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What’s A Little Chaos On A Saturday Morning

January 17, 2022 by Jack Steiner Leave a Comment

Eventually the Shmata Queen will get back around to read this and I can tell her the 198 texts she sent me while writing this are why it is relatively short.

Not really complaining because the conversation and information is important.

We’re exchanging thoughts, ideas and information about the hostage crisis here which we both experienced though in slightly different ways.

Neither of us were physically there but we were on the livestream and had it not been for Covid there is no guarantee that we could have been or not been there when the terrorist showed up.

It is disconcerting and infuriating that this happened yet again and that we expect there to be another incident.

Certainly we hope that is not the case, but prudence and experience dictates that preparations need to be made for ourselves and the institutions we support, believe in and attend.

Put Anger Aside

I told the kids to remember in a crisis situation we need to put anger aside and be smart. We need to do our best to be logical, rational and deliberate in our actions.

Let emotion drive you during such things and bad stuff can happen. I also told them not to expect to be automatons or that I expect them to be such.

Irks me to no end, but I operate in reality as the world is and push to build the world we want to live in while recognizing the one we are actually in.

Be angry after. Use it to motivate you to take necessary actions, but prepare and try eliminate, reduce and avoid the problems up front as best you can.

It is a sad statement, but important.

Filed Under: Children, Life, Terrorism

Coding Issues-A Plague Of Blogging

January 2, 2022 by Jack Steiner 4 Comments

Been wrestling with coding issues on a variety of posts, most recently on one that received some nice comments.

Thing is, if you look at the link I put up you won’t see any of the comments. It was imported from an old blog of mine on Blogger and there are comments there that you won’t see here.

Actually that’s because I ran the post a second time here, so if you dug through the archives you would find it when it was originally posted 11 years ago and not the link I used to the 10-year edition.

That one had nice comments too, but they aren’t rendering now either and I am not sure why.

One of these days I have to figure that out because the comments sometimes provide context that is lost without them.

The thing is there are so many different issues here I haven’t got the time to deal with all at once so I take it on piecemeal and go from there.

That is the glory and shame of blogging for 18 years. There is an enormous amount of content and the detritus of theme changes, plugins and what have you.

Sometimes I think about ditching it all, but I always come back to the same places with that. There is some junk here, but there is also gold that I would miss.

Filed Under: Blogging

A Placeholder For A Writer

December 7, 2021 by Jack Steiner Leave a Comment

Consider this a personal note to come back and work on this piece, there is potential.

That is how this writing gig goes, you produce content, work, rework and do it all again. If you somehow catch fire you run like hell and hope it keeps up and continues.

So that is what this is about catching fire and rolling on through the deep.

So much good material and so much not so good, but so it goes. Keep plugging away and and find the magic.

If you are new here and looking through the archives keep digging. You have 18 years or so of material and some of it is pretty good, some less so.

But there are some gold nuggets. Keep digging.

Filed Under: Writing

Jack The Audioblogger

November 27, 2021 by Jack Steiner Leave a Comment

I just stumbled onto one of my old Audioblogging accounts. I had forgotten about it.

Spent a few minutes checking out a few of them and smiled, reminded me how I got into that nonsense before everyone and their mother had a podcast.

Yeah, some of it is unpolished and primitive, but it was kind of fun. It was a novel experience at that time and I probably could have turned into something bigger had I thought about it.

Had I a little vision maybe it would have been huge or maybe I would have bored the hell out of people. Don’t know and am not going to worry about it.

Sometimes I forget just how long I have been messing around with this stuff. Hell, there is stuff from around 2004, though I am not sure it is still accessible.

But it would be fun, got a few where The Shmata Queen performed with me.

Filed Under: Audio Blogging

The S.Q.’s Walkabout

November 18, 2021 by Jack Steiner Leave a Comment

It appears the lovely S.Q. has been on a walkabout for a while now and I haven’t decided if I wish to call, email, text or send a telegram.

Thought about it a bunch and have done some of those things in the past but I am waiting for something, not sure what.

Maybe a sign that clarifies circumstances, situations, possibilities and opportunities or maybe something else.

They say what is meant for you won’t go past you and I expect to learn the truth of that pretty darn soon.

Filed Under: Life

It Don’t Come Easy

November 13, 2021 by Jack Steiner Leave a Comment

It is never easy watching your kids go through challenging times where you know they have to figure it out themselves.

You can offer support, guidance and someone to speak with but you can’t take on the monsters for them or they’ll never figure out how to slay dragons on their own.

Got one of those situations going on now, but I hadn’t realized how far it had advanced until we had a certain conversation today.

Made for some heartache and pain but also some pride in seeing how much they have grown and how mature their response is.

Afterwards, I was asked what I want to do and I said I could go kick the asses of those responsible for this and I could.

But that would require ignoring my own advice and gut. Can’t slay the dragon for them.

So now I have to sit, watch and wait.

Dammit.

Filed Under: Children

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