Tag: The Nick White Show

Another Saturday afternoon spent watching YouTube and ripping CDs to my laptop so I can then dump the music on a thumb drive so I can move it upstairs to my old iMac whose CD drive has been broken for years so I can listen to them on iTunes....

So, an hour ago when I was stuck in the line-up for the McDonald’s drive-thru, I had a brilliant idea of how to start this blog, but now it’s all gone. Oh well. Can’t have been all that brilliant, I guess. I think it had something to do with...

Well, last week’s heatwave peaked right on schedule on Monday afternoon, and it maxed out at 108 in my town instead of the predicted 111. Granted, whichever spot in the blazing sun on my concrete patio that has the outdoor temperature sensor that’s connected to my central air system...

So… greetings from Hell week: And outside: Monday will be even worse: 41 degrees Celsius (yes, I know I mix Fahrenheit and Celsius. I actually like Fahrenheit better, though.) This seems appropriate: Well, at least it’s a relatively dry heat. I remember when I lived in Vancouver there would...

First and foremost: the giant mulch pile remains. I did take three heaping wheelbarrows’ full off it last weekend but haven’t touched it since. Ah… laziness… So what did I do this week since I didn’t shovel mulch? Well, I did some brainstorming/outlining on a novel I’m writing… that...

Well… here I was yesterday afternoon thinking, shit, another Saturday blog with nothing much to report other than some of the peonies have started to bloom and what the Hell do I have to show for the week that’s interesting for a blog… Careful what you wish for and...

Slow news week, but whatever. Two weeks until my brother returns and I need to get the spare room ready for him. Let’s get real: this will probably all be done in the last 48 hours and not a moment sooner. In terms of other clean-up, my dad got...

Well, it’s Saturday, and more importantly, it’s the day after Walpurgisnacht, which passed with no major calamities this year, so we’ll call that a win. At least for me. I do hope the slug bait pellets I scattered in the garden last night caused some major calamities for those...

PSA: Never write about someone you hate, because you might accidentally find yourself liking them. Especially if you do your research, which you really should. The first episode of that weird sitcom/web series thing I’m working on (referenced in the last blog) has the main character, Nick (an aging...

Wow… what a change a few months brings, and in this one case it’s one of the only good changes of 2020: I’m back to writing. So… yeah, the whole art thing fizzled for a variety of reasons but mostly because that involves being in the widget business and...