The Occasional Stevie

The goings on chez the Steviemanse. The indignities suffered by Stevie. The blight on humanity that is the Long Island Rail Road, with special reference to that part of humanity named "Stevie".

Spelling will vary throughout between standard English, American English, and the personal Stevie dialect of Manglish. Live with it.

Everything © Stevie.

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Catching Up.

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So the Stevieling got married last year. I turned 65 today. That's about it.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Why Wikipedia Is Not An "Encyclopedia for the Masses"

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Imagine a young student, maybe 14 or so, needing to know what Angular Momentum is, having come across the term for the first time. Our stude...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

A Year Has Gone By

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And I still find myself thinking about what I'm going to talk about with him today, and hoping he'll be having a "good" ...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

The New Steviemobile

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I sulked for a week or so after the insurance company handed me a check for the defunct-over-a-piddling-issue Steviemobile, then Mrs Stevie ...
Monday, November 19, 2018

The Inexplicable Death Of An Automobile

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So this is the tale of what happened after I sought "expert" help because the Steviemobile's Check Engine light was on. The S...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Why Me?

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Monday, Veterans Day (Obs), John the Plumber Guy turned out to fix my furnace, as he does about two years in every three. Mrs Stevie had act...
Friday, August 17, 2018

And Then This Happened

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My mother passed away early this morning in a Hospital in northern Alberta, where the rest of my immediate family has put down roots. She ha...
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Monday, August 06, 2018

Homeward Bound

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Saturday was time to go back to New York. We packed the car and as we were doing so The Kids arrived early for once, so we had a nice breakf...
Friday, August 03, 2018

A Day Off

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The kids arrived at the villa early and we started our Fun Day with breakfast in a Perkins. The Stevieling said they needed to pick up their...
Thursday, August 02, 2018

Wedding Planning

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Thursday dawned and brought with it the prospect of traveling around the immediate area looking at places to hold The Stevieling's upcom...
Wednesday, August 01, 2018

Lazing On A Wednesday Afternoon (In The Summertime)

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Wednesday dawned and we decided to take it easy, our bodies having been given a thorough going-over by our maritime exertions yesterday. Bre...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

A Better Day Dawns

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This day would prove to be infinitely better in every way than yesterday. Mrs Stevie decided that conditions would be perfect for a trip to ...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Space, The Unobtainable Experience

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We rose late on Monday and had breakfast, then Mrs Stevie suggested we use the day to visit NASA and have lunch with an astronaut. We've...
Sunday, July 29, 2018

Lazing On A Sunday

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We rose late and surveyed the lay of the land over coffee. The villa was much the same as the last time I was in it, about ten years ago. We...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

The Journey Continues

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We rose early and got rolling for the final stretch, which was mostly traffic-nice, all to the tale of Terry Pratchett's Maskerade . I h...
Friday, July 27, 2018

The Journey Begins, Eventually

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My morning ablutions were accompanied by the occasional hiss of the upstairs toilet refilling. So the valve replacement had worked about as ...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

The Kind-Of Inevitable Post Smiting Smitage

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After a day of Bloody Long Island Railroad suckage and work suckage I returned home and dug out the stuff I'd bought at Blowes from on...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

The Smiting Continues

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So we are due to set out for Florida in the MrsSteviemobile on Friday. Yesterday the Steviemobile's check engine light started glowing b...

The Suckage Goes Ever On And On

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So I went round to Costco to get my glasses fixed, prior to doing all the things Mrs Stevie had added to the last-minute task list before we...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

Good Grief, Is It That Time Again?

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Seem like only a year since I went though this the last time. Still, it's a good excuse for brunch I suppose. The omeletes were very goo...
Friday, July 20, 2018

And It Was Going So Well Too

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I just received an email from The Bloody Long Island Railroad: Due to a ticket stock issue, there are some changes to your August monthly t...
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