Ascent Into Madness

A Rough Night for Some Guy So, I went out a little before 8am this morning for my weekly trip to the grocery store.  I got down the steps an...

Dan Head I only recently realized that I hadn't seen any posts from an old friend, Dan Head , in a while on Facebook, so I went to his p...

Three things I saw commuting on the subway today. 1. Waiting at 49th Street for my train this morning I watched a rather large rat walk alon...

Guilt Over Complications of the Heart This morning I'm feeling a bit guilty about something from last night... In the evening, Leena cam...

 COVID-19 Follow Up To follow up after my March 3rd post about Leena getting sick with COVID-19 and testing positive .... I probably had it ...

CD-ROM Express from PC-Kwik The final product released by my old employer, PC-Kwik in 1996. So, I was browsing around a few weeks ago for th...

And it's here...  The Coronavirus... So, Friday afternoon Leena was just out and about, running errands.  She saw there was no line outs...

 An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away Over the years I've found this cliche actually works out to be true. For years I've eaten an a...

The Heart of the Matter So, in November last year I finally went to a new primary care physician to discuss my long-running high blood press...

How Do You Explain a Mosquito if Their is No God? (note: I borrowed the wrong homonym in my title to keep with the meme...) For some reason ...

The Nature and Growth (and Shrinkage) of Modern Mathematics I've struggled with math since elementary school.  In the 1990's, in my...

Close-Up U.S.A. When I was a kid in the 1970s and my parents were preparing to drive across the country and find a new place to live, t...

So, last week I had jury duty, again . This time it was at a different courthouse than my previous jury duty in 2013.  I had to go to 111...

The Time Traveler’s Wife — by Audrey Niffenegger I knew this was a movie quite a long time ago, but assumed it was a chick flick and I w...

Question:  Was I an asshole at work today? It’s finally getting warm in the office, enough that the previous two workdays I turned on the...

So, this week I hit the “trifecta” of witnessing bodily elimination functions during my commutes… On Tuesday morning, riding the 4 train ...

After a few weeks of being lazy on the weekends, I got out on Saturday with my camera.  Actually, I was feeling lazy, but Leena pushed me t...

Hawkwind - Road to Utopia The weather has cooled off enough to use my big stereo just in time to listen to a brand new Hawkwind album o...

What kind of guitar do you own, and which one do you want to own? This is my answer from a Quora question... What Kind of Guitar Do You...

Guns! I am not a gun owner or gun enthusiast, and I’ve never shot a firearm (BB gun, yes, and my father seriously emphasized not pointing...

What an act! For a few years I've regularly seen a beggar in a subway station in Brooklyn, sitting on the floor of a busy corridor as...

Sleep - Dopesmoker I read a “ letter of recommendation ” in the New York Times a few months ago for this album and it reminded me that t...

Well, that was kind of eerie...  I was on the 4 express train, that as usual had stopped in the tunnel between the last two stops, probably...

After not listening to much Slayer in the last couple of decades, except for their first album a few times a year, Show No Mercy  I was see...