Archive - a different sober

Queueing questions

Next time you ask a question, focus on what comes back, not on what you’re going to ask next.

21 hrs ago • Nick Speak

Harry Hoekstra. Gloves off. Climbing the ladder.

Oct 7 • Nick Speak

Closed Sundays and Mondays

Punctures and broken chains can wait, there’s John Updike to read, and a tall to breathe.

Oct 6 • Nick Speak

There’s nothing worst

Trust what’s there—Graham Gooch did.

Oct 5 • Nick Speak

They’d be a little bit right

A reader who doesn't get tired.

Oct 4 • Nick Speak

What could go right

The catastrophist in me knows what can go wrong. The entrepreneur ignores him.

Oct 3 • Nick Speak

Tell me something true

Netizen - Part Two

Oct 3 • Nick Speak

The good people of Mildura

Kindness compounds. It makes us, and the things around us, better.

Oct 2 • Nick Speak

Generation gapping

Age brings experience. It shouldn’t bring assumptions.

Oct 1 • Nick Speak

September 2026

Maybe one, sometimes two, never three!

The Back East Brewing Company, Bloomfield, Connecticut

Sep 30 • Nick Speak

Treat yourself like you do others

Happiness and sadness. Both, at the same time.

Sep 29 • Nick Speak

Be careful what you ask for

Not every day is a good one. Today is one of those.

Sep 28 • Nick Speak

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