I haven't written much about it, but I've been playing The Elder Scrolls games for a while.Today is the 15th anniversary of the biggest game in the series: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. On the small chance

Welcome to the finale for 2026. What will the next two months bring? What does 2027 have in store for us? I have no idea, but nobody from the future has traveled back and tried to stop me from making a

It looks like the Democrats won enough seats to take a majority in both the House and Senate next year. Do they have any real plans to fix the problems of American domestic and foreign policy? No, but

As I post this, it will soon will be Election Day across the United States. For those who have not yet cast a ballot by mail, and still intend to play a role in the biennial federal charade, get ready

I hesitate to make too much of my day-to-day struggles, but October has been a challenge. Unless I start selling stuff seriously, I am broke. Cold weather has set in, and I ache even more than usual thanks

As of this post, we are a week from election day. A decade ago, I wrote, Should Christians Vote? In the time since then, I have learned a lot. None of it has changed that root question, or my answer to

Taking a quick break from going through my archives to remind everyone that Power Up Day happens on November 1st, and anyone who wants to power up needs to save or buy liquid HIVE before the GMT clock

The following essay was published anonymously by Benjamin Franklin in 1773, when he was in London advocating for colonial interests. The image to the right is a portrait from 1767, just a few years prior.

User @karenb54 had been spamming links to a "Hive airdrop" in comments. This is a scam. Do not click. Do not enter your keys. No one needs your private keys to send you anything, just your user

Has it already been a month since I shared my floor plan rough draft? Apparently. Never fear, the project continues, even if at a snail's pace! I have been making many changes to the floor plan, digging

Ever since my account started on the original beta blockchain, I have had good intentions to create an archive of links to everything I have written. Since I had no clue what I was doing when I started,

It has been a few days since my last post, and on the off chance anyone is waiting with bated breath for my next Rough Drafts architecture post, it is in the works. I have been somewhat under the weather,

On September 17, 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention wrote the United States Constitution, and started the process to replace the Articles of Confederation which had previously governed the

Hopefully, this will become a series of posts about drafting and design under an overarching Rough Draft title. Several days ago, I wrote about two problems: the decline of starter homes and retirement

One of the great things about the HIVE ecosystem is the lack of censorship. Unfortunately, that means trolls and spammers still get to continue their nonsense even after being downvoted into negative

25 years ago, the world changed. September 11th, 2001 was an inflection point. We didn't know it at the time, but we woke up in one world, and transitioned into another over the course of the day. Life

Earlier today, I decided to scramble some eggs for a quick, nutritious midafternoon meal. I used some storebought onion, some zucchini from the Mother Thing, and some eggs from a friend's chickens. As

Monday was Labor Day in the USA, so today I decided to celebrate songs with "work" in the title, except with the twist that they have nothing whatsoever to do with the labor movement or economic

Millennials have seen the traditional starter homes fade from the market. Baby boomers are retiring and discovering that homes friendly to the elderly are in short supply as well. Renovating homes for

Last week, I shared three songs from three major fantasy role-playing game franchises: Final Fantasy, The Legend of Zelda, and The Elder Scrolls. This week, let's lean a bit more science fiction. Halo