A Sense of Doubt blog post #2568 - Musical Monday REPRINT for 2202.28 - Fergie and the National Anthem from 2018

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2568 - Musical Monday REPRINT for 2202.28 - Fergie and the National Anthem from 2018

I have always liked Fergie. She's brash, sexy, smart, and did I mention sexy? I have to say that the cover of Rolling Stone got my attention back in October of 2006. WHOA.

I liked her National Anthem rendition so much that I themed a whole MUSICAL MONDAY around it.

Also, I hated seeing how she was eviscerated in the press.

Grow up, people!

Blog Vacation Two 2022 - Vacation II Post #05

I took a "Blog Vacation" in 2021 from August 31st to October 14th. I did not stop posting daily; I just put the blog in a low power rotation and mostly kept it off social media. Like that vacation, for this second blog vacation now in 2022, I am alternating between reprints, shares with little to no commentary, and THAT ONE THING, which is an image from the folder with a few thoughts scribbled along with it. I am alternating these three modes as long as the vacation lasts (not sure how long), pre-publishing the posts, and not always pushing them to social media.

Here's the collected Blog Vacation I from 2021:

Saturday, October 16, 2021

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2433 - BLOG VACATION 2021 COLLECTED

ORIGINAL:

Monday, February 26, 2018

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #966 - Sexy National Anthems and Women in Music Round up - Musical Monday for 1802.26

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #966 - Sexy National Anthems and Women in Music Round up - Musical Monday for 1802.26

Hi Mom,

So last week when Fergie got eviscerated in the press and online for rendition of the national anthem at the NBA All-Star Game for 2018, which is the first track here and in the You Tube playlist.

I rather liked her performance, though not many people agree with me, even Fergie, who admitted it wasn't her best and what she was trying for didn't really come off well. I can see that, but I liked that tried something different. I support the different.

And so, I was inspired to make a mix for once with all women artists, though an emphasis on Fergie -- four of the tracks are either Fergie solos or feature her with the Black Eyed Peas.

I also wanted to feature woman of color, though not exclusively, so I went to some of my favorite artists, like Erykah Badu, MIA, Solange, and Daniela Andrade, but then as I built the list others came up as YouTube suggested them, such as Cat Power, which seemed to fit perfectly. Ayabambi, Nitty Scott, Macy Gray, and Sneaker Pimps were all suggested by YouTube and I am thankful for finding some new artists to follow.

I have posted some of these tracks before, such as Yasmine Hamdan's "Balad" and Badu's "Afro Blue" but I feel they fit this group.

I was also excited to find a new cut by Tracey Thorn as her new album debuts later this week. I also added new tracks by St. Vincent, Anne Marie, and the Kesha performance from the Grammy Awards to give this post some "kairos."

Also, it stood out to me when Tracey Thorn sang about missing her mom, Mom. That seems to fit the theme of the blog, even though I am not writing about you so much anymore, though I am still writing TO YOU.

I have been listenting to it a lot as I work, so I made the easy YOUTUBE playlist (link below), which does not require constant clicking as you would need to do to play from my blog.

Funny side note. I didn't plan it, but I ended up grabbing the Phantogram that my wife plays a lot. I think she played this Cat Power track quite a bit back in October when it came out.

Seemed right to end with Lorde, who will soon play a concert here in Portland.

Time to post.

Hope you like it.

"i have nothing to control and I am controlling it."
- Sevdaliza

Sexy Anthems and Women in Music PLAYLIST on YOU TUBE
by Chris Tower
for Monday February 26




FOR THE STORY ON FERGIE'S ANTHEM:

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Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you, Mom.
I miss you so very much, Mom.
Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.
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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2567 - Boltzman - Bad Space Comic - THAT ONE THING - Comic Book Sunday for 2202.27

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2567 - Boltzman - Bad Space Comic - THAT ONE THING - Comic Book Sunday for 2202.27

Go look at this comic!!

https://www.badspacecomics.com/post/boltzmann





And from the material will present itself department: this comic.

So, this one comes from GANZEER via Warren Ellis, but I had bookmarked it when I read it in Ganzeer's newsletter and then promptly forgot about it.

Sometimes, THAT ONE THING comes from the archive folder of 3,882 items, and sometimes it does not.

Also, often, in these cases, I spend at least thirty minutes saving all the images and re-formatting them here on my blog.

Not today.

Because of BLOG VACATION.

I am supposed to be WORKING.

Also, I sponsored this artist on PATREON this morning because OH WOW OH MY GOD OH AMZE BALLS WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, click the link.

Such a great comic.

And look at his others... like these: (all at https://www.instagram.com/badspacecomics/)

Blog Vacation Two 2022 - Vacation II Post #04

I took a "Blog Vacation" in 2021 from August 31st to October 14th. I did not stop posting daily; I just put the blog in a low power rotation and mostly kept it off social media. Like that vacation, for this second blog vacation now in 2022, I am alternating between reprints, shares with little to no commentary, and THAT ONE THING, which is an image from the folder with a few thoughts scribbled along with it. I am alternating these three modes as long as the vacation lasts (not sure how long), pre-publishing the posts, and not always pushing them to social media.

Here's the collected Blog Vacation I from 2021:

Saturday, October 16, 2021

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2433 - BLOG VACATION 2021 COLLECTED

Go look at this comic!!

https://www.badspacecomics.com/post/boltzmann

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- Days ago = 2431 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2566 - Digital vs Analogue and an expensive photo via Warren Ellis

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2566 - Digital vs Analogue and an expensive photo via Warren Ellis


I posted about the use of analogue notebooks while I was teaching creative writing.

Here:

Thursday, July 16, 2020

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1976 - Using Journals for Creative Writing


I miss the practice and frequent use of a notebook. I spend so much time on devices and looking at screens. I need to do that less.

Adding this here on notebooking. It's too long to reprint here. Maybe another time.

http://ratfactor.com/notes

Today, a share. Two, actually.

Now that WARREN ELLIS is back (THANK YOU SO MUICH WARREN; I MISSED YOU!) that means frequent sharing of Ellis content as I always have.

I always learn so much from Warren Ellis.

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2549 - WARREN ELLIS IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Though Warren has returned to the public eye, we cannot forget why he went away and the change that has begun and needs to continue in so many industries, especially the comic book industry. Click the link directly above if you do not know what I am writing about it in regards to Warren Ellis' absence.

and so, from...

Thursday, July 16, 2020

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1976 - Using Journals for Creative Writing

Here's the writing prompt I shared with students:


BRAINSTORMING AND
PRE-WRITING PROMPT 01

USING A JOURNAL FOR CREATIVE WRITING

Writing in a journal is a common practice, and there are literally thousands of web-based articles and guides for using a journal as a therapeutic tool, a dream record, a memory repository, and/or a brainstorming tool for creative writing.

If you want to do a journal as a prompt for this class, and you write in it substantively at least twice a week, then it counts as TWO of the eight minimum prompts you need by the end of the quarter.

WRITING IN A JOURNAL IS EXERCISE

I keep a daily journal, and I publish it on the Internet and push it out to social media accounts.

https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/

I know you know this. I have certainly made no secret of it, and I have directed you to it for content.

It’s not always a “diary-like” journal of what I am doing in my life. It’s not always a scrap of poem or thoughts about a story that I scrawl in these things (photo below).



NO RULES; NO LIMITS; NO PRISONS

There are no rules for what you put in your journal. Use it to start writings of any kind, free write just stream of consciousness channeling from the imaginative dimension X or the mother ship, use it to unpack things happening in your life that you can think through while writing, whatever you wish. Just write stuff.

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS WRITER’S BLOCK

It’s exercise. If you get in the habit, and you limber up with journaling, then the writing will flow through you. Real writers do not get writer’s block. That’s a popular fallacy promoted by people who like to call themselves writers but who do not actually do any writing. Writers write. If you write, then you’re a writer. And if you’re writing something, then you do not have writer’s block. It’s that simple.

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A Sense of Doubt blog post #1976 - Using Journals for Creative Writing

Blog Vacation Two 2022 - Vacation II Post #03

I took a "Blog Vacation" in 2021 from August 31st to October 14th. I did not stop posting daily; I just put the blog in a low power rotation and mostly kept it off social media. Like that vacation, for this second blog vacation now in 2022, I am alternating between reprints, shares with little to no commentary, and THAT ONE THING, which is an image from the folder with a few thoughts scribbled along with it. I am alternating these three modes as long as the vacation lasts (not sure how long), pre-publishing the posts, and not always pushing them to social media.

Here's the collected Blog Vacation I from 2021:

Saturday, October 16, 2021

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2433 - BLOG VACATION 2021 COLLECTED

... and now, the SHARES... ENJOY.

https://warrenellis.ltd/ltd/going-analogue-returning-to-digital/

Going Analogue, Returning To Digital

WARREN ELLISLTDFEBRUARY 14, 2022

I’m writing this in the evening, on a laptop resting on a work board my kid bought me for Xmas. The board is actually intended for tablets, and has a long slot so you can prop the tablet up, lay the board (with its beanbag-padded underside) on your belly and watch Netflix in bed until Netflix checks to see if you died. But it works fine for writing on a laptop on the sofa in the living room. I note all this because at this hour I would usually be writing in a notebook with a pen.

In 2020 I dropped pretty much all of my digital tools. Somewhere around here will be a photo of the notebooks I’ve filled in the last two years.

I almost exclusively think on paper these days. The first page of each notebook is used for a numbered index. When I’m jotting down something I know I’m going to want to refer to later, I assign it a number on the index page and write the same number on the top right hand corner of the piece I’m referencing. I write in it pretty much every day. It serves as work book, commonplace book, personal journal, anything I want to be. The numbering on the spines is done with a Pentel white-out pen. (UK) (US) (Pretty sure I picked up that trick from the Cool Tools newsletter.)

I like it. It’s calming. It allows my mind to wander more. I make different kinds of connections to the ones I used to. It’s more reflective. I do wish my handwriting was better, but I’ve wished that since I was ten, and it’s time to let that go. I use a Pilot Frixion erasable pen in Moleskines, and write in black block capitals that most of the time I can actually understand a day later. (Not always. Sometimes I’ve had to examine my writing under strong light to decipher exactly what the hell I was scrawling down.)

My phone has been made very still – limited notifications, fewer apps – and I’m not connected to the social internet at all, which takes away a number of attention-stealing cycles. I have newsletters, RSS feeds and bookmarks for news sources.

Craig Mod, recently:

“…so glad to be off Twitter, off the networks, off the slurping of the timelines. The mind really does expand, the shoulders relax when you disengage. That din of those places seeps into work. I felt that in reading this other, sloppy essay — oh, this sentence? This sentence is for the algorithm. For the likes. It was a bit sad, is all.”

There is, of course, a tendency to be a little… self-congratulatory about coming off the social internet? Not that I’m accusing Mr. Mod of that, at all. He’s making a good point, too. But I think there’s also some duty to not talk about it like one is newly sober. It’s not a fucking miracle to discover new focus from ceasing to use networked systems that are a dozen years old. Even when I wasn’t actively using Twitter as an engaged speaker, I was using it for news — but the thing about using Twitter for news is that you cannot completely filter out everything that’s not actual news of some kind, and you can’t filter out everything that’s not bullshit clickbait “headlines” and “quotes.”

Someone sent me this article the other day, and here’s the quote we both independently flagged from it:

But just because something makes waves on Twitter doesn’t mean it actually matters to most people. According to the Pew Research Center, only 23 percent of U.S. adults use Twitter, and of those users, “the most active 25% … produced 97% of all tweets.” In other words, nearly all tweets come from less than 6 percent of American adults. This is not a remotely good representation of public opinion, let alone newsworthiness, and treating it as such will inevitably result in wrong conclusions.

I’m not as up to date on some things as I used to be, but, framing it like that — what am I really missing? Value is not necessarily intrinsic to a digital service (or most other things). We choose to invest these things with value. And sometimes we’re too caught up in the stream to reframe these things and do a proper test on them. It doesn’t feel right to celebrate snapping out of long-term behavioral loops that one allowed to form in the first damn place. One just gets it done and then keeps getting it done until it’s better, I think.

There’s a tech industry term: dogfooding. It means using your own product or service. The inventor of Twitter fucks off to silent tech-free meditation retreats for weeks at a time. How was that not a red flag?

I read digitally on a Kindle for the most part, for reasons of There Is No More Space In This Little House For Books. When I finish reading a book, I download and print off my Kindle highlights, and paste them into a notebook.

I used to take a photo every day, and post it here and/or Instagram. I don’t take a photo a day any more, but, when I do photograph something I want to remember, I use a fun little device I bought in 2020 for this analogue purpose. It’s an Instax mini-printer (UK) (US), which churns out half-size Polaroids that I put into the notebook with sticky dots.

Somewhere around here will be a Weathershot Pro photo. The Instax photos are too small to allow the data chyron to be visible. I like the data on Weathershot photos. I miss having that. Note the portrait size. I no longer need to frame photos for social media, so I can use whatever size I like.

I still use Bandcamp. Bandcamp is a store with very basic “social” functions that can be cut off – it doesn’t distract or engage, nobody can reach you, it just plays and sells you music. Most of the music I buy there is physical, but sometimes it’s digital, and my wishlist is digital. Just writing down URLs in a notebook seems fairly pointless.

I have not yet built the habit of writing about the books I read in the notebook. I just paste in the record of sentences and paragraphs I want to remember. I seem to have this deep-seated muscle-memory-like thing, that writing about books is a thing that happens on a keyboard, and is put out into the public space in case it helps anyone else curate their reading.

All of which is to say, I’m happier in an analogue life, but there are things that only really work for me on a digital level. I liked taking a photo a day, and we tend to forget that digital photography means we no longer burn through expensive physical film and processing to get that photo a day. And also we get as many tries as we want to get a photo we like enough to represent that day. Especially when one is, like me, a terrible photographer who just farts around with a camera because we like it.

So I’ve decided to reactivate LTD, in a limited way. I’m conceiving of it, at this time, as the digital tool that fills in the few gaps I have remaining in a life of knowledge work and personal record. Here’s where I am today and here’s what I think it looks like. These are the things I can see and hear. These are the books I want to remember because culture is made up of what remains after everything else has been forgotten. Also photos of chickens.

And now I’m closing the laptop and picking up my notebook, and lighting a fire so that my fingers warm up enough to hold a damn pen properly.

https://warrenellis.ltd/mc/morning-computer-18feb22/

morning computer 18feb22

WARREN ELLISMORNING COMPUTERFEBRUARY 18, 2022

The wind is booming here, and I want to try something new in the “digital notebook” framework here, using a legacy title. Listening to this while I try the thought out:

I hadn’t noticed this, and will likely forget it again, so I’m making a note: the Bandcamp phone app now allows for queueing and playlists. I have bought (checks site) 1355 records through Bandcamp, so this is a good thing for me, except that I will now spend days trawling through those 1355 records building playlists I will hardly ever use.

Probably the most expensive photograph in the world, apparently. Also, world photos from the month of January 2022 from Foreign Policy. Though I certainly still miss the flow of imagery from Instagram on the desktop, my RSS feeds are still highly visual — and I don’t have the tug of IG on a phone to go look at some nice photos for a few minutes.

Nathen Chen didn’t even take his phone to the Olympics: “so as to escape the cognitive drain induced by “the urge to scroll for hours through social media.” He brought his guitar instead, choosing to replace dopamine hacking with high quality leisure.” In leisure reading, the Guardian has a short primer for starting with James Joyce – I’ve been dipping back into both Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake over the last several months. Ulysses remains beautiful:

Old and secret she had entered from a morning world

And FInnegan’s Wake remains the exhausting, if often lovely, work of a man who should have been beaten to death for compulsive punning:

Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen’s maurer, lived in the broadest way immarginable in his rushlit toofarback

(But lovely!)

The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where ashes lay.

“Analysis of a colossal anthropological dataset that systematically collects characteristics of societies around the world throughout all of human history and prehistory shows that an important bottleneck preventing growth in ‘collective computation’—the ability of social groups to solve problems—may be the development of writing systems.”

Studies suggest that writing systems emerge only when cities emerge. James Joyce said of Ulysses that if the city of Dublin was destroyed tomorrow, “Ulysses could be used to rebuild it brick by brick.”

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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2565 - SNOW DAY! Reprint of SoD #233 from February 25th, 2016

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2565 - SNOW DAY! Reprint of SoD #233 from February 25th, 2016

In preparing this reprint, I was going to edit the conclusions I made from the photo, and so I again showed it to my Dad to discuss. The nuances of the house in the background, the exposed rock wall in front of us, the opening to the original front door (to Mom's right), the bush (that will be leafed out in the summer) behind us, the open space clearly seen in the upper right of the photo, all these indicators orient me in the neighborhood in which I grew up.

The photo is reversed as the reprint below explains.

So, a reprint from THIS DAY -- February 25th -- in 2016, the first year following Mom's death, since, as you can see, the numbering was not yet to 365, though there are pre-HEY MOM posts in that total.

Hi, welcome to the second post of the blog vacation.

Here we go...

Blog Vacation Two 2022 - Vacation II Post #02

I took a "Blog Vacation" in 2021 from August 31st to October 14th. I did not stop posting daily; I just put the blog in a low power rotation and mostly kept it off social media. Like that vacation, for this second blog vacation now in 2022, I am alternating between reprints, shares with little to no commentary, and THAT ONE THING, which is an image from the folder with a few thoughts scribbled along with it. I am alternating these three modes as long as the vacation lasts (not sure how long), pre-publishing the posts, and not always pushing them to social media.

Here's the collected Blog Vacation I from 2021:

Saturday, October 16, 2021

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2433 - BLOG VACATION 2021 COLLECTED

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #233 - One photo; snow day!

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #233 - One photo; snow day!


Hey Mom,

Guess what? SNOW DAY!!

I stared at this picture for a long time, as it took me a very long time to realize that it's backwards, like many of the slides my father has scanned. You will see it, too, Mom. This is the path Dad dug out to the front door (surely I helped some, but I am probably eight years old here, which would make this 1970 or very early 1971). That is the Owens house behind us, which, if looking at our house from the front is to the left, but the path, which would lead toward the garage would be to the right, which means, IPSO FACTO, that this picture is reversed (left and right are switched).

Maybe I am just tired, but it took me a long time to see that reversal.

Okay, so following up on yesterday's post, SNOW DAY!!!

I woke at my usual time and checked closings as soon as I got to my office. WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY IS CLOSED!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Eclipse (who is the personification of chaos).

I needed a break and some extra time to get help on my computer program.

BTW, WMU's method for reporting snow days is AWFUL. I am pretty sure I signed up for alerts, and yet I received no alerts. And there was never a post on the university web site, the gowmu one we faculty and students use, about the snow day. I have always felt that the gowmu web site is one of the worst sites I have ever seen, and this is a new low for it's poor design and lack of usefulness when there's never a notification of the school being closed anywhere (at least no where clear and obvious) on the site. Given that I am learning to re-design and program things like this, WMU should hire me and my team to re-design gowmu and make it actually useful.

I tried to work on the program, but I was quite stuck. I did not know how to fix the previous null pointer error, and now I had a new one. So after I waited a bit so I was not texting at 6 a.m.. I texted my good friend and computer tutor, Colin MacCreery, to beg him to help me on a snow day, AND his birthday.

After a while, I was able to get a hold of him, and he agreed to meet me.

Since I was stuck on the program, and making no progress, I switched to work and banged out the Park discussion grades that I was supposed to do Tuesday. I also did daily work.

I met Colin at 1:30 at Bilbo's (BTW, their Internet sucks... FYI) . Within minutes, he had solved my null pointer exception errors, and so I enlisted his help finishing the rest, which was easy, and so we were done by four p.m. MEANWHILE, before I left, I emailed my TA and begged for one more day because of the campus being closed. Once I got home (after buying chicken feed). I checked my email, and the TA had granted me the extension through Friday, meaning I could watch some LOST with Liesel and go to bed. After one episode, she was "bored" with LOST, and so we tried to watch a Bergman film -- Through a Glass Darkly -- which was pretty tedious and kind of awful.

Then to bed, with plans to get up the next morning and finish my program and then try to do as much work as possible before going to Calculus, where I knew we would have a quiz.

But success! One of my strengths is interacting and building relationships with people as evidenced by how I managed this situation and succeeded.

Thanks for listening, Mom, and for your support, which means a lot.

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Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.
Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2564 - Bizarro Report Card - THAT ONE THING

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2564 - Bizarro Report Card - THAT ONE THING

This one is a bit more than "THAT ONE THING," as I decided to dump in all the other BIZARRO images I downloaded when I used the Anti-Superman as a theme for this blog post:

Saturday, December 18, 2021

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2496 - Jesus was Born to a Teen Mom - Jesus Gets Women's Rights - Bizarro World - Weekly Hodge Podge for 2112.18

Plus, I just shared the top image about Bizarro report cards with some of my students.

That's all!!

Remember... it's "vacation." :-)

Blog Vacation Two 2022 - Vacation II Post #01

I took a "Blog Vacation" in 2021 from August 31st to October 14th. I did not stop posting daily; I just put the blog in a low power rotation and mostly kept it off social media. Like that vacation, for this second blog vacation now in 2022, I am alternating between reprints, shares with little to no commentary, and THAT ONE THING, which is an image from the folder with a few thoughts scribbled along with it. I am alternating these three modes as long as the vacation lasts (not sure how long), pre-publishing the posts, and not always pushing them to social media.

Here's the collected Blog Vacation I from 2021:

Saturday, October 16, 2021

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2433 - BLOG VACATION 2021 COLLECTED

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2202.24 - 10:10

- Days ago = 2428 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2563 - ANNOUNCING BLOG VACATION II 2022

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2563 - ANNOUNCING BLOG VACATION II 2022 

I am taking another "vacation" from the blog.

Though vacation is a relative term given that there will still be a post every day.

I need a break from the production line.

I mean, after all, we did just buy a house and will be moving while I am trying to wrap up two semesters at two schools.

SIGH.

Blog Vacation Two 2022 - Vacation II Post #00

I took a "Blog Vacation" in 2021 from August 31st to October 14th. I did not stop posting daily; I just put the blog in a low power rotation and mostly kept it off social media. Like that vacation, for this second blog vacation now in 2022, I am alternating between reprints, shares with little to no commentary, and THAT ONE THING, which is an image from the folder with a few thoughts scribbled along with it. I am alternating these three modes as long as the vacation lasts (not sure how long), pre-publishing the posts, and not always pushing them to social media.

Here's the collected Blog Vacation I from 2021:

Saturday, October 16, 2021

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2433 - BLOG VACATION 2021 COLLECTED

Like I wrote here, last year: 

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2387 - MY BLOG VACATION 2021 - GONE FISHIN'

And so, it's time for a vacation.

Because of my jobs (yes, JOBS), I rarely have times when there's NO WORK just less work.

Because I did not have PARK SUMMER CLASSES, I did have some time in June this year with no classes running, but I had PREP and a training, so I was not work free.

Basically, I am only work free for the last two weeks of December and very beginning of January every year.

I had planned a trip from Thursday, September 02 through the following Wednesday, September 08. That trip has been canceled because of the DELTA VARIANT and the fact that the destination -- KC, MO -- is a major hot spot for COVID infections.

But that's no reason not to still take a vacation.

I had already planned a blog vacation, and so I am still taking.

With my commitment to DAILY POSTS, I am never ceasing my blog work -- unless I ever decided to stop for some reason or am incapacitated, and even then I would catch up once conscious -- and so I vacation just means that I set up simple and easy posts ahead of time, publish them ahead of time, and for the most part do not push them through to social media.

And so, today starts that vacation for the next 20 days. Basically, three weeks. I am going into LOW POWER MODE.

For the next three weeks, I am going to alternate BLOG REPRINTS (both this blog and the T-shirts blog), old stuff from the archive that are simple shares (and already set up), and THAT ONE THING, which will probably just be some graphic from my folder of 3500+ items and a few lines of content about why I am sharing it.

So that's the dealio.

This is the last social media pushed post for three weeks (unless I change my mind).

Thanks for tuning in.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2202.23 - 10:10

- Days ago = 2427 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.