Rob Hodgins
Author's posts
Sep 04
Of Booking Calendars and Other (Re)Start Up Issues.
It has been a hectic few weeks over here at Rob Hodgins Calm. And it has been fulfilling. Former clients and new friends had been asking if I’d ever get back into massage. At first my response was a firm “No”. I have always made it a policy to never reopen a door once I …
Aug 26
The Type 1 Diabetic Balancing Act
It’s been 9 months since my diagnosis. I have been keeping a daily journal of my blood sugar results (umpteen readings per day). I have been recording the foods I have eaten (and the amounts) at what time of day I ate. I have kept an eye on the weather and its impact on my …
Aug 15
A New Start
As all good things must come to a start. There isn’t any one date things changed. Just a series of micro-changes over time that led to a life that is totally different than what it was. Some of the changes include diet. I’m now nearly a complete vegetarian. I don’t have any spiritual reason for …
Apr 25
In the flow.
It’s kinda crazy how it happens: EVERYTHING seems to be working against you. Seems that’s the only thing you can count on “This project/this endeavour/this attempt/this breath will get mucked up.” You come to expect it. And then… And then… You’re in the clear and flying high as stuff starts flowing your way. THAT is …
Mar 25
Facebook Marketplace and other sites: First thoughts.
We accumulate stuff. We buy it or find it or inherit it…. And then we hold on to it for whatever reason. In my case, I held on to stuff because I thought my kids might want/need it “down the road”. As in when they got places of their own. Well, we ARE down the …
Mar 21
Home
Well, I’m “home”. Ubuntu was making me nuts. Its drive to make things easy was getting in my way. I didn’t feel in control of what it was doing “under the hood”. And that was quite annoying to me. I shifted back to Debian. This fits with a number of other events going on in …
Mar 13
Debian and the 2014 Macbook Air
My trusty 2014 Macbook Air got the its “walking papers” from Apple a while back. There would be no further operating system updates that would work on this machine. That struck me as being a pity because the hardware was great! Debian 11 had been out for a while and I naturally wante WPForms d …
Mar 07
Ubuntu 22.04 – First Impressions
Not great. I know I’m coming late to the Ubuntu love-fest. For the most part, coming late was because of being busy. But there was always a hope that any bugs in 22.04 would be resolved after nearly a year. They aren’t. I chose Ubuntu over Debian because I expected a more polished product that …
Feb 27
Someday…
Someday, I hope you understand the panic that was in me. Someday, I hope you can empathize with the horror. To make contact with authorities and experts hoping for assistance… only to discover they held an agenda of their own. To make contact with authorities and experts hoping for assistance… only to discover they were …
Feb 16
The Virus
I call it a virus. Whatever you call it, your mood spreads to the people around you. You hear expressions like, “Her entry brightened up the entire room”. How did that happen? We pick up “something” from the people (or things) around us. And we react to it. We may not be aware that we’re …