Don't Ask Me; I'm Making This Up As I Go Along

A largely personal blog with much silliness, Tales of the Babe & Me and of Susan the Wonderchild, lots of cat photos, and other miscellaneous stories and observations.

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

"I don't need a flu shot; I'm strengthening my immune system!"

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One of the most common bleats from antivaxxers (well, apart from crap about "autism," "big pharma," or "mercury!...
Sunday, March 04, 2018

How I got my wish

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Back when I was 20-21, I was going through the typical "But I don't know what I want to do in my life!" angst. I talked for a ...

"But if we get rid of Trump, we're stuck with Pence!"

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For over a year now, people have been saying "But if we get rid of Trump, we'll have Pence. And he's worse." I have a few ...
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Friday, February 02, 2018

Trump is a narcissist and why that makes a difference

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(Note: I wrote this January 11, 2017, on FB, but seeing how many times it's been reposted since then, I think I'd like to save it. T...
Saturday, September 09, 2017

Started back at the gym this week

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I've started back at the gym this week. As I expected, after 4 months away from the gym, I'm only at 50-60% of the weight I was up...
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Monday, August 21, 2017

Tree of Heaven, aka "stinking sumac"

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We rediscovered the name of the obnoxious weed tree in our yard. (We'd been told but we'd forgotten.) It's Tree-of-Heaven, ailan...
Monday, August 14, 2017

How to choose a good apple (even Red Delicious!)

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Choosing good apples when you're shopping is a challenge. Just from looking at an apple, you don't know if it's going to be cris...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Relationship improvements

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A couple months ago, The Babe said that she wanted me to change a behavior: whenever she'd say "Do you wanna do X," I'd in...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

How I acquired Sanchez the cat

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From 2011 to early 2014, I was living during the week in an apartment in Beaverton, OR, working a contract. Sanchez--known then to one and a...
Monday, July 10, 2017

A banjo story from my past

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Back in the early 90s, I was doing a concert in Portland about 25 years ago and that thing we always worry about happening in concerts happe...
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Let's try this again....

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Good heavens, life just ROLLS along! I think I'll just say one thing here: Don't assume the unexpected will be what you expect. T...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Joke du jour

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Q: How do you make a pirate angry? A. Knock the P out of him.
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John Hedtke
Fircrest, Washington, United States
I live in Fircrest, WA, married, 5 stepchildren who I'm mighty fond of, and 6 granddaughters who I extremely fond of. I write books, magazine articles, white papers, documentation, online help... most anything, even buttons for a button company. I've published about 8 million, which is quite a pile.

We have two cats, a 17yo tabby/Siamese mix and an 18-pound black cat who's fairly obnoxious.

The Babe and I play a lot of gin rummy together at restaurants and we bowl. All this may sound disgustingly humdrum, but I'm just giving you the few points of contact with a consensual normalcy amidst a backdrop of periodic chaos and excitement with travel, conferences, and cruises to exotic foreign shores.
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