Archive for October, 2021

friday random elevenish: “cold calls” edition

29 Oct

My job, for better or worse, involves a lot of virtual meetings, either by phone or through collaboration apps on the computer. This isn’t a new pandemic phenomenon; my co-workers are spread all over the country, so there was never a lot of face time (though the ‘rona forced an improvement in the tools we […]

down the musical rabbit hole

28 Oct

Yesterday afternoon was an absolutely gorgeous early-fall afternoon, so I took advantage of the warm, sunny weather and did a long, refreshing 26 mile bike ride on the VCT, as is my habit. About seven miles into the ride, as my mind wandered, I had the melody of this particular tune pop into my mental […]

eighteen month wall

26 Oct

I’m definitely in a rut. Struggling to keep the momentum going. Another six-month wall. Work. Bike. Dinner. Sleep. Repeat. I wish I could get excited about, well, anything. I read the headlines and wallow further; my tiny bit of optimism that the current chaos is going to be followed by progress (as is the pattern […]

a middle aged man feeling conflicted by the modern world

25 Oct

I have a love/hate relationship with connective technology. My phone, the internet, social media…all that stuff is, to a great extent, absolutely necessary to my job, my musical side projects, and my consumption of news. I enjoy keeping up with distant friends, streaming music and movies for enterainment, having access to infinite products and services […]

friday random elevenish: “overtaxing the entire cranial region” edition

22 Oct

Seems I’ve been pushing myself hard this week, even as I intended certain elements to be “low impact,” in the sense that I gave my muscles a bit of a break by leaving the bike in storage and instead spending some time hiking the local trails after work as my chosen fitness-slash-head-clearing activity. Being able […]

friday random elevenish – “failed state” edition

15 Oct

A week. The past seven days have certainly been one. Personally, I’ve been busy with work and bike; tons of meetings, extra work, flow charts, and spreadsheets for the former, more than a hundred (occasionally wet) saddle miles for the latter. One helping me shake the stresses of the other. Not much to speak of, […]

friday random elevenish: “exhausting drama” edition

08 Oct

In addition to all kinds of excessive drama I’m not really getting into except to say that it’s very tiring, the regular stuff I tend to deal with has been particularly mentally exhausting. I’ve got a ton of work projects in various states of done; waiting for input from others or for continuing resolutions to […]

momentarily satisfied

04 Oct

Gig played. Wrocked the heck out of Arlington. It was a damned good show, if I do say so myself. Nice dinner afterwards just chilling with my lovely spouse and our friends as well. The whole thing was so pleasant, I’m willing to mostly forget the absolutely crap traffic up and back. On Sunday, I […]

friday random elevenish: “legislative wizardry” edition

01 Oct

Up until around 8pm last night, I didn’t know whether I’d be working today or not. That’s really not a nice feeling. Congress did, however, manage to kick the can down the road at least a week or two, so I continue to sit conference calls, review test data, and work out how to make […]

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