Iris walks a dark pathbetween bravadoand flight of fearstepping softlybetween the grenadesshe thinksare being lobbedinto her pathfrom behindher left shoulderalways lookingout from beneatha stray lockdraped overher sad smileas she walks. Iris lives silentlya song in her headunspoken lyricsand a rhythmonly she hearsechoing in the corridorsof brickand broken plasterthat line her
Author: Mark
Geekstuff
Getting Organized
I am a bit OCD about time. Even at work I have a coil book beside me at all times, jotting down from and to times along with my notes on what I am doing. And I did create MaVie as both a time tracker and journal app. But I
Poetry
A Thousand Diamonds
A thousand diamonds glitteron obsidian Coco Chanelwould have been proud of,stretching ahead into the streamof mustard yellow streetlightflickering in the blastof Mother Nature’s breathyelling silently “Enjoy the raintomorrow it will be iceand snow!”,coating the worldin ivory marshmallowuntil the shoots of Springwrestle a footholdbetween the cracksof the sidewalkwhere I walk. ml’25
Recycling
The SamBag
Okay this one comes with a story. I am not a pack-rat, more a crow. I don’t save things just to save them, with a mountain of odds and ends in my shop downstairs. Well, actually I do but that is another story, and not a hoarding story! Anyway, many
Lists
Bucket List November 2025
Funny, as you get older the bucket list changes and gets shorter… Mine is still way long, like a knitter’s stash it is doubtful I will ever get to the end. But my list is definitely changing. Here’s the latest iteration (in no particular order): So there is the latest
Geekstuff Life
Pro-Linux & Anti-Virus!
Ahh the joys of WinBlows11 – doing everything the Microsoft way (and sharing to the world whether you like it or not!). For a while this year I was devving new apps on Win11, mostly because it was easy to compile small, neat, portable exes with Nuitka, and my primary