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Random musing, updates on what I’m building, and just things I might find interesting.

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  • My Summer Vacation – 2020 COVID Edition

    While waiting for my COVID results when I went in for what was thought to be a urinary tract infection that just turned out to be some weirdness down below accompanied by a slight fever, my wife and I needed somewhere to visit that would be safe in the social distancing realm. What about a…

  • Human Experimentation? Weird Drugs? What Was My Dad Up To?

    There comes a time for many people when they find themselves having to go through their parent’s things. Back in 2008 my dad passed away. The other day I revisited a toiletry bag of his, filled with a bunch of oddities. I came into possession of this toiletry bag after my mom died some 10…

  • Eating Our Way Through Spain

    Andy Note: This is a long story. Our vacation was ten days, and it might take that long for you to read this novella. Feel free to jump around, just look at the pictures, or go ahead and grab a sangria or three, a plate of “Jamón ibérico,” that’s Iberican ham to you English reading…

  • Eating Our Way Through Austin

    It started with an email to business dude and podcaster, Noah Kagan, “I like a great donut, and wondered if you know any awesome bakery or breakfast spots where we can start our tours of the Austin area?” He nicely replied how he wasn’t a donut guy, but Voodoo Donuts was “famous on 6th Street”.…

  • Which Plate is the Wrong Way?

    This post is short. It’s about a dishwasher. I just have one question. Which plate, in this picture, is in the wrong direction?

  • Did a Fasting Mimicking Diet Free Me From an Autoimmune Disorder?

    A Disclaimer This article is just my story. I am not offering any medical advice nor trying to tell you what to do if you suffer from an autoimmune disorder. I’m only explaining my journey of being afflicted with what is called Delayed Pressure Urticaria (DPU), the protocols I used to help alleviate the welts,…

  • Is it Wrong to Swear While Visiting St. Peter’s Basilica?

    It began with wanting to see the fires from hell. It ended with God. It began Oct 14, 2017. It ended May 19, 2018. It began with feeling like a fat loser at age 50. It ended with swearing while visiting St. Peter’s Basilica, and feeling like, well, I swore while visiting the Vatican. Italy…

  • The Front or The Back

    I’ve been slowly working on editing my myriad of concert pictures that I put on my Flickr site. Some of my favorites are Green Day. It was a concert back in 2005 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, IL. (I still need to clean up my old concert review pages – sorry for the bad…

  • Drippy Goo – Heliconia bihai cv. Lobster Claw One

    Looking through some of my Hawaii pictures on my Flickr pages recently, mostly because I’m freezing my behind off here in Chicago and would rather be there, I’m still fascinated by the goo cascading off this plant. It kind of looks like icicles, but definitely is not as the picture is from the Hawaii Botanic…

  • When Is It Time to Stop with the Happy New Year?

    I heard a cheerful “Happy New Year” said by someone, I’ll call them “Kate,” talking on the phone yesterday. As I’m typing this, “Yesterday” was January 9th, and I thought to myself “Isn’t it a little late to be wishing someone that their new year should be happy?” It just seemed too late. So many…

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