Jasonisms

I went for a walk yesterday. It was at a trail I hadn't been to since Superbowl Sunday (2020). Total walk was about 7/8 miles. I didn't GPS it as that hasn't worked well in the past, but according to the signage it was just under 8 miles (under four out and under four back). 

Didn't really do much today. I was asked to come down and get up and running for working on a campaign. It's down to the wire and it's all hands on deck. Which means I probably won't get a chance to go camping before it gets too cold.

Yeah, you read that right. I've had blisters on my feet. Some have been large and painful while others have been small and painful. I noticed I was receiving these larger ones Everytime I wore a new pair of sandals.  So, I'm not wearing the sandals anymore.  This isn't even the largest blister I've had over the past couple of weeks. 

For those of you who have been paying attention, my roommate has been wooing a woman for over a year. I use the term loosely, of course.  He was dating this woman when I met him and moved in and she broke up with him a couple months later citing he was "too nice". I have it on good authority that "too nice" means she has no respect for you when she uses it as a break up term. Naturally, I'm not a woman so I'm going by what a couple of women have told to me.  After about 6 months they began speaking again. First it was conversations on the phone and then it was him driving the hour or so to see her. He even helped her pack up and move out of state when she decided to move back to her parent's place. While she was in North Dakota they spoke almost every night and somehow she was suddenly staying here for a week. Or was it weeks? Not her dog - his First of all, I don't know how the subject was broached. Did he offer our place to her or did she suggest i...

For those of you who are paying attention, I have exactly thirty days from today to move out of my current abode. This is the 30 day notice letter I just sent to my landlord to let him know I was not going to renew my lease. My Room Has the Window ​Hi Sack,  I certainly hope this email finds you suffering through Covid-19.    This is a courtesy to inform you that I will not be renewing the lease on this slum of a condo. I had decided last year when you took your sweet time repairing the place and making sure it's liveable after the two separate bouts of water damage from the upstairs. It was compounded by the toilet never having been fixed upon my move in and I know I brought it up before I took possession. You claimed to have fixed it, but you failed at even that. Apparently being cheap is paramount to being a good landlord.​ The VA took issue with the fact that the windows in two of three bedrooms do not open creating a hazard should immediate escape be necessary. ...

This last Saturday I drove into downtown Denver and met with some other veterans in a show of solidarity and support for SPC Guillen and all the other (young female) soldiers who don't believe they have the support and confidence in their chain-of-command.  While I didn't take too many photos of the walk (1, actually) I did meander around and take some photos of the murals put up by #BlackLivesMatter in Civic Center Park .  These are some of the photos, taken with my cell and tweaked with Snapseed. But first, the Veteran's Memorial that sits at the base of the capital's stairs. Now for the murals: There was also some graffiti from protestors on the state capital building. 

In the 90s I was stationed in Germany while serving in the Army. While there I met Christopher DePrater, aka Christopher M. DePrater, aka Christopher M D. On Facebook recently he posted this manifesto about why he's an unabashed member of TrumpNation.  The thing I don't get (I mean, DePrater has always been a bit stupid) is how he thinks Donald Trump is accomplishing anything. Sure, the (current) POTUS has had some wins in regards to closing the borders and once he installed William Barr as the Attorney General of the US he was given a blank check to break as many laws as he could hope to, but he hasn't really accomplished much to advance the US's interests, our freedoms or democracy.  In fact, Trump has done nothing for those interests. Instead, he's worked hard to advance interests that help Trump, Trump's businesses and his family's interests. He' wrapped himself in a cloak of racism as bigotry to appeal to his base and he's alienated nearly every...

Earlier today Google+ stopped working for me on the mobile app. I could still access notifications, but not my home screen. Turns out I wasn't alone and one of the few other Plussers left had experienced the same.  Luckily someone popped in and suggested coming to desktop and cycling the new Currents stream feed from intra-domain to inter-domain and that seemed to do the trick.  Pre-Toggle Post-Toggle This is a little thing, but it's a thing. I also played with the new Currents on desktop and found some functionality removed. Inter-domain communities are still there and you can even create new communities, even though they're invite-only and non-searchable.  Character markup is allowed through CTL- U / B / and whatever the one is for Strikethrough instead of * , _ and -.  Oh, and we went from multi-column view that was prevalent in the Ploos, to a single column view. Which isn't too bad as this blog and countless other websites use single column view, but like many ...

This gazebo is in O'Brien Park , Parker, CO. I walk past it every time I walk through the town's center and did so again today. Here are two images: The color image is a #SOOC photo and the #blackandwhite image is just a treatment I decided to try out.  Both were taken with my Android and the #BW one was edited with Snapseed. 

Went outside today. I was on this trail when the clouds rolled in. This trail take you out around the lip of a mesa where you get these glorious views of the valley below. This is looking east (previous images is looking west) The below image is looking south west before the clouds became too thick. 

One of my major complaints about social media is how people post. We've all seen these types of posters: 1 - The link-dumper . The person who just drops a URL off without any context. Whether it's to an article, a video or their own blog, they provide no reason for anyone to click through and see the content they're sharing.  2 - The not-Photographer . Unfortunately social media is packed with these people. They're the ones who flood to image sharing sites, pages or groups, and they post prolifically, yet none of the images are their own work. So, they join a group about black and white photography or dogs, or whatever, and their images are great - too great. So, you do some research - or as I've learned to do - ask them some technical questions about the shoot or post processing and whatcha them flounder. 3 - The Ambiguous Poster . These posters are a variation of the link-dumper. They post a random statements provide no context to why they're saying what they...

For those of you who know me, you know I have their fascination with maps. Especially maps from hand drawn cartography.  Here are a couple I found just today: The first one here is from 1671 and is of the (Abrahamic) holy lands.  This particular gem is a 19th century map of the St. John river in Florida, from Jacksonville to Lake Monroe. 

I have never used TokTok and considering I believe Facebook is too intrusive and therefore won't put it on any device I have, I don't I'll be using TikTok any time soon. Read more: https://www.boredpanda.com/tik-tok-reverse-engineered-data-information-collecting/

I grabbed this quick image the other day when walking last my neighbor's house. It's nothing special but it's orange.

Does anyone else find it ironic that a channel calling itself trusted news and fair and balanced keeps going to court to argue they're not actually a news program? https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/fox-news-lawyer-suggests-no-reasonable-viewer-would-think-tucker-carlson-is-news/