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Look at Me, Read My Interstate-Bio and Meet My Dog — Silicon Valley, California Born and raised in San Jose, California, before it was Silicon Valley. Looking back, I feel very blessed to have seen and lived in that different era of the San Francisco Bay Area. Remembering the farmlands and orchards, our mom used to take us out to the fields and the…

Setting the stage and scripting my life for the years ahead — I haven’t written in nearly four months, but I wanted to make it a point to post at least a little something on day one of this promising new year. 2021 has been an exceptionally challenging year, to state the obvious. So, while briefly recapping why I haven’t written in…

September 11th is My Birthday and Here’s What I Want — Service is my happy place. I enjoy occasionally volunteering in soup kitchens, buying fireworks from the stand to help support the local kids, donating old cell phones to domestic abuse shelters. …

When your human brain and your computer brain are boggy, set yourself free. — Hey, Google, really hoping you can help me out. I know you are more than just a google search engine. Can you google for me a way to set me free? Free from the maddening vicious cycle of my computer repeatedly freezing when I’m on a hot project. …

Why oh Why Don’t You Proofread Your Outrage? — There’s a rant then there’s verbal abuse. But hey, what do I know? Why allow such anger to consume you? I understand frustration of sometimes being exposed to embarrassingly poorly written posts. But to spew such vitriol at the writers you’re supposedly here to help? Yikes. It’s one thing to…

Then There Was Killjoy. Who Invited Mom Anyway? — Fresh off the plane, the family was tired but smiling, not grumpy. Count on Mom to dampen the mood and they only just arrived for their Vegas Vacation. Feeling sentimental about my cabbie days. It’s time to revisit Las Vegas tourists. I’ll never regret leaving that job, but I do…

A Look into Content Quality and Quantity with Charts — I took some time to study six Medium Top Writers, six posts from their profiles and a bonus seventh, the only post revealing the author. Chose not to reveal the writers. Exactly who they are doesn’t matter for the purpose of this post. *Gasp!* Blasphemedium! The people behind the writings…

Get Back to Basics with the Good ol’ Standby, ebay — When I saw my first sale within a few minutes after starting my listings today on ebay I knew I had to share the news. Need fast-cash? — Sell your stuff! Many years, about 20 years ago I played around with selling stuff on ebay but never took it very…

Let’s Have Comedy Night and Laugh Our A**es Off — I can’t be the only one. Ever want to go see your Medium buddies? Tell me you have your favorite people here on Medium. You know you secretly want to drive over to hang out with them, a bottle of wine (or two), eat all the junk food, drink all the…