It’s a Monday on the road, and as is my custom, I ventured out to the local Trader Joe’s for my bag of organic apples and bread-product-to-be-determined-by-price-and-impulse (since I head off to work before this hotel usually puts out it’s breakfast spread), and finally succumbed to temptation and bought a bottle of the infamous Two […]

While I love the convenience and crowd-avoidance benefits of shopping online, I am somewhat annoyed with certain vendors’ shipping practices. Not necessarily the shipping times; all the stuff I’ve ordered in the last month or so has arrived quickly, often more quickly than the promised delivery date. No, what annoys me is the fact that […]

Today’s shuffle derives from the act of delving into old hard drives recovered from the now deceased old Pentium 4 laptop, thanks to a couple of external IDE drive enclosures I can access via USB cables, since my new desktop machine only supports SATA drives. New technology that allows me to prolong the life of […]

Walking in to the office today, I noticed that the flag was flying at half-staff, and I couldn’t come up with a reason why right away. I immediately started running through the names of the living presidents and which of them might be on death’s door, though there was nothing mentioned on the news this […]

<intentionaljoketag>generic blurb about how I have nothing to report</intentionaljoketag> Anyone who’s watching the mileage tick up on the left side of this web page has probably figured out that my five-to-six days a week workout has become habit, and if I don’t get it, I just don’t feel entirely right, mostly because I’m getting to […]

A tiny piece of fiction inspired by a brief real-life feeling and all the David Sedaris I’ve been reading lately: ___________________ Although the rational, date-keeping part of my brain must have known, the rest of me had almost totally managed to not realize what time of year it was. It’s not hard to do when […]

snow. Woke up to find this outside this morning. It’ll be gone in an hour…here just long enough to rile up the kids.

(yep, real lyric) Why didn’t I realize that what this song really needed was accordions and clarinets? You’d think Weird Al would have had it before this guy, but then, this guy made Talyor Swift much more interesting as well, even if she still looks like a gelfling: A totally METAL gelfling: m/

I expect a lot of people get weary of my regular crowing about how much I like the webcomic xkcd, but I keep on doing it because it speaks to me, and when a piece of art or music or whatever does that, I like to share it. I always check it out m/w/f first […]