THE WRITTEN RECORD

Author: Chris

Tis The Season To Create

Every year between September and February, it seems I am my most creative and ambitious. I am starting to feel it again here real soon.

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August 2022 Geocache Finds (so far)

What a month!

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We Have Liftoff

The test flight of Aero Mojo, the new drone, was a successful one. I almost lost it over the bypass but recovered nicely as shown in the video. The flight ended in a hard crash when encountering a pine tree…

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Interest

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t”

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Taking Advantage

Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already? Recovered from the Internet Archive.

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Undo Regret

‘Between life and death there is a library,’ she said. ‘And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if…

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Distraction Blockers

Advertisement blockers. Pop-up blockers. Social media blockers. Tracking blockers. Apple’s Hide My E-Mail. Apple’s Password Generator. Virtual Private Networks (VPN). These are the best additional software apps to have and use.

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On Contentment

Lately I’ve been playing ping-pong in my brain about changing platforms. I set myself up on a 14-day trial to host this site on another server and within 14 minutes decided it was too much of a struggle. I’ve spent…

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Love and Feel

I can never be all the people I want andlive all the lives I want. I can never trainmyself in all the skills I want. And whydo I want? I want to live and feel all theshades, tones and variations…

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Public Phone

As opposed to griping about people on their phones, it may be best to make use of my own iPhone and discover some of those benefits. Some use cases that works for me: Blog and write with the phone I…

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Whose Rules?

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

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Joy

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy

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Why Blog?

Even if few people read it, I think a blog/archive/notebook is good to have.

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Squandered Time

“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a…

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No Masters

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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