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Doctor's Notes News, Updates and Random Open Tabs What's Up, Doc? Welcome to my favorite time of the year. Despite the Super El Niño trying it's damndest to make everything unseasonable, fall is finally here with it's cooler days, long cozy nights, a hint of crispness in the wind and the festive spookiness of Halloween. It's actually nice to be able to enjoy some coffee out on the porch in the crepuscular hours, watching the sun slowly break over the horizon and listen to the city wake up......

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Doctor's Notes News, Updates and Random Open Tabs It's been a quiet couple of weeks at NerdLove Industries, without much in the way of news to report. So let's leap straight into it: For The Love Of God, Your Date Isn't "Testing" You As part of my overall gig as a dating coach and advice columnist, I read a number of subreddits about dating and relationships as a way of seeing what’s in the zeitgeist and what issues come up regularly and how people respond to those issues. This habit may be...

Doctor's Notes News, Updates and Random Open Tabs Hi, guys, gals and non-binary pals, I'm back again because I tend to have too many words in my brain and they need to go somewhere. One of the problems with having ADHD as a writer in general – and as a me specifically – is trying to actually move a metaphorical iron in the fire to actually doing something with it instead of just letting it sit in the fire until the metal's been burnt and it's basically useless.(Occasionally it's not even a...

Doctor's Notes News, Updates and Random Open Tabs Normally I'd open with some form of "what's going on, NerdLovers?", but we've just lived through what seems like it was going to be the opening bars of WWIII but ended up being yet another round of TACO Tuesday. Weirdly, being Gen X helps; I grew up in the shadow of nuclear armageddon for the first 20 years of my life so I'm kinda used to it at this point. Which is something of a horrifying thing to say, but hey, gotta embrace whatever...

Hello, NerdLovers!Welcome to the first Doctor's Notes newsletter. I'm still working on just how this is going to work – whether this is going to be semi-regular essays and writings a la a Substack, just news blasts to keep people up to date on the latest from Dr. NerdLove, a straight RSS feed or what. So, there are likely going to be a few different types of emails on a semi-irregular basis as I hammer away at this and see what lies underneath. But hey, at the very least, this is going to be...