Category: Personal Thoughts
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Thoughts & Musings for August 14, 2020
Hello and welcome to another installment of Thoughts & Musings, the section of A Certain Point of View, Too where I don’t write reviews, politically-themed opinion pieces, or talk about ongoing or past projects. Those are my favorite things to blog about, but sometimes it’s nice to mimic Seinfeld and blog about…well, not quite nothing,…
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Musings & Thoughts for August 11, 2020
Musings & Thoughts, August 11, 2020 Well, it’s mid-afternoon here in my corner of Florida; currently, the temperature outside is 92 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. With a 4 MPH northwesterly wind (maximum gusts of 8 MPH) and humidity at 56%, the feels-like temperature in the open is 102˚F, while in the shade it’s…
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Adventures in Screenwriting: Mom Would Have Been Proud
Mom Would Have Been Proud Way back in the late Seventies – circa early in 1978 – I told my mom, “You know what? Someday I’m gonna write a movie. I wanna write one, anyway.” I had just seen Star Wars during one of the three times that I watched it over its long run…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, August 2, 2020: Storms and Other Pieces of My Mind
Hello, there! Well, here we are on Sunday, August 2, 2020; it’s late morning in my little corner of Florida as I start this post – I’m not the world’s best or fastest typist, so it will be past noon when I finally post this – and, as usual for the Sunshine State in summer,…
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Musings & Thoughts for August 1, 2020: Keeping a Weather Eye on Isaias…and Other Stray Thoughts
Well, it’s late afternoon here in my quiet corner of Florida; it’s still sunny outside, and even though the temperature is lower than it was when I chimed in this morning, it’s still hot and muggy outside. Presently, the temperature is 83˚F (28˚C), although with humidity at 74% and northeasterly winds blowing at 14 MPH,…
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Musings & Thoughts, July 30, 2020: Keeping a Weather Eye on Isaias
Hello, there, Constant Reader. It’s mid-morning in my corner of Florida on this penultimate day of July 2020 (a month and year, even, that I would love to see in my rearview mirror, and soon). Right now, the temperature outside the house is 76˚F (24˚C) under mostly sunny skies; with humidity at 95% and an…
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Thoughts & Musings for July 29, 2020
Bits and Pieces of My Mind Well, here we are on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. It is mid-morning here in my corner of Florida, though by the time you read this it will be close to noon. Right now the temperature outside is 78˚F under cloudy skies; the little daylight streaming through my window is…
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Odds & Ends for July 27, 2020
Odds & Ends for July 27, 2020 Hi, there. As I write this, it’s early afternoon here in my corner of Florida, and boy, it is hot outside. According to my phone’s AccuWeather app, the current temperature is 89˚F under mostly sunny skies. With humidity at 66% and a southwesterly breeze of 4 MPH (with…
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Odds & Ends for July 24, 2020
Odds and Ends: July 24, 2020 Hi, there, Constant Reader. I hope you are safe, healthy, and practicing safe social distancing on this penultimate Friday of July 2020. As I sit down to write this in my little corner of Florida, it’s almost 2 PM Eastern (not that it matters, since I can’t publish this…
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