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Da_Gut

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Computer geek! Over 50, Comics, nature, TTRPGs, superheroes, and stuff! I just moved to Maine.
#nobridge #ttrpg

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The Many Colored Land by Julian May.... from back in 1982.

How is it?

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Da_Gut, to books
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Dracula Daily?
While browsing my local library's online items, I stumbled on this. I had never heard of Dracula daily - did anyone participate? What did you think? I expect it will take place this year..

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Let's read Dracula together! We'll start on May 3rd and each day, read only what happens to the characters on that day. Sound good? Let’s go. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is an epistolary novel—it’s made up of letters, diaries, telegrams, newspaper clippings—and every part of it has a date. The whole story happens between May 3rd and November 6th. Dracula Daily, however, is a lightly remixed adaptation. I've rearranged Dracula to be strictly chronological, divided into days, so we can get all the characters experiences as the story happens. It was originally started in 2021 as an email newsletter. You sign up at draculadaily.com and get an email each day that something happens to the characters in the same timeline that it happens to them. Some days theres a lot of activity, some days just a few sentences, and many days nothing at all. You only get an email when there’s action taking place in Dracula. But this book is a handy way to get the same experience on paper. You can read along with Jonathan and Mina and Jack and the crew in ‘real time; using the innovative technology of a ribbon bookmark. Start on May 3rd. Stop when you get to the end of that day. Place your bookmark there, and pick up the book again on May 4th. Voila! The stretched-out reading cadence of Dracula Daily—some days with only a few paragraphs, some days a whole <...> You'll feel the distances and durations the characters traverse. Fair warning: you'll need to set aside a lot of time for October 3rd.

Da_Gut, to tv
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Mind you, my wife had never seen an episode of Columbo. She has now.

Da_Gut, to maine
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Mount Katahdin, highest point in Maine.

Da_Gut, to nature
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How many folks ever stepped barefoot in a fresh cow pattie growing up?

I can't be the only one!

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Look, waffle house needs to get their asses in gear and expand. I lived in Nebraska. No Waffle House (one in Lincoln, other side of the state).
I lived in Minnesota. Not Waffle House. Now I live in Maine, No Waffle House.

This, is not acceptable.

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I hope everyone had a great day, and a great eclipse if you were in the path!

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Friends just headed out today to drive from Las Vegas to Portland Maine.
That's a trip.

Da_Gut, to maine
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It's springtime in Maine. These colors won't last long.

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Well, I went to my primary care doctor yesterday, and had a bunch of labs done.
In the words of my wife "They are disgustingly good". (She is jealous of my cholesterol reading).
My A1C is a bit high (I've had diabetes for a while) but just barely over what we want it.
Everything else checks out... the low side of normal.
Interesting!

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Used bookstore in Bangor Maine. Pro Libris bookstore. Doesn't take credit cards. Catagories include "Financial Blather" and "Artish".

Zoom in on the business card in the upper left corner - that is why its tagged ttrpg.

Used bookstore in Bangor Maine. Pro Libris bookstore. Doesn't take credit cards. Cluttered shelves, a plastic chair, an overflowing book cart.

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It’s Monday after the “good” timechange. So why am i so discombobulated?

Da_Gut, to books
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How many people still buy and use physical calendars? Whether wall, or desk? And how old are you?

#books #time #organization #calendar

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My brain just locked up. Total non performance

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Maine has a crazy number of fireflies compared to North Ga. In North GA, they are almost gone - or at least, not anywhere near the abundance of my youth.
Here there are more colors and more types than we ever had back in Georgia. I like this!

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Ha! Love it! I'm watching a Youtube reaction video. It features 2 young women who've never seen the Terminator (and kudos to them for correcting the terrible life error this represents).
A comment they make about phone books "Isn't it so wild that it was a thing where you could get peoples addresses and phone numbers out of books just around town?"

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Oh, if you go to youtube and search for "greyhound" zoomies dog park, its amusing. When a greyhound takes off, all the other dogs decide to chase it. And well..... the speed difference is amusing.

Trying to cut the circle there Bud? Let me put on a touch more speed.

Da_Gut, to books
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the giant Bolverk tells Skafloc,... “Many heroes have owned this sword, because it brings victory to the wielder. There is naught on which it does not bite, nor does it ever grow dull of edge. Venom is in the steel, and the wounds it gives cannot be healed by leechcraft or magic or prayer. Yet this is the curse on it: that every time it is drawn it must drink blood, and that in the end, somehow, it brings the bane of him who uses it.”

Anderson, Poul The Broken Sword

Da_Gut, to maine
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Tomatoes in the produce competition, Blue Hill Fair, Maine.

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, we did not see the Aurora last night, but these are the lights of town.

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There was a steady stream of Alewives up the fish ladder in Newport - not constant, but steady.

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This reactor was watching "Airplane" (good movie)

Quote: "I feel like I'm on something. And I know I'm not"

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Would an AM or FM radio station be easier to maintain in a Post Apocalyptic world? How much power would a decent size radio station take to operate? (Mainly the broadcasting tower).

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Oh hey, the original Alien is coming back to Theaters for a run. Never seen it (I'll fix that this time around) but good gaming material to watch here.

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My wife and I finally (finally!) had a conversation about my increasing memory loss. And growing signs of early dementia.

It's something I've been wanting to do for a couple of years. She is quite upset, but I made my peace with it a while ago. It's just getting impossible to ignore.

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