We’ve had Koi since September 2024 (Sept. 4th to be exact). The only way I can describe her is joyful.
Category: Miscellaneous
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Vacation time…
I’m heading off on a week’s vacation and looking forward to it. Hoping to be able to get a jump on this year’s book list. I’ve got quite a few candidates which I’ll list out later.
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2026 – Book Completed – Clown Town
This is the ninth book in the ‘Slow Horses’ series. I enjoyed it but it is not as good as the others in the series.
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2026 – Book Completed – Hell is Empty
Another Craig Johnson book. Love his style of writing and I enjoyed the story.
Note that the cover is wrong. Netflix dropped the show and Paramount picked it up.
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2026 – Can I read 52 books in 52 weeks?
In 2025 I read 32 books… so I missed my goal of 52 by quite a bit.
For 2026 my goal is to, again, read 52 books in the calendar year. Some of these are fast reads others…not so much.
Also; the links below are to Amazon but they are not affiliate links so you can’t make me rich this way.
- Hell is Empty, Author: Craig Johnson – 01/03/2026
- Clown Town, Author: Mick Herron – 01/12/2026
- Abundance, Author: Ezra Klein, Derik Thompson – Reading
- Brothers, Author: Alex Van Halen – Reading
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Book Completed: Cassino ’44: The Brutal Battle for Rome
The Italian campaign was just absolutely brutal. This book outlines this up until the capture of Rome. The fight for Cassino was just two forces bashing their heads together with the resulting casualties. Terrible.
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“I’m the champion”
This came up because I won the NCAA tourney bracket with the boys in 2024. Still applies…
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Book completed: The Darkest Summer: Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea–and the Marines–from Extinction
I enjoyed this one. I knew that the drawdown of American forces after World War II was extreme but not this extreme. Also; what was MacArthur thinking in allowing forces to go up to the Yalu?!
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Arcade Legends!
We’ve got an old Ultracade Arcade Legends cabinet that died a few years ago. These are old (2005 is this machines vintage I think) PC based machines with a CRT in a really nice cabinet. When I got it I also got the installation CD, USB stick and the manual.
I couldn’t find those items for the life of me. Looked everywhere… except the place where they were actually filed away….god forbid…even organized.
I think it’s just the hard drive that needs replacing. I’ll see if I can get a solid state stick and use that too get this thing up and running again.
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Why is Safari using the drive that I backup the machine to?
When I need to take my laptop with me somewhere I get this message a lot. All I’m trying to do is eject the disk. Why is Safari using it?
