It’s been a long week, Gentle Reader. Political contests are wearing, and the one we just concluded was lots worse than average. I need to rest. I’ll hope to see you tomorrow. Meanwhile, enjoy the day.
Category: day off
Oct 24 2024
Day Off
Apologies, Gentle Readers. This will be a medical day off, as I have to see no fewer than three practitioners before 5 PM. So enjoy yourselves – life isn’t all Fran Porretto tirades, you know – and I’ll hope to see you tomorrow.
Oct 06 2024
Day Off
I need a day away from all things digital. Hopefully I’ll be back tomorrow. Before I go: Tomorrow is the first anniversary of HAMAS’s unprovoked attack on Israel, which took an estimated 1400 lives. Whether Islamic terrorists will “commemorate” that evil event with more violence, no one knows. However, it’s best to be …
Aug 14 2024
Relief
To hell with the news. To hell with the street violence. To hell with the collapsing economy. To hell with all the corruption and deceit. To hell with the conflicts in the Middle East. To the deepest pit of hell with the political campaign! It’s just suffering piled …
Jun 26 2024
Time Off
I won’t be posting for two or three days because I’ve just had surgery on my left hand. Please bear with me as at the moment typing is very inconvenient. (Voice recognition is no picnic either.)
Apr 12 2024
The Well Is Dry…
…and so am I. I desperately need a day away from the Net, if only to reacquaint myself with the analog world. Wait a moment: Is the world really analog? Or does it hide a sinister digital nature behind a bland, macroscopic mask of cause and effect? The public wants to know! Back …
Mar 12 2024
Day Off
I’m exhausted. I have an essay subject in mind – working title “When Presumably Decent People Write Hateful Things” – but in my current state I’d surely make a hash of it. So please allow me a day’s rest. With luck and a little cooperation from my wife and my four-footed dependents, I’ll be …
Dec 13 2023
The Seinfeld Edition
First: To all of you who’ve written to inquire about the state of my health, thanks, most sincerely, for caring. (NB: Except for the two clowns who wrote to express their hope that I’m about to die. Really, gentlemen! Have you no patience?) I’m mostly better, though I still have a nagging cough that …
Dec 03 2023
Day Off
Apologies, Gentle Readers. I’m a bit under the weather today, and lack the energy for my usual ranting and raving. However, the comments to this piece have cheered me greatly. If you haven’t read them, I recommend that you do so. After that, perhaps you might revisit this Baseline Essay, which is very much …
Oct 12 2023
Post Partum
Finishing a novel is a serious event for me. It drains me, leaving me essentially empty of words no matter what other things there may be to write about. So I hope you’ll allow me another day off to recover. The agony of awaiting my beta-readers’ opinions is severe enough. To quote the …
Oct 09 2023
Day Off
First, Happy Columbus Day (observed), everyone. The Genoese explorer who opened North America to Europe was a better man by far than his contemporary detractors. There’s a charming story about Ferdinand and Isabella’s debate over whether to invest him with the title of admiral, in Edward Lasker’s book The Adventure of Chess. If you …
Sep 05 2023
Day Off
I have a great many things to attend to this fine day, so it’s unlikely there’ll be anything from me until tomorrow. However, before I depart I must commend to you this tirade from Kurt Schlichter. Kurt foresees a great turning of the worm, in which he might be correct. He feels duty-bound to …
Aug 06 2023
Angry Day Off
Good morning, Gentle Reader. I did have a topic in mind for today, but I’m afraid I’m in no condition, emotionally, to write calmly and dispassionately. I’ve been struggling with a completely unsatisfactory purchase and shipment from Midland Radio and must spend at least a few hours emitting live steam over it. So while …
Jul 01 2023
Day Off
I’ve been neglecting my fiction duties lately, so I’ve decided to put today to that use rather than blathering interminably about stuff that’s beyond my control anyway. To my American readers: Enjoy your pre-Independence Day weekend. To my Canadian readers: Happy Canada Day! To all others: Be well, keep the faith, and soldier on. …
Jun 13 2023
Yet Another Surgery Day
Once again I must drive the C.S.O. a long distance for a surgical procedure, so I haven’t the time for a big essay today. However, I do have a quick thought to leave with you: Lawyer and author Harvey Silverglate posits in Three Felonies A Day that the complexity and obscurity of law today …
Jun 09 2023
Day Off
Forgive me, Gentle Reader. I’m utterly exhausted. I need some time away from this monstrosity. Anyway, this morning there’s only one story that really matters, and there are plenty of able commentators to address it. So be well, and check back tomorrow.
Apr 24 2023
Day Off
As I’ve been neglecting my fiction, please allow me a day off from ranting at Liberty’s Torch. Rather than pontificate here, I must service my characters, at least sufficiently to quell any potential mutiny. (Some of them have been threatening to form a union.) So I’ll wish all our Gentle Readers a good day …
Mar 21 2023
Here Comes Another One (Just Like The Other One)
Yes, today will be yet another day of long-distance driving, sitting in a surgical waiting room, and generally agonizing over the well-being of the C.S.O. So there’ll be nothing from me this morning. Perhaps later. Have a nice day, Gentle Reader.
Mar 16 2023
Day Off, Kinda-Sorta
Today will be another day of long drives, hospitals, surgery, and so forth, so there will likely be nothing from me until late today, if at all. Enjoy your day, Gentle Reader, and perhaps if the Spirit moves you, say a prayer for my wife. Till whenever.
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