Fully Anchored Blog

As most readers of the historical versions of this Blog know, I’ve had hearing issues for most of my life. This post is not about a re-hash of that stuff (you can roll on back if you need to) – this one is about my current “hearing equipment” setup and the profound madness it has engendered in Paul’s psyche for about a year now – and my most recent and final trashing of one significant item. The reason for said “trashing” is because the device in question has been figuratively screaming at me for a long time now – and what it’s been screaming is “There is no functional purpose for me [sic] – I only exist to drive you mad!”  To condense a lot of mind-numbing drivel into a kinder form for my readers, I’ll simply say that almost exactly one year before this post date, I got a Cochlear Implant on my right side. Google it if you don’t know what that is. When my implant was “activated’ by my audiologist, whoever the hell paid for it (wasn’t me) graciously provided not just one, but two o...

April Rules the Roost - 8/13/2024 Watching a YouTube video about “The 6 Cat Personalities and how to identify them” – and trying to guess which one my cat fits into, I was flummoxed – she’s not on the list! The closest personality they described was called “dominance,” but they only related that aspect to other cats – as in cats bullying each other. April is definitely a dominant cat, and yes, it’s a one-cat household because it has to be . But dominance for April doesn’t stop with other cats. When April wants something (or doesn’t) from her Hoomans, she’s not subtle at all. I adopted April into our home about 4 years ago, when she was 2 years old. She had been a guest of the Contra Costa Humane Society, a place where I was volunteering on the front desk (phone calls, paperwork, etc.) CCHS had tried placing April in the facility’s “Kitty Corner” – a “free-roam” cat playground – think really big living room with couches, fountains and cat condos. 90% of the cats the shelter to...

Anchors Away – 8/12/2024 Having plumbed the depths of my blog history in fear and trepidation as well as delight of recognition, I am inspired to create this new blog on the old platform. Needless to say, much has changed since Friday, August 31, 2007, the inception date of the original LifeWreck blog. For those who shy away from math as much as I do, I was about 49 years old when I started said blog, and I sit here today a 65-year-old (BY 1959). A lot happened in 17 years. Not much happened in 17 years. So, it goes. It occurred to me, while perusing the old shit and being blown away by both my past idiocy and my past insights, that it could be quite useful to my future self and god knows who else if I did the same exercise going forward from now. That’s what this is. Here are links to the old shit for reference by nobody in particular and me in general. The LifeWreck Blog: https://thelifewreckblog.blogspot.com/ The New LifeWreck Blog*: https://newlifewreckblog.blogspot.com/  ...