But We Still Have The Radio

Normally, I wouldn't use this blog for store issues, but today is an exception.  For the past decade or so, we have been having trouble getting my favorite radio station at the store.  At first, it was an occasional problem.  It started when the center moved a light fixture, that caused a little interference.  Then, another station started boosting its signal so much that it would bleed up to ten stations away on the dial.  Whether or not it did this or another source caused the effect is unknown.  Then a second radio station started to be cutting in, one so weak that I have trouble even hearing it on my car radio just outside.  Even then, the position of cars parked in front could make the signal stronger or more static sounding.  Finally, we had to have the light fixtures changed due to safety issues a few years ago,  They are causing even more interference, all the time.  The only way to hear my favorite station with as little static as possible is to turn off half the lights and then turn them back on when someone comes in.  But only the rear lighting, as turning off the front doesn't have as much of an effect.  Even slight turnings of the antenna can cause a big change in signal strength, sometimes by pointing it in the 'wrong' direction from the broadcast tower!  I can barely take it anymore, so much so that I had to blog about it and use a partial Modest Mouse song lyric for a title.

Digital Creator's Bottomless Globe Is Smashed By The First

I don't have any ideas about how to write about what I want to write about today.  I kind of thought I would do something puzzling, but now I just don't feel like it.  I haven't had much time to compose much beyond today's title, which is a nod to a certain type of puzzle that I really like.  Really, I had everything thought up and didn't have any problems.  I just don't want to write on the subject I had been planning to write about for the last three days.  That's right, I initially had planned today's post in advance.  At the last second, I changed my mind.  Literally, at the last second.  Just after I typed in today's title last second.  For some reason, it just didn't resonate with me anymore.  There is just that feeling that I shouldn't go with what I had been planning, and just go with what I was feeling.  The fact that I had to wait and additional five minutes or so before I could start has nothing to do with it.  It doesn't.  The thing is, well I have no idea what the thing is.  I am just not feeling "it" today.  I have so much to say, but I don't want to say it.  By the way, as an additional clue for the title, I has seven letters.  It has nothing to do with my spherical recreation of the earth not having a southern polar region that is going to be destroyed be the end of the month.  At least, I don't think it does.

What Is a Six Letter Word for Game

I am having trouble working with everything lately.  Not only haven't I figured out that contest I mentioned last time, but I am facing difficulties working with the computer again.  I am getting frustrated, so much.  Usually, I am good to great at figuring this type of thing out.  Today, not so much.  Everything I am trying to do on the computer seems to be flailing.  Nothing is going my way.  That is a problem I frequently get with puzzles sometimes.  I get an answer, but I don't know how I got there, so I have to go over my thought process again to make sure I did things correctly, and not just jump the gun.  Sometimes, I get a solution, but I don't know how I got there.  Did I solve it correctly?  I sometimes find different ways to get a solution, sometimes by going for the "meta" solution of that type of puzzle instead of the way the constructor intended.  I have been working a lot of different type of puzzles lately, many of which I don't usually do.  I fear I am getting too into the work and ignoring the actual working behind the puzzle itself.  My mind has taken enough for today, so I guess I finish off now.

Will I Finally Learn to Stop Sabotaging Myself

Well, I seem to be at a standoff again with my time.  I have two appointments to get to after I finish this post, so I will have to be brief again.  I had just enough time to check some e-mail and to do a quick search for a possible answer to a contest I might want to enter.  I  may have found an answer, or at least the first part of an answer.  Still, I am sabotaging myself with the lack of time.  How is it that every time I do my weekly blog post, something always seems to come up?  Also, I have the nagging feeling that some of the words are misspelled, but they aren't being flagged.  I am not that bad at spelling, so I am sure the suspect words are spelled correctly.   They just look and feel wrong to me.  Ah well, I guess it is alright.  One last thing, the address for the Booknotes blog has changed.  I am putting the new address as soon as I can confirm it, as the site is not loading right now.

This Blog Has Been Interupted by an (Un)Important Message

My last post had a few problems with it.  Namely, someone interrupted me right in the middle of writing, saying I needed to hurry up , but without giving me a reason why.  It turns out that she had heard  a beep suggesting that a "warning had been issued for your area" and precautions should be made.  Of course, she didn't hear what the warning was about.  Because of the forecast, I thought it was for a severe thunderstorm warning.  At the least, I could have expected a power fluctuation that could have erased what I was working on.  I turns out that it was for a flash flood warning due to strong, not severe, storms training through the area.  I didn't find this out for almost an hour because no other media outlet seemed to be mentioning or updating the warning at the exact moment I was looking for more information.  Although I noticed some higher water levels,  and muddier levels at that, I don't think there was any actual flooding that day.  Still, I almost want to complain about how weather warnings should be handled, but my mind seems to be outpacing my fingers once again and I am making too many typing mistakes to continue.  Maybe next time.