March 21, 2024

Ridiculously tired.

I woke up this morning feeling ridiculously tired.


I’m losing my hair above the left side of my brain. I learned that the brain’s left hemisphere controls speech, comprehension, arithmetic, and writing. Given my line of work, these areas are what I use most and cause the most stress. I’m not sure whether that is a fun fact, but it is time I accept this tragic loss.


I was thinking about the interview I had last week and how the hiring manager questioned my “short” time spent at various companies. I told her that those were due to the pandemic and contract work. She told me she was looking for people who wanted to work there, which was ironic given that she had just started working at that company two months ago after leaving her last company to follow her boss.


I received some excellent news yesterday. Happy Thursday.


December 2, 2023

A tough one.

It’s been a memorable week in the news: notable deaths, hostilities & war, more political upheaval, and an earthquake in the Philippines. A close friend of the family battling cancer has taken a turn for the worse. The decade continues to be a tough one.


Live in the Present

“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Review: “Huck” Issue One

Huck01_Cvr_362_549_s_c1 “Huck“, by writer Mark Millar and artist Raphael Albuquerque; published by Image Comics, is a story about the people of small town living with a special gift, named Huck.  We see Huck taking “super-human” action to recover something from the bottom of the lake…a small gold chain belonging to a woman named Diane.  We learn that Huck, as a baby, was left outside the doorstep of an orphanage with a note that read, “Please love him.”  This orphanage raised him to do a good everyday.

Huck always documented his good deed in a journal.  His good deeds consisted of pulling a truck from  a river, running to California delivering a Christmas card, helping remove a tree stump to clear space for someone’s new barn, buying lunch for everyone in the drive through line behind him (he wasn’t in a car) and taking out the trash for the entire town.  Diane encounters Huck, in the middle of a road, late one night noticing his shoeless feet wearing wet socks.  After a conversation the next day with her neighbor, Mrs. Tayler, Diane learns that Huck saved a missing fisherman.  “Huck just likes making people happy.”

One morning, Huck watches a television news report of two-hundred schoolgirls kidnapped in North Africa.  Hitching a ride on the outside of a passenger plane, Huck finds the kidnapped schoolgirls and conducts a rescue.  He gives them candy in exchange for the favor of keeping his identity a secret.  Diane, watching a television news report of the rescue, deduces that Huck saved them.  The next morning, Huck wakes to a crowd of reporters outside of his home.  The continuation is in “Huck” issue two.

I enjoyed reading the first issue.  The story is simplistically conveyed and the art is eye-catching.  Image comics released this issue in November and the second issue is out now.  It is a different take on a “Superman” type of story and it does a great job of selling the premise that the gift of happiness is in the little things we do.