Given I don’t trust my ‘puter to do diddly in Photoshop these days, my focus has chosen to do the Time Walk today. It’s just a jump to the left And then a step to the right I finished writing a flash-read short story for Amazon yesterday, hovering around 12K words. It’s still with beta…
Dell or No Dell
Warning: while I’m doing my best not to let it get out of hand, this entry has a fair amount of geek speak. But there are cool pictures at the end, if you scroll down. It’s taken a few months of dealing with their tech support, but Dell finally replaced the motherboard on my 3.5-year-old…
Rip-BARE-ian Run
Given garage sales have effectively ridden off into the sunset, our weekend dates have become photography dates. And while most of our photo runs stick close to home, today we finally got around to the trip we promised ourself a month or so ago, up and down the Gila River. Getting Started We headed out…
Roll Out the Barrow
The “featured” image up top prompted bad puns and misheard lyrics. I couldn’t resist. Fair warning: there’s a bunch of photos and groan-worthy puns in this entry. My current server loads faster than the old one. The photo count today may test the limits of how fast. After so many decades of virtually nonexistant summer…
The Summer of Broken Stuff
I’d been having progressively more frequent Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) crashes for my laptop, and had been harassing checking in with Dell about the issue for a while. But because each Dell interaction requires time I really can’t squeeze out, I hadn’t reached out to them for a few months. Until yesterday by about…




