Hi kiddos. It’s been a while. My last blog was at the end of December, 2023. Not really sure what sparked the hiatus then. I will admit that what took me a while to get back here was forgetting how to log back in. But, if you know me, and I assuming you do if… Continue reading Mile High in Montana
Author: popcornjack
December 28, 2023
Rain doesn’t bother me nearly as much as it used to. As a kid, I had a love/hate relationship with it. I loved it when I had nothing to do and could go out and play in it (or stay inside and ignore it.) But I hated, Hated, HATED if it was raining when I… Continue reading December 28, 2023
December 21, 2023
Success is something that is easy to define but hard to pin down. The easy part is recognizing it means being ahead of a previous position. The hard part is determining what the better position really means. If I take a test once and get a certain grade on it, then retake that same test… Continue reading December 21, 2023
December 14, 2023
I want to talk a bit about Ego. Ego is a powerful tool and an equally powerful weapon. It’s like a magic wand handed to us without an instruction booklet. Some people learn how to wield it just right, using enough to propel them forward positively, enhancing their growth. But many others founder on one… Continue reading December 14, 2023
July 17, 2023
There’s an interesting side-effect to being smart enough to recognize my struggles with mental illness and dumb enough to think I can solve/fix/heal/treat them on my own. I spend a lot of time traveling down various rabbit holes of theory and treatment options, each of them looking like they might have some promise. Ironically, what… Continue reading July 17, 2023
June 1, 2023
Last week, I wrote about my upcoming trip to see Dead & Company, and if I could feel like a kid again, like I had some 30-odd years ago. Results are in, polls are closed, and the surveys all say yes. What’s most interesting, for me at least, is the singular place their music holds… Continue reading June 1, 2023
May 23, 2023
About a month ago, right around Earth Day (that comes into play very quickly), I got the song “Throwing Stones” by the Grateful Dead stuck in my ear. You can listen to it here. Even though it was written in the 1980’s it still has in its DNA the hippie ethos so often aligned with… Continue reading May 23, 2023
May 9, 2023
My first bartending job was at a Pizzeria Uno’s on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, directly behind the Museum of Natural History. My apartment at that time was on the Lower East Side, sitting in the shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge. This necessitated taking two different subways to get home. Usually, this wasn’t too… Continue reading May 9, 2023
May 2, 2023
Before this past weekend, the “worst” road trip I took was a few decades ago, when I drove from Hartford, CT to Raleigh, NC for the weekend. I say “worst” not because of how it turned out, or the level of fun we had, but by ratio of travel time vs. fun time. And when… Continue reading May 2, 2023
Apil 28, 2023
Good and bad are probably the two worst words when it comes to describing something. Basically, they are the shortest of shorthand, as so many other adjectives fall under one or the other, yet all of those almost ask for further explanation. If you tell me something was great or inspiring or amazing, I’m probably… Continue reading Apil 28, 2023
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