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The Constant Babysitting of Tech

I have to rant for a moment. With work and life-related tasks and errands, I don’t have much time to blog, so when I sit down to my computer, the last thing I want to do is babysit the tech. Yet, increasingly, that’s what I need to do. By babysitting the tech, I mean doing updates and security logins or troubleshooting problems. I seem to be doing all of these things more and more. I…

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Toys as a Sign of Love

I ran across a list showing the most popular toys of each year from 1950 to 2010. It’s from Mental Floss. Here’s the link: https://www.mentalfloss.com/fun/toys/most-popular-toy-year-born You will need to copy and paste that into a browser. I’ve discovered that the direct links I’ve provided in past posts are breaking at an alarming rate. I blame this on a few things. Link rot has been a constant for decades. People and organizations change their websites or…

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YA Kick

Like most readers, I have a stack of books on my To-Read list. There’s a literal stack of them on the floor of my office that I’ve been making my way through over the course of the year. Almost all of them are used books, picked up at estate sales, Half Price Books, and from Little Free Libraries. Over the summer, I inadvertently discovered that I was on a YA kick. While “Ya Kick” sounds…

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