Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr

Dementia and parkinson's disease, ADHD, composition for head disease theme

Day 7 of the Vegetarian Experiment: ADHD and the Wrap Up

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 …

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Vegetarian burger with bean patty

Day 4 of the Vegetarian Experiment: Eating Out

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 …

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Strong man lifting weight at gym

Day 5 of the Vegetarian Experiment: The Health Claims

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 …

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Vegan protein source top view.

Days 6 of the Vegetarian Experiment: Vegetarian Protein

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 – …

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Vegetables and bean closeup, wooden background

Day 3 of the Vegetarian Experiment: A Vegetarian Diet Observation

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 …

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Two meatless burgers as part of the vegetarian experiment

Day 2 Of The Vegetarian Experiment: Why Do It?

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 …

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Day 1 of the Vegetarian Experiment

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 …

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Blog word and newspapers

Finding Extra Time, and The Return

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 …

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Fresh pea sprouts

Korean Sprouts (Kongnamool) For Korean BBQ

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 …

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Asian rice noodles

Chinese Noodle Salad

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 …

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Salad with Chinese cabbage and carrot

Thai Peanut Salad Dressing

A super-simple thai peanut salad dressing, can also be used as a dip. 1/2 cup peanut butter 2 tablespoons fresh lime or lemon juice 2 tablespoons rice vinegar 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 tablespoon honey 1 teaspoon sesame oil 1 clove garlic roughly chopped 1 cup of water (Optional) 1/2 teaspoon of dry chicken bullion …

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Homemade Cut Up Cornbread

Dead Simple Cast-Iron Cornbread

1 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup yellow cornmeal ½ cup white sugar 1 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 egg 1 cup milk 1/3 cup vegetable oil Preheat the over to 400 – put a medium cast-iron pan in while it’s preheating. Put everything into a bowl, and mix it well. Once the oven’s …

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Captions at the Drive-In!

An Easy Way to Have Captions at Drive-In Theaters That Works Well! (UPDATED 2023)

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 …

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How To Bypass Tumblr’s Dumb Content Policy

I’ll skip all the colorful story stuff and get right to the meat of this – there’s two very easy ways to bypass Tumblr’s adult content policy for some pages and discussions. This won’t work for everything, but a quick test of it showed it works fine for the web comic I was trying to …

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Looking Back at 2018, and Looking Forward at 2019

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, …

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20 Years of Midnight Ryder Technologies

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.  …

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27 Mk 20 (aka 47 years old) And Counting

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 …

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The End of Selfie a Day, Two New Personal Projects, Quick 2017 Recap, 2018 Plans Already Start 6

The End of Selfie a Day, Two New Personal Projects, Quick 2017 Recap, 2018 Plans Already Start

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 …

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Tai chi (Taijiquan), Swords, and Old Men

If you read only one rambling blog post with no discernible point behind it today, you might want to pick a different blog post.  But, since you’re already here, you might as well keep reading… Last week I decided it was time to refresh my Tai Chi (Taiji, Taijiquan, however you’d like to refer to …

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Doing a little Colorado Marijuana Tourism 8

Doing a little Colorado Marijuana Tourism

When in Rome, right?  People who know me know I’m not a pot head – it’s just never been my thing.  But, since I was going to be in Colorado, I had multiple reasons why I wanted to do a little marijuana tourism.  At the same time I’m writing this, I’ve already written an article …

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Selfie a Day #21: Women's March in Wichita

Women’s March in Wichita, and Protest Anxiety

Becoming more active in the community, and the world as a whole, has been a goal of mine for a while.  I’ve not been as good at it as I should be.  Facebook activism doesn’t count, and even that is sometime I carefully dole out (someday I’ll bother writing a blog post on the company …

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Phantasm: Ravager

Phantasm: RaVager

Wow.  So, I’ve now seen the end of the Phantasm series.  37 years wrapped up in 5 somewhat low-budget movies.  How does the last one stand up to the first one?  Well, I recently got an awesome look back at the first one. Phantasm I Phantasm is strange.  Even the original trailer is pretty strange, …

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Selfie made of Selfies

What’s Wrong With Selfies?

Kodachrome They give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day — Paul Simon, Kodachrome This is a world of “if I don’t do it, it must be stupid.”  Seriously, Pokemon GO! is an example of this thinking – somehow, “adults who …

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ICT ComicCon during setup on Friday

Back to our regularly scheduled blogging…

SO.  I had planned on getting back to regular blogging, just as I was moving.  Then, I went a week without regular Internet access.  Oops.  Since I was on a rush to get a couple things up and rolling, I decided I would hold off on getting back to it until after ICT ComicCon and …

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The Tool Cleaning Phase

An Odd Lesson Learned From The Great Culling and Sorting

“Don’t wanna live as an untold story Rather go out in a blaze of glory I can’t hear you, I don’t fear you” — The Struts, Could Have Been Me With a new place came the chance to reorganize a whole lotta my stuff, and my life.  Obviously, reorganizing stuff is considerably easier than reorganizing …

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Where the Magic Will Happen (the New Place)

One dream, one soul, one prize One goal, one golden glance of what should be It’s a kind of magic — Queen, It’s a Kind of Magic In many ways, the move had brought about a new way of life for me. Well, Not brand new, just one I haven’t experienced in quite a while. …

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