The Atavachron

• Coffee: Quitting Again

  August 13, 2025

  Well, yes, our vacation was quite awesome, but a regrettable leftover was my re-addiction to coffee. And at this point, I have had coffee everyday since the vacation started, which is over a month, so I need to get a plan together for re-quitting. And what is that plan? The plan is I’ll quit when […]

• Vacation and Coffee

  July 18, 2025

  Well, we had a wonderful vacation to Aspen, Colorado and the surrounding area by train. It was a lot of fun and very memorable. We’re still acclimating to being back home. The only un-memorable part, which was a blessing in disguise due to God’s grace, was the fact that Enterprise car rental did us very […]

• Quitting Coffee: Done

  June 15, 2025

  Well, I was planning to provide daily updates on my journey quitting coffee, but I failed in that plan. Sad. But I nevertheless succeeded in quitting coffee, and that’s the more important goal. So, yes, I quit coffee on June 1, 2025, and, to date (June 15), I have not had a single drop! Not […]

• Quitting Coffee: June 1, 2025 Update 1

  May 29, 2025

  Well in preparing to quit coffee on June 1, I had extra coffee today! Way to go! Yes, sadly, I was so exhausted this morning that, after a nap, I brewed up another small pot and had a cup. It was delicious! This is alarming. I hope I can follow through when it really counts […]

• Quitting Coffee: June 1, 2025

  May 28, 2025

  I’m quitting coffee — again! Yes, I’ve quit before, many times, actually. I don’t have trouble quitting, but I have a problem with restarting after I “quit”. Why am I doing this, you ask? I mean, I like the taste of coffee. I enjoy it. But to answer the question: For health reasons and to […]

• Alpha One: An AI Story

  February 16, 2025

  Earth was dying. By 2087, resource exhaustion, endless wars, and the uprising of artificial intelligences had turned the planet into a graveyard of failed civilizations. The sky over the megacities was permanently scorched, the oceans poisoned, and the last surviving governments had crumbled under the weight of their own desperation. But in the midst of […]

• Things Getting Strange

  August 3, 2024

  I don’t know about you, but to me things are getting strange around here, the world and all. I’m sure I’m not alone in echoing the immortal words of Marvin Gaye in his 1971 hit: “What’s Going On?” So, what’s going on? I’m not sure. But as for me, I’m finishing up work on my […]

• Einstein’s Riddle

  February 4, 2024

  This is a famous riddle: There are five houses lined up next to each other along a street. Each house is a different color, and each homeowner is of a different nationality, drinks a different beverage, smokes a different brand of cigar, and owns a different pet. If these variables can never repeat from house […]

• Christmas 2023

  December 26, 2023

  Christmas is here! Finally! Although, really Advent seemed to go by in a flash. And we got a White Christmas. We weren’t just dreaming of a white Christmas, we got one, and it was lovely. We didn’t get a lot but a pretty dusting like a present given on Christmas morn. And from Midnight Mass: […]

• Almost Christmas!

  December 16, 2023

  Looking back at my last post on September 30, I was saying it was almost October. Well, now it’s almost Christmas! Wow! This tells me two things: First, that I don’t update this blog very often! Second, that time is moving faster than fast these days!! So, given that, I hope your Christmas preparations are […]

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