Thanksgiving weekend was meh; honestly. Given the state of the world, it was just a couple of days off, frankly. We had a decent meal on Thursday; mostly vegetarian stuff (a killer lentil and rice loaf, and some spinach and cheese bread pudding that the family really loved). I didn’t do turkey, but did do […]

If you’re looking for some Thanksgiving Eve enterainment this year, might I humbly suggest you tune in to my friend Madison “Metricula” Roberts’ weekly streaming music show on Wednesday night? Each week, she plays “6 songs at 6pm from 6 categories”: One song hot off the press by me, one song by a friend, one […]

In plowing through the initial pile of work emails this morning, amongst the wheat (useful test results and signed documents – 20%) and chaff (random garbage, pointless cc:’s, etc – 80%) was a copy of a job announcement to fill the recently-vacated Deputy CxO in my organization. This isn’t particularly abnormal; when something like this […]

Indeed, a week. As briefly teased in earlier dispatches, I’ve spent a large part of the week dealing with petty bureaucrats and their petty power-trips. It has, for the large part, sucked, though after working with some dare-i-say “allies” within the organization, I unleashed a little bit of bureaucratic jujitsu of my own, and have […]

…which is shameful. If you won’t listen to science or the case for public welfare, maybe you’ll listen to Baby Yoda: Although, in the end, while it may be Dolly who saves us, it’s going to be a while. And as winter comes, holidays happen, and people get even more lax about taking precautions than […]

I’m not particularly superstitious, but maybe don’t go camping on Friday the 13th. My mind-clearing getaway trip didn’t quite offer the solace I hoped it would, due to numerous complications. Not saying it was all bad, but all told, very few things went according to plan or as I’d have liked. The first piece, of […]

It’s going to be a little quiet around these parts for a few days. As I’d mentioned a couple of weeks back, I’m going on a bit of an adventure. I’m going just a little bit mad under the current conditions, and really need a change of scenery, and I’ve found a way to do […]

So, indeed, as the evidence has suggested over the previous days, Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States. This is, in my opinion, and the opinions of many other people, very good news. President Biden and VP Kamala Harris will be, at the very least, stable, straightforward, literate, and empathetic […]

Like I said yesterday, we’re going to be waiting a little bit for this one, but from where I’m sitting, things looks to be breaking our way. All it’s going to take is time. It’s the same way we get through any week, really, and this week’s been a long one for other reasons as […]

So, based on the latest headlines, it looks like we’re going to ultimately get good news on this one. Biden needs one more state, *any* state left, to put him over the Electoral College finish line; 45 needs them all. Nevada looks really good at this point (and will likely be the next declared state […]