Monthly Archives: June 2020

outdoor hideaway

Posted on June 13, 2020 by | Leave a comment

Hiding out at midnight in the secret nature preserve. WiFi reaches from house.

Sitting outside in the dark having a beer

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forced shopping adventure

Posted on June 12, 2020 by | Leave a comment

At the Harris Teeter (supermarket), my favorite ice cream was on sale. I had already gotten a cake that was also on sale. To return the cake to its cooler would have required traversing the entire store, so I was forced to keep both desserts though I had intended to only buy one.

Same with the alcohol. I had already been to the liquor store for a large bottle of my favorite tequila. At the supermarket, my favorite beer was on sale. I was forced to get double alcohol.

I saved a lot of money today.

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pride music

Posted on June 11, 2020 by | Leave a comment

The music gets good during Pride month. Enjoying. I have a couple of days off to play.

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so many photos

Posted on June 7, 2020 by | 3 comments

The Help/About images for our favorite file manager and image viewer are quite beautiful. Caja is the file manager. Eye of MATE is the image viewer. We have so many gigs of photos that it’s important that these work well.

There are many other good ones out there.
#caja #eyeofmate #ubuntu #ubuntumate #linux

Caja and Eye of MATE about screenshots

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at-home hideaway

Posted on June 7, 2020 by | 2 comments

Brian created a hidden area in the back of the yard that we are calling the nature trail or or the nature preserve. It’s nice to be almost downtown and be able to hide. The business and street lighting create a green glow.

He also installed a solar powered battery chandelier.

Various views of the secret hideaway

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morven is dead

Posted on June 2, 2020 by | Leave a comment

I passed through the town of Morven, South Carolina, this morning on the way to work. Over the years I have traveled this route many times and have always noticed the town because I like the name. I think I read a sci-fi novel one time in which one of the characters had this name.

The little downtown of Morven now looks completely dead and is somewhat falling back into the Earth. There was a light on in the post office, but that’s the only “activity” I saw. The area looked like one of those apocalypse scenarios when you wake up one morning and all the humans are gone and have been for a while.

Approaching Morven from one side, then departing from the other, I noticed two houses and one mobile home, each of which had a moving van backed up to it.

I’m just guessing on this part, but I suspect that whoever lives in each dwelling has missed between one and three mortgage (or rent) payments at this point, and the wolf is at the door.

Lotta people on the move in cities and country.

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