have never been a fan. This is about getting through your trauma and anxiety right now. Right now, we do not know what the coming Trump Administration II – The Trumpening will actually be able to do. Some of this is…

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#courage in general#fear and anxiety and politics#Robots are still stupid#Trump#Trump Administration II - The trumpening#Waymo#Waymo customer service#Waymo got lost
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Tonight's Odd Antics in Context
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#African Sulcata tortoise#Drawing wings#Go Action Fun Time#LA Dodgers#Penguin TV show#Phoenix Suns#Shoulda stayed in brooklyn#Shynx wings#Suns bench#The Monstrous Directory#The things we do for love#word count
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An account of our summer antics
It’s been more than a month, and we have been busy running about in time and space, acquiring ridiculous things and learning on occasion. Chronologically, we lead with the ridiculous thing: This was from the Mad Hatter musical, an ill-fated premier at Herberger last spring that Cheryl was briefly involved with. They left these things behind, and the Herberger staff was happy to help us haul…

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#Dread Pirate#gaming conventions#Golfing#Gracie Shotz#Mad Hatter tree things#MaricopaCon#UnObtanium travels
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Some notes before we disappear
Soon, we shall disappear for the better part of two weeks, traveling in time and space because we can. Before that, a few random lessons learned: If you post a photo straight to Instagram – it’s gone. The only place to ever see it is that one Instagram post. It’s not like Facebook where you can still save the JPG if you can find it. Instagram encodes it in some sort of HTML that even the mighty…
#blogging#Capitalism sucks#GAFT Show Bible#Go Action Fun Time#Instagram sucks#random facts#UnObtanium Bazaar#Wordpress sucks
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Long overdue update with no real theme
I didn’t expect to get this done tonight. I expected Cheryl to come home from Spain and disintegrate all productive notion by her long overdue presence. But no. There was a 12 hour flight delay, as the flight she was supposed to be on was cancelled, and that plane left – perhaps with her luggage. We shall see. Meanwhile, I’ve been busy. This is a product you can actually by Right Now on…
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#Crit Hit 6#Free RPG Day#GAFT Episodes#GAFT Show Bible#Go Action Fun Time#J&J Game Factory#word count
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Three small lessons from three small losses
OH! Before we get to that: My plan for fixing the NBA All Star Game: Fans vote on the top offensive stars AND the top defensive stars. No duplications. Then one team is composed of the Offensive starters and the Defensive bench (the O’s) and the other [the X’s] is composed of the Defensive Starters and the Offensive bench. The Defensive stars are obviously motivated to prove they belong. The…
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#actual pygmies#African mythology#Autism dauy off#car payments#Dead of Winter#Hippos vs canoes#Jim Strickland#Lokundu and Llankaka#NBA All Star game fix#Ruby Vroom
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What habits might develop in thirty days without supervision?
I read or heard from some authoritative source that I do not recall that if you do something consistently for 30 days you can either make or break a habit. Thirty days seems suspiciously convenient, but I have tried this with a few personal habits recently, and it seems to be holding. My wife is six days into what will be about 30 days out at sea. What kind of feral nerd habits might I develop…

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#Are We Lost Yet? Holbert trail#Arizona Women&039;s Collaborative#Bajada Trail#blogging#draw every day#Go Action Fun Time#Jesse James Comics#lizards in love#random facts#South Mountain Hikes#UnObtanium Bazaar#word count#Writer&039;s Groups
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Legacies and Links from wandering Armadillos
This post contains no useful information about the actual animals. We’ve been busy and things have piled up, so I have some announcements, and then some links to dump – er bounce of a reflective surface. I was going to try to build a metaphor around that, but this turned into an Armadillo thing. Anyway: UnObtanium Bazaar will appear at the Two Rivers Renaissance Faire in Yuma next weekend. We…

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#Armadillo Grill#Dinosaurs in space#Go Action Fun Time#Joseph Schwartz#Mathew Howard#Max Delta Trail#Thomas Berenford#Two Rivers Renaissance faire#word count#writing process#Zoom
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The Go Action Fun Time Season 1
Below is the GAFT Season 1 Episode guide, an Excel file you can download and open at your leisure. If you worry about downloading such things, I don’t know what to tell you. This is what WordPress lets me do. Either take the risk or live with not knowing. Here it is: season-1-onlyDownload
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Life saving restrictions reduce us by more than we hoped
We have updated What Have We learned?
Before we start, an Announcement: Nerd Party! Join us for our Infinite Improbability Party 14 October 2023 at Casa Blanca Doors at 6pm. Food at 7pm. 107 E Thunderbird trail – Phoenix. This will follow our Open House Trunk Show for UnObtanium Bazaar which will feature costumes and garb. We have refreshments but you are encouraged to bring your own and share. Cheryl is organizing a…

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#DeAndre Ayton#Go Action Fun Time#Hippos Hippos are mean#Infinite Improbability Drive#Lupan#Okinushi#Pan-galactic Gargleblaster#Phoenix Suns#prostrate cancer#testosterone#Trades for trades sake#word count#Xinji
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Radiation does not make my poop glow and other conditional disappointments
Tomorrow will be the last of 45 scheduled radiation treatments for my prostrate cancer. Before we get to those lessons, I have an announcement: You Might want to stand back: I have finished the first draft of the Go Action Fun Time Setting Bible. It is available as a PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Go Action Fun Time is a table-top RPG I wrote. I have taken all the package deals from…

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#Geese and their crimes#glowing poop#Go Action Fun Time#prostrate cancer#radiation treatment#Ron Desantis#word count#Yellowstone TV series
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Notes while waiting for a call that might not happen
I’m up a little later than I want to be hoping my wife will “call” (via FB messenger). I can’t call her. My dear wife jumped out of a van at Sky Harbor to rush to make her flight. She left her phone in that van. We could not get it back to her before she had to get on a plane, fly to New Jersey, check into a hotel without a credit card (which she keeps with her phone, and then, as far as I know,…

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Refelections on accountability, radiation and defense with your feet.
We’ll get to all that, but first some announcements: UnObtanium Bazaar will be at the Las Vegas Pirate fest this weekend! We will be at London Bridge Ren Faire (in Lake Havasu City) next weekend. I am watching the Suns with the sound off partly so I can write, but mostly because I am tired of the local commentators whining about the fouls. In basketball, the accountability is fairly…
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#Fred Clarke&039;s corollary; defense with your feet#HBO Chernobyl; remedial management theory#Phoenix Suns
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A quick update between bombardments
We’ll get to a legit installment in a week. The short update is that we have a new trailer, my child has moved out of the old house, so I have to finish moving out of the old house, and my mother-in-law has moved in with us, as long prophesied. But what I really and to announce is this: This is a PDF you can buy from Drive-Thru RPG – or just contact me directly and I’ll e-mail it to you. It is…

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