"Ping pong project" by mknowles is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 I went to meditate this morning and Insight Timer wouldn't work. I quickly determined that because I have a 6th generation iPod touch, the app won't work because my iPod doesn't have iOS 13 or newer. So after briefly cursing Apple for their bullshit* and then making a …
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Uncollecting Update May 2021
As always, let’s get started with the numbers … Media consumed # (remaining/total)Physical Comics Read: 0 (2/399)Digital Comics Read: 9 (487/539)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 1 (29/40)Books Read: 2 (118/170)Movies Watched: 8 (115/143)TV Seasons Completed: 0 (99/101)TV Shows Completed: 0 (33/38)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 127 These are all new totals because I did a recount over Memorial Day weekend so that I could be more accurate in what I have to …
Personal Archaeology 15: The Book of Questions
By the time I was old enough to register who my great Aunt Frances was, she was an "old Italian woman" the way that many of my fellow "Italian-by-way-of-Brooklyn" connazionales would recognize from their own families. Short, bearing and incredible resemblance to both her sister Mimi and my grandfather John, Aunt Frances lived int he …
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Your Personal Energy Crisis
"Book hoarder (28 Jan 13)" by ejbSF is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Maybe it was because I was nine years old that I found Spock telling Kirk "It's always been easier to destroy rather than to create" in Star Trek II deeply profound even though it's an incredibly obvious statement. Then again, maybe I'm just dense because the …
The Week in Uncollecting 5/2/21-5/8/21
I didn't accidentally skip a week; I just let the monthly update be the "tracking entry" for that week. So there you go. And that's a great way to start a blog post, really. Even I'm looking at this and am incredibly intrigued at what is going to come next. Honestly, this week was another …
Uncollecting Update April 2021
As always, let’s get started with the numbers … Media consumed # (remaining/total)Physical Comics Read: 0 (7/399)Digital Comics Read: 2 (496/539)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 8 (28/40)Books Read: 3 (118/170)Movies Watched: 2 (104/143)TV Shows Completed: 1 (34/38)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 145 April, as it was this year, seemed to get away from me very fast. I was thinking about why this morning and I believe that a lot of it has …
The Week in Uncollecting, 4/17/21-4/25/21
Another light week, mostly due to a combination of work needs and working my way through at least one incredibly long novel along with an omnibus. The novel's not completed, but the omnibus is, so it's only one of a few things I can really say I put to bed (aside from The Falcon and …
The Week in Uncollecting, 4/10/21-4/16/21
A bit of a light week this week, I guess? I was back to work and therefore got slammed with after-school meetings, grades, and planning, so I found myself pretty tired most nights. Plus, I had three podcasting sessions, two of which were in the evening (no complaints, because they were so much fun, but …
Personal Archaeology 14: Diagnosing My Sophomore Self
Last time I wrote one of these entries, i was looking at an old underground student newspaper and the cringiest of cringeworthy essays in my teenage journal that responded to it. This would have been journal notebook #2, which I had during my sophomore year of high school and into the very beginning of my …
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The Week in Uncollecting, 4/2/21-4/9/21
Well, the first of these, and hopefully I can keep this up. I won't get into numbers until the month is over, except to say that there's not a ton of "keep/sell/donate/trash" physical media here because I was reading library books or streaming over Hulu, HBO Max, and Kanopy. So let's get to the rundown. …
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