I think I might be able to honestly report a reasonably okay long weekend? I didn’t really do anything out of the ordinary, but nonetheless it was a break from the hassle of work. I cooked some decent meals, got a little biking in before the rain, maybe booked a future gig at a local […]

The week’s ending slightly better than it started, I guess; “nothing particularly significant” is better than “total emotional breakdown,” if we’re keeping score. The low point was Tuesday afternoon. I got through the work day well enough, apart from the usual bullshit regarding the ever-shifting office policy and SharePoint gatekeeping. After shutting down for the […]

While I was logging my trail miles over to your left last night, my wordpress install pointed out to me that since I started using the platform to run this ‘blog back in 2007, I’d written 1,999 posts. My first thought for the 2k milestone was some kind of retrospective something, but honestly the world […]

Those reading this space and what things I say in other spaces lately are no doubt aware that I’e been struggling. I’m not sure what it is, really. I suspect it’s a shifting mix of cabin fever, depression, anxiety, boredom, mourning, anger, existential dread, fear for the future, stress, ennui, a well-timed mid-life crisis, frustration, […]

I don’t really wanna talk about the weekend. Suffice to say it was extra stressful, not particularly restful, and ended Monday morning with wonderful news about middle-of-the-night policy changes at the office that mean I need to take some proposal packages I’ve been working on for the last month or two back to the drawing […]

It is indeed Friday when this gets posted (if not when it gets composed). This week, clearly, has not been good. Lots of crap, everywhere, shoveled heavily over my existence. To put it plainly, it sucked; there was very little worth feeling good about, all told. But, this is the world we live in now. […]

This morning’s title, plus a maybe a few choice obscenities, were some of my first words yesterday morning when the shower definitively confirmed the suspicion underlying much of the previous week: The hot water heater died. Yes, “hot water heater” is rather redundant, but that’s what said device is indeed called on all the websites […]