Up until a few months ago I was writing quite a few posts, but nothing was good enough to publish. I was really stuck in my head, and would go in circles. My blogs tend to follow the form of planning, doing, and recap. During my COVID year, I wasn’t able to plan. Today I…
Author: margrad80
I am a retired Merchant Mariner, a retired Marine Surveyor, and a currently active novelist. I am starting this blog to follow my life in retirement, as I follow a more inconvenient life.
We Never had Paris.
During my last dinner with Gina we talked about meeting up in Paris in 2020. You might think that Covid19 upset our plans, but it was much worse than that. Covid would have just been a delay, a year or a decade. A few months after I left Warsaw Gina was diagnosed with cancer. Seven…
It feels like being home!
When I was getting ready to leave Houston, I knew that I was going to want to self isolate when I got to Mexico. I bought a bunch of food to keep me going for awhile, and packed it all into a checked bag, totally violating my minimalist traveler ethic. These are strange times. A…
I violate standards!
What can I say about this? When has calling someone lazy hate speech? I am sorry Facebook, but you give a platform for all the bat-shit-crazies to spew an unending stream of disinformation. When I say that all you have to do is look around and see how lazy people are you label it as…
SDV: A Blogger Escapes the Real World, Part 14
Once I had harvested my crops, I realized that I needed to get some seeds from the general store. I checked the Community Center bundle and saw what crops I needed. When Ot to the store, a cut scene was triggered. Even with a lot of fishing and foraging the beach, I didn’t have enough…
SDV: A Blogger Escapes the Real World, Part 13
On the first day of summer, the remaining spring crops are withered, and the farm is cluttered with windfall wood, weeds, and stone. I know that on this day I will be busy planting my summer crops and cleaning the place up. None were, so I headed back to the farm. I realized that it…
SDV: A Blogger Escapes the Real World, Part Twelve
Waking up on the 25th day of spring I see that my ax is ready, but it is a lucky day, so I decide to put off picking up the ax, and headed right to the mine, after doing my farm chores. Working down from level 40 to 50, I received a pair of tundra…
SDV: A Blogger Escapes the Real World, Part Eleven
Having gathered enough copper to make five more copper bars, I was ready to go over to the blacksmith to have him upgrade my pickax. It was the 20th day of spring. On the way I stopped at the bulletin board and saw that George was willing to pay someone a fee to bring him…
SDV: A Blogger Escapes the Real World, Part Ten
The next morning, I remembered it was the day of the egg festival, so I didn’t bother to watch the fortune teller. It wouldn’t have any effect on the day’s activities. I didn’t have long at the farm to work before I would get the notice that the festival had started. After tending the garden…
SDV: A Blogger Escapes the Real World, Part Nine
The 11th day of spring starts with a plea from Robin, the carpenter, for me to help find her favorite ax. Could use the money for sure. After tending my garden and giving up on digging up some clay, it was late enough for the blacksmith to be open. I headed out, stopping at every…