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Always Learning (Please Update Your RSS)

TLDR: I moved my blog to Wordpress, but was unable to move my RSS feed. I know, I suck, I just put everyone through this...

My First Ancient Coin

I love history. It was always my favorite subject in school, and I really enjoy a good history book and museum. But I've been limited...

I'm a Little Fed Up

I had a bit of a rough week. My job has been taking advantage of me. It seems like daily, more gets added to my...

I’ve realized the Fediverse has the same issues as the rest of social media. It’s just made up of different people still pushing agendas. You...

Junited

Junited is a monthly challenge to share a single blog post each day that you appreciate or like. Over the next thirty days I’ll be...

WeblogPomo Comes to an End

Today is the final day of WeblogPomo. For the past thirty-one days, myself along with seventy-one registered participants, and I'm sure quite a few who...

Where's My Fitness Motivation?

This time last year, I was eating clean, working out three-to-five times a week and was laser focused on being a healthier version of myself....

Did a mini-workout today. My first in several months. I’m hoping this is the start of me getting myself back on track. 

Testing out this Shorts idea that Brandon had. Basically I’ll post microblogs on the site that won’t show up in RSS feeds. Eventually I’ll cross...

Football/Soccer

I'm an American and so I have a complex relationship with the sport the rest of the world calls football. Growing up in the 90's,...

Why I Left Healthcare

It used to bother me that I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, but I made peace with that sometime ago....

Back to MP3s

I'm sick of subscriptions blah blah, we've all heard this rant before. So, I'll skip the part you know, let's just get to Spotify. I...

The Loss of Watercooler TV

Recently, we passed the five-year anniversary of Game of Thrones finale. There has been a lot of discussion over how it's fallen out of the...

Perfect Days

Last week, I watched Perfect Days, a German/Japanese film directed Wim Wenders and starring Koji Yakusho. The film takes place in Tokyo, Japan and follows...

Finding Your Own Stuff

My favorite part of visiting a video store was exploring the aisles. I had so many choices and they were all mine. The only marketing...

When We're Gone: On Death & Blogging

This will be my third post this month dealing with death, which is unusual for me. I don't usually spend so much time discussing death,...

Streamlining My Blogs

When I started 2024, I was managing four websites: 1. BrandonWrites/Brandon's-Journal My main blog where I just write about stuff. 2. Middle-Aged Fat Kids A...

Apple Watch - A Year Later

Recently, Steve has been discussing his relationship with his smart watch and it's got me thinking about mine. I bought my Apple Watch SE about...

Fighting the Urge to Change Email Providers

In his week's issue of stupid stuff I'm considering in some idiotic quest for perfectionism I keep thinking about changing email providers from Fastmail to...

The Lad Mags: Maxim, Stuff, and FHM

It's the summer of 1999, I'm fifteen years old, and my father has just retired from the Navy. We left our home outside of Dallas,...