Category Archives: Randomness

2025 End of Year Memes – Farm Is Gone, Prom Is On, Calm App Is Balm, I Miss My Mom

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Toured a bee farm.  Made a possibly life and death decision on behalf of my mother not once but twice prior to surgery and then after a serious fall led to a potential brain bleed (luckily, this was not the case.) 2.   Did […]

First Lines of My First Blog Post of Every Month of 2025

January – “We have anger management but we don’t have stupidity management – why?” February – “A different energy and enthusiasm level than the first day of kindergarten…” March – “It’s been a quiet couple weeks with us on holidays and then me busy with a conference for most of last week but time to […]

Going Down The Broth vs. Stock Rabbit Hole

if you enjoy food or cooking, rabbit holes, conspiracies, and have 10 minutes to spare, please watch the best tiktok i’ve seen in a good minute pic.twitter.com/IlPkgNtnJ1 — soggy broccoli (@soggybrocoli) December 7, 2025  

Friday Fun Link – CloudHiker

In the early days of the Internet, there was a tool called StumbleUpon where you could click a button and get taken to a random web site then click again and again.  It was a great way to experience the full Internet in all its weird and wonderful glory. Now that “the Internet” has become […]

Friday Fun Link – Author Dive

Came across the “Author Dive” site buried in a Reddit comment.  Enter ten of your favourite authors and it will provide a heat map of similar authors you might want to check out…

Holidays Almost Over :-(

YugoMexican Music?

@nts_radio Viva la Yugoslavia? #yumex #mexico #mexicanmusic #rancheras #mariachi #musichistory ? original sound – NTS Radio

“It Is Now Impossible To Get H5N1 Out of the Ecosystem of North America”

1. I am of the firm belief that it is now impossible to get H5N1 out of the ecosystem of North America. Bluntly put, there is now simply too much virus present in wild birds and mammals to be able to contain it. There are also likely many more human cases than reported. — Conor […]

2024 End of Year Memes – Planes, Train(ing)s, and Automobiles

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? After 15 years of being outspoken, opinionated and irreverent in my career at RPL, I was called into HR meetings not once but multiple times over the past year or so.  I even ended up getting referred for personal coaching! I made my […]

Wisdom Wednesday – The Killing of United Healthcare’s MBA CEO

I’ve been reading a lot about the early Wednesday morning murder of the CEO of United Healthcare who was killed while walking into a shareholder’s meeting at a New York City hotel. Although things are still fresh, details aren’t fully known and, as I type this, the killer is still at large, it would appear […]