Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr

In my previous post about content I laid out a fairly aggressive plan, which involved tossing content out on multiple platforms, in multiple media including two forms of daily video, a weekly meme thing, a weekly story thing, and a weekly blog post. How’s it going so far, you ask? The two daily videos ended […]

Uh, why is this weird guy calmly telling me #goodmorning? It’s a two part answer here. Well, three really, I suppose. The first part is ’cause an algorithm on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, or other social media site thought you needed to see it – or, a friend felt you needed a pick me up and

It’s been a while since I’ve had to move. I don’t mean moving in real life, I mean moving my server infrastructure. I’ve been using the same hosting company for a while now. And… something has gone wrong. They’ve had increasing downtime. They’ve also had issues with tech giving me bad answers (the last time

While the whole point of going to SEMA Show this year was to interact with customers or potential customers for Eagle Cut, SEMA has a LOT of cars in there ’cause it’s the worlds largest gathering of automotive products. Someone sells a service or product that can be used to modify the looks or performance

So, I feel I’ve reached a new level of cliche. I’m sitting in a coffee shop with my little Chromebook, writing and drinking a coffee that I hate (it’s no knock on Il Primo Cafe, it’s just that I hate coffee). I’m undecided on how I feel about this – I mean, years ago, I

Time for the final day, and the wrap up. But, let’s hit one last topic: my ADHD, and how it’s affected. ‘Cause that’s one of the really big things I struggle with in life. Basically, anything I do that changes diet or exercise routines affects my ADHD. That’s just a part of being ADHD. Which

So The Plumber called and said “Lunch?” So, I met them at Denny’s. Eating out while trying to maintain a vegetarian eating It wasn’t planned, but we had both picked the same day to start a trial run of vegetarianism. Going to Denny’s would be a cool experiment – how hard was it to go

Every diet or workout makes extraordinary health claims about what it can do for you. It’s all about the money – they either want your views, or they want you to buy a product (be it supplements or books, or maybe just a subscription to their channel.) That means I’m skeptical as hell of everyone’s

OK, so I’m used to “meat protein” – where does one get all that vegetarian protein? That, to me, seemed to be one of the more daunting things. I’m doing vegetarian, not vegan, so it’s a bit easier. But, wanting to put in muscle mass and lose fat (not necessarily at the same time –

So, here’s my first big observation about going on a vegetarian diet: faux meat is not really a substitute. It’s not that hard to go without meat at the moment – but, I’m only 3 days into it. There’s no ‘Cheeseburger In Paradise’ moment where I’m dreaming about meat. Part of that is probably ‘cause

Why the vegetarian experiment? Why would a 50 year old definitely meat eating country boy decide to try meat free? As is often the case with me, there’s more than one reason for trying it. BTW, this is the kind of boring entry, ’cause it’s day 2 and nothing particularly interesting has happened. So this

So The Plumber told me the other day I should take a look at The Game Changers on Netflix. The TL;DR version is: professional athletes that switched to vegetarian or vegan diets and had good success. Yeah, I’ve seen plenty of those sort of folk before – they’re usually things like cyclists or runners that

I know, this thing hasn’t been updated in ages, and finding the extra time to do it has been hard. Oddly, it still gets traffic despite being stale content. Heck, I’ve also dumped off some content from the site – it’s now private information. But, that’s a story for another day, this is about coming

The kongnamool is used is part of a meal involving multiple side dishes, some rice, and some pork belly, but it’s good on it’s own. 1 pound soybean sprouts 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1/8th cup sesame oil 2 tablespoons Korean red pepper powder 2 teaspoons garlic, minced 2 teaspoons sesame seeds 2 teaspoons rice wine

A really nice Chinese Noodle Salad Jay gave me – give plenty of prep time, though! The Salad It’s Self: 1 Can of Pin Mushrooms 1 Napa Cabbage 5 or 6 rehydrated black mushrooms 2 or 3 carrots Rice Vermicelli noodles The Sauce 2 tbsp of chopped garlic 3 tbsp oyster sauce 2 tbsp of

Movie theaters are required to have closed caption devices available for the deaf. Drive-in theaters aren’t. Important to know if you or a loved one is deaf. I have a workaround for that! There’s some reasonable logistical reasons for drive in theaters to not be required to have caption systems. Still sucks, though. Another thing

Going into 2018, I would have said this would be the year I finally get over the financial hump – I came into it in a relatively good position. The contract gig I was doing was going strong, though it was supposed to be coming to an end – the budget for it ran out,

I posted on Facebook about it, but I’ll repeat it here as an intro – I was on the phone with someone I’ve known since before I had my own company, and he’s been a customer of mine for basically as long as his company has existed.  Bill Wiley & Associates is 15 years old. 

Yeah, I’m 47 now.  Of course, I’m sitting behind a computer, working on a major project, and packing up my apartment.  And, of course, thinking about the last year or so.  As usual with me, it’s been an interesting ride.  So, grab a cup of tea, coffee, or other favorite beverage, and come along for

So, it’s the beginning of a new year, so it’s that time of year to say that I’ll be writing more in my blog.  Seriously. 😉 . As with previous years, time will tell if I actually do it – though, I actually did write a number of things that were never published in 2017