16 Feb
So many slides. Over and over. Hours and hours. That’s the story of my week. Couple of big briefings for folks in the rarified air of senior management, plus a handful of training sessions on how to use simple SharePoint libraries delivered to uncooperative audiences, along with all the preparation and editing and run-throughs and […]
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09 Feb
A week. It happened. The biggest news was the work thing where a couple policy changes and some questionable judgement (at least in the sense of making a decision without all the necessary information) has left a few of the projects I’m working in doubt in terms of funding. To be entirely fair, the underlying […]
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19 Jan
I was only in the office for three days this week, after wrapping a kick-ass first year of ConVivial, where I had a whole bunch of shows, panels, quality time with friends, pleasant conversations, and maybe one or two too many drinks, though all that other stuff got me more than my share of steps […]
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10 Jan
It’s been a week, and it’s only Wednesday morning. I’m done. The winter storm covering most of the country east of the Mississippi has mostly dumped a bunch of rain on the RVA parade; somewhere between two and three inches if I’m reading the charts right. It was enough, when combined with the winds the […]
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18 Dec
Today I started my final work week for the year 2023. Three more days, and another work year is in the books. Honestly, I haven’t spent a lot of time reflecting, because I’ve been too damned busy tying things up before I take off for a week or so. …And of course today (actually over […]
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27 Oct
Overall, this has been a pretty crappy week. Sunday morning I was chopping vegetables into the crock pot for vegetable soup and tagged the tip of my left ring finger with a just-swharpened knife. Ouch. Also, having the bandage there has wseriously impeded productivity; it keeps getting in the way of the typing by which […]
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29 Sep
Bureaucratic Talking Shutdown Blues (2020) by Chuck Parker Damn, I’m getting a lot of mileage out of this tune, though I suppose I need to update it with some new lyrics, maybe about how this whole thing really stems from that one time that Kevin McCarthy cock-blocked Matt Gaetz… In any case, I’ve spent the […]
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07 Aug
♫ Bicycle Man, Bicycle Man Bicycle Man meets Pine Cone Man They Have a Fight, Pine Cone wins Road Rash Man ♫ …but at least I finished the Capital Trail Summer Challenge Virtual Birthday Challenge…413.6 miles down, the last four bleeding.
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07 Jul
So it’s been a quiet a couple of weeks in terms of posting missives here that no one reads anyway. It happens. I’ve honestly been mostly working too much and neglecting much of the rest of life, at least until I got to the end of June and it’s big work product deadlines, then I […]
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20 Jun
Been a bit of an overwhelming week and change. LONG work days involving going into an actual office for several days in the interest of meeting deadlines and doing our part to quash the “drinking from the fire hose” mentality my workplace just can’t seem to let go of. Lots of personal stuff to do […]
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