Over the last few months (since November 5) I’ve had days when I’m fearful, anxious, sad, angry, distraught, etc. Rarely do I have days that are hopeful or optimistic. This morning, I woke up around 4 am. I couldn’t go back to sleep, so I pulled out my phone, played a few games and checked …
Category Archives: Personal
Emotional Rollercoaster
During the last three days, I like many, many others I have been experiencing a lot of varied and conflicting emotions. Among them are hope, disbelief, disappointment, sadness, anger, fear, trepidation and terror as well as many others that are negative. Earlier this morning, I was experiencing hopelessness. I couldn’t go back to sleep so …
Independence Day No More
Today is July 4, 2024. Today we commemorate the 248th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence from England. Normally, I would enjoy waking up to listen to NPR and their annual reading of that document. It always makes me proud that we live in a country where the people, through elected representatives, make the laws …
Ageism
Ageism is a concept that. when I was younger, I heard the word “ageism” and had a vague concept of what it was. As I’ve gotten older, the concept has gotten clearer. The World Health Organization defines ageism as the stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination against people on the basis of their age. It says it’s …
Transitioning Again
I’m a computer person from way back (1981 or so). I’ve done a lot of tech jobs in that time including help desk, desktop support, teaching and programming. My most current gig was as a contract developer (programmer) for a consulting company (Bucher + Christian), here in Indianapolis, Indiana. I worked at the Lilly Corporate …
Goodbye Friend
On Thursday, April 16 a friend of mine passed away at the age of 96. Her name was Helen M. Everitt. She and I used to work at the Scott County Public Library together in Scottsburg, Indiana when I was a page there. She was one of my favorite people with whom to work. She …
I'm here!
My name is Mike aka Monad or the AtomicDwarf. I’m not really a dwarf, but I thought of the names Monad and AtomicDwarf over 20 years ago when I was regularly playing Dungeons & Dragons. I had a dwarven fighter character who I named Monad. Like me, he was typical of his people. While most …