by Tom Stortz | Jan 15, 2025 | General |
I finished Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky’s book The Idiot (1869). This is regarded as his 3rd best book behind Crime and Punishment and the Brothers Karamazov. Why I decided to tackle this one instead of the others? Perhaps it suits me more. The book is about...
by Sam Stortz | Jan 13, 2025 | General |
Meg and I were watching Love is Blind: Germany and one of the couples were having an argument that went like this: Girl – “We don’t communicate. You never talk to me!” Guy – “What, you want me to like, ask you about your day or...
by Tom Stortz | Jan 10, 2025 | General |
It’s easy to type this post as a conservative from the east coast. Simple to point out that prior (poor) decisions by left wing extremists led to this catastrophe. I hate to even call California that, but these fires have pointed out so much mismanagement that...
by Tom Stortz | Jan 7, 2025 | General |
This style of post received 2 comments last time which puts it in high regard. Pick an exact topic and say what you like or don’t like about it. Today I’ll do the Sirius channel John Mayer’s – Life Do I Like John Mayer? Ed McGrath played a song...
by Tom Stortz | Jan 5, 2025 | General |
I watched the Netflix doc on Avicii and walked away with perspective on what happens when you go from 0 to 1000 at warp speed…you die. It’s tragic how a kid from Stockholm turns into one of the biggest draws on the planet, burns out, finds himself...
by Tom Stortz | Jan 4, 2025 | General |
Nick Nick’s 74. He’s been my barber for as long as I can remember. I don’t personally wait for him, as I don’t want to sleight the other barbers, but he is undoubtedly my favorite. He’s a conservative business owner like myself and we...
by Tom Stortz | Jan 4, 2025 | General |
2023 Post | 2022 Post | 2021 Post | 2020 Post | 2019 Post This will be the 6th year of my financial / life tracking. To do this requires, much like the upkeep of this blog for 16+ years, discipline. There is little reward for maintaining these data sets aside from...
by Sam Stortz | Jan 2, 2025 | General |
At the ripe age of 33, I will be having yet another oral surgery. My first was in 2001, my last was around 2011. Between those years I had seven surgeries pulling 27 teeth total. In 2025, I will be having what is hopefully my FINAL oral surgery where I’m...
by Tom Stortz | Dec 24, 2024 | General |
I go to Istock where I have 256 pictures remaining in the subscription Stortz Tools has been paying for 10 years and pick a Christmas image to go along with the post. I’ve already done the gym because without work, how is there not time? I’ll clean up the...
by Sam Stortz | Dec 22, 2024 | General |
I’m a bookworm. Always have been, always will be. Exactly three months ago I told a friend, who doesn’t read this blog, that I needed a new book to read. He replied: 11/22/63, it’s Stephen King, but it’s not horror. A guy travels back in time...
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