A Cute Little Bookstore in Agricola Street Books

I had a chance to visit a cute and cozy little used bookstore called Agricola Street Books. I was there during their book buy-back weekend, and while I waited for them to value my book for store credit, I made a quick walk around video, being very TikTok mind-oriented these days. When they were done, I basically had enough for the one thing I saw in the store I wanted, and made an impulse buy, something I rarely ever do. But for things Van Gogh, it’s easy to Tan Gogh and buy!

I edited it later, narrating it and putting the appropriately named Literature voice effect (voiceover) on it. It’s a female voice, but you see how effective and nice these voice effects are to keep a clean and even sound. And maybe you can understand why I prefer to use them rather than my own voice.

Charming little bookstore, don’t you think?

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Blog Audience Time Used or Wasted

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Over the years, I have occasionally wondered, how much time I have taken up in people’s lives with them looking through my blog content, and if that time had been well used or wasted? Or more likely, what amounts or proportion of time I have taken up of each as I’m sure there’d be lots of people who would tell me they got something they deemed worth their time on my blog, and also lots of people who would also tell me they regretted wasting the most valuable asset they had in life, which is time, on my blog.

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Knowledge is Power Only If It Were Used

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/It’s generally accepted that knowledge is power. But is it, really? What if you knew something, but did nothing with it? Did you wield any more power than someone who did nothing because they didn’t know what you knew? What good was your power if you didn’t do anything with it? What good would superheroes be if they did nothing with their superpowers?

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My Thousand Mile adidas adizero Bostons

Below is a video showing my newly retired adidas adizero Boston running shoes, after 1000.5 miles of service.

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