Apart from a few issues, the weekend was quite nice. Had a beautiful bike ride on Saturday morning, enjoying 32 miles in the sun, a new record for me, and good conditioning for the Cap2Cap in May. The girls at home had a busy day Saturday as well; the dance school performing company got themselves […]

So I guess it’s kinda spring now? We’re supposed to top 80° here in the RVA today, after two days of solid (but warm) rain. I’ll take it. Lions, lambs, all that crap, right? The week itself has been about standard, at least standard for weeks where I have to run the gauntlet of senior […]

It always hits me hard today, though I always get through it. That said, I’ll be taking some time to think and remember, because that’s what we do. I take the lessons to heart, both obvious and implicit. Also, he would have totally dug the source of this post’s title. Cheers, Dad. You deserve a […]

If you were waiting for the record to stream on Spotify before you listened to it, well….here it is, and you no longer have an excuse to avoid it. If you listen, I shall appreciate your fraction of a cent per track. Seriously though, people have been saying decent things about it, the mix is […]

As alluded to earlier this week, the weather’s been rather awful, and it’s been keeping me from my primary source of stress relief; getting outside and riding the bike. The severe weather warnings have been coming in most of the week for the mid-Atlantic/Southeast, talk of 40-60 mph winds and tennis ball hail, which, y’know, […]

I’m a little frustrated with the weather this week. Well, I’m frustrated with a bunch of things, really, especially at work, as I work to navigate a process that isn’t a process in the current “official” job, and deal with system partners who won’t listen to truths they don’t like in the “old” job that […]

As we make note of the fact that it’s been a year since we’ve officially been using the term “pandemic” to describe the overall condition of the world, we mourn the loss of over half a million of our fellows, lament the denied opportunities for social interaction and live artistic performance and exhibition, and just, […]

So, remember yesterday when I was talking about letting go of those arbitrary deadlines and milestones and such? After spending the last few hours of work on Monday explaining over and over to test partners how things work and consistently having them (seemingly) willfully misunderstand time and again, I realized I needed to work off […]

I was, on the whole, actually pretty happy with the weekend, even if I didn’t quite hit a couple of interesting milestones. As if I don’t have enough deadlines and due dates thanks to my career as a public sector bureaucrat, I find myself forever setting other arbitrary lines to cross in my non-work life […]

Warning: contains promotional content! It has been, as they say, another week. And, looking back, a hell of a year. This time last year, things were just starting to get weird as the first cases of COVID-19 started popping up around these parts, leading to, well…you know. With the vaccines starting to work their way […]