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Saturday, August 27, 2022

August 27th Is Weird

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It's been about eight years since I happened upon a digital camera & started taking pictures when I was out & about.  I've h...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Plans Are Like Pants

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(image from here ) One of the almost certainly not amusing things I do is often deliberately confuse the words "plans" & ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Self Help Radio 082322: Turquoise

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(original image here .) Here it is. A radio show about turquoise. Which is a mineral which is prized as a gem which gives its name to a colo...
Monday, August 22, 2022

Whither Turquoise?

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(image from here .) The story of a turquoise radio show is a bit circuitous but perhaps it's interesting. It begins with a memory & ...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

Preface To Turquoise: Has This Ever Happened Before?

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(image from here .) This week's Self Help Radio has the theme turquoise. But why? I'll tell you that tomorrow. Something interesting...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

Where We Met

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(All images on this page courtesy of Gurple Merps ) On this day in 2001, twenty-one years ago, at a bus stop at Duval & 48th in Austin, ...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Wasting Time At The Movies

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(image from the IMDb ) Did you know that on lucky weeks Self Help Radio's resident cinephile Chuck stops by to talk about movies related...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Self Help Radio 081622: Wasting Time

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We at Self Help Radio know that the world is designed to maximize the amount of time you can waste at any given moment.  With that in mind, ...
Monday, August 15, 2022

Whither Wasting Time?

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(image from here ) Self Help Radio's theme this week is "wasting time."  Is it because listening to Self Help Radio is a waste...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

Preface To Wasting Time: Top Wastes Of Time

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(Wish I knew where I found this! Schulz would not be pleased.) We conducted an informal poll amongst ourselves, my pets & I, to determin...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

The Welcome Back

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On August 13, 2016, we'd been back in Texas for less than two weeks.  It had not been a happy return - my wife hated the house we rented...
Friday, August 12, 2022

Spring Was Lovely This Year

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Over on my personal Facebook page but also on the Self Help Radio Tumblr  I've been sharing some of the lovely pictures of spring that I...
Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Self Help Radio 080922: Attics

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What might happen on a radio show about attics?  I mean, you know, besides all the songs about attics?  Might a phrogger be hiding in the at...
Monday, August 08, 2022

Whither Attics?

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Attics are delightful & creepy. They're mysterious & a bit frightening. I wish I had grown up with an attic to play in. & I ...
Sunday, August 07, 2022

Preface To Attics: I Once Had An Attic

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& it looked like that. This was when we lived in Huntington, West Virginia, from the summer of 2009 to the summer of 2010.  It was quite...
Saturday, August 06, 2022

Three Snapshots Of August 6, 2017

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Five years ago, I was living in Fort Worth, Texas.  Summers in Texas are brutal.  Possibly on our morning walk, I took this picture, which I...
Friday, August 05, 2022

Fire On My Street

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Behold! A page from a neighborhood newspaper called The Bee, which is online here , reported on a fire that happened ON MY STREET it's t...
Tuesday, August 02, 2022

Self Help Radio 080222: The Middle

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(I tried to get the bear right in the middle...) Thinking about the middle things that are  not  represented on this show - the Middle Way (...
Monday, August 01, 2022

Whither The Middle?

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(image from here .) Tonight's Self Help Radio on KBOO has the theme "the middle."  What might that mean?  Middle of the road (...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Preface To The Middle: Middle School

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(My old middle school is no longer a middle school. Image from Gurple Marps .) Memorial Middle School was my middle school, which I attended...