Midnight Writer

...the road goes on forever

Format Change

If you’ve been on the site before, you probably noticed that I’ve pretty radically changed the layout.

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A Red Letter Day for Me

January 22nd was a red letter day for me. I’m actually writing this on January 28th, which is even a bit more exciting, but I’ll explain that in a bit. So what’s so special about January 22nd? It’s the first time I’ve made money from writing on this website (or any other website, for that matter).

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Meaty Instant Pot Lasagna

Lasagna has long been one of my favorite meals. I always picture myself as a human version of Garfield the cat when we have it for a meal. Sometimes there are leftovers, but they seldom make it through the night, and never through the next day.

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My Computer Beginnings

To a lot of people, Atari means games. Old-school games. But for a little over a decade, from 1979 to 1993, they were a respected

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“Never Leftover” Deviled Eggs

I learned a nice little trick for deviled eggs this past week. I always joke around that there are never leftover deviled eggs at family events, church gatherings, etc.. As a social experiment, I frequently volunteer to make them, and then go “overboard” to see if we can make enough so that there are actually leftovers. My prior record was 4 dozen at a family event. That’s 96 halves. They were all gone.

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Santa and Me

It seemed innocent enough. My cousin Trish Hudson had been talking about having my wife and I, along with my sisters over for a meal sometime. My sister’s birthday had just passed a couple of days earlier, and I got one of those notifications in Facebook that said “Trish Hudson mentioned you in a post”. I clicked the link, glanced at it quickly, and totally misunderstood.

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Amazon Echo Silver

Making Technology Fun Looking at the title, this probably looks like a gadget article, but it’s really not. It’s more about technology and humor, with

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IP and the Art of Cooking

First of all, my apologies to any of you that stumbled on to this by mistake. Even though I work (and have lots of friends) in the Information Technology field, “IP” in this case is not “Internet Protocol”, but “Instant Pot”. Sorry, this is a cooking story.

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My name is Herb Parsons, your semi-average 66-year-old guy. I’ve been married to my wife Gini for 28 years, and between us, we have 5 children and 11 grandchildren (currently).