SB Hopper

Just for the halibut (trust me, there will be a rolling of the eyes)

I'm eating too much and exercising...let's call it infrequently. I know it's winter, and PNW winters encourage big bowls of soup and stew mopped up with bread. Mmmm, bread and soup. But this is getting out of hand. The belt buckle never lies.

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Plans

I know I can be a downer sometimes. I blame some of it on the medium. I think if we were sitting down having an actual conversation, it would come

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It's been a while

Well, I sure dropped out of sight for a while. I think the pandemic and a lot of other depressing news caught up to me. I just wasn't excited about

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The Essentials

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Wasn't always grey...

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Corvus

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The Irish were born for leaving...

...otherwise the world would have no pubs. It's a line in the trailer for Belfast, and I might have misquoted it. The movie looks fantastic, and I can't wait to

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Print your work...

...but be more organized than I am. And don't listen to people who tell you what to do. You're not the boss of me! But for me, man, viewing photos

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Seasons roll on by

I chatted with a neighbor today while a city worker took photos of his house for historical documentation. His house and the one next to it (maybe others, too) will be replaced by an 8-story apartment building. He and his wife bought the house

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A Fallen Son

I caught up with an old friend tonight, and it was fantastic. As the hour approached, I threw up the usual road-blocks. I'm tired. I'm reclusive. Can I reschedule? Grateful

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Never give your parents grief

It's a pretty solid rain right now in Seattle. We're very close to the I'm always cold season. It doesn't matter how many layers one wears...always a little cold.

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An Unreliable Narrator

I have been out with friends a few times the past week or two, and inevitably portions of the discussions involved COVID. I've started describing my experience with a breakthrough

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Here comes the rain again

It was a dark, windy, and rainy night. Sounds like we're going to get drenched here in the Pacific Northwest. Stay safe everyone! Let's hope it helps with western wildfires. I thought this was a pretty cool description from the National Weather Service: Given

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Norwich on Caesar

John Julius Norwich never disappoints. Wikipedia describes his as a popular historian, which probably means academics wouldn't regard him highly. Who cares. I read his fantastic history of Byzantium, and I was hooked. Flipping through The Middle Sea, a History of the Mediterranean, and

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Carthage Must Be Destroyed

Carthāgō dēlenda est. ~ Cato (via Wikipedia) The sirens beckon. I am lost in the ancient world. A re-discovery of sorts. I spent the last 6 years or so not wanting to think too much about the Middle East. I'd had enough, for a lot