Archive for the 'bitching' Category

friday random (Pandora) ten twenty-one: “I don’t particularly ♥ my defeatist attitude” edition

25 Jan

Once again, the threat of weather has me working from home, which I don’t mind at all. I have plenty of official sorts of things to review and wordsmith, which should keep me busy for my requisite eight hours of workday. That said, otherwise, the week’s been kind of a dud. I was ready to […]

maintaining radio silence, more or less

07 Jan

I imagine all you readers out there clamoring for my lastest thoughts and feelings on the world at large, all three or four of you, are probably pretty disappointed at my output lately. You know what, I’m not thrilled about it either. However, I’m not sure when or if things are going to change, at […]

friday random ten – “splitting headache” edition

14 Dec

As alluded to in the last post with the kitten, the stress levels I’m dealing with are through the roof at the moment. For all kinds of reasons. This time, all that stress is going straight to my head, providing sustenance and power to those gnomes in my frontal lobe with the pneumatic hammers…you know […]

after a week of being shaken up

08 Dec

I purposely don’t talk much about work here except in generalities; there’s something to be said for establishing some boundaries between my lives there and out here in the digital æther. That said, this new job involves some definite life-changing arrangements that seem like proper grist for the blog mill, so, I’m going to talk […]

isn’t banned books week at the *end* of the month?

12 Sep

With school back in session, it was only a matter of time before stories like this one started cropping up; with parents complaining to school boards about the inappropriateness of titles on the school reading list. Not surprisingly, I’m against this sort of thing. Part of the process of education is expanding one’s base of […]

always the moon

28 Aug

As a geek and general fan of science-ey and space-ey things, I understand the significance of Neil Armstrong’s passing this weekend. The first man who walked on the Moon; the man who did that big momentous thing so seemingly effortlessly (other than managing to miss an “A” in his big moment in the spotlight, anyway); […]

tell me why I don’t like mondays

06 Aug

Given that I spent a little while this weekend listening to someone make some remarks about “The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all”, and that at least a few of those remarks related to gun violence, I was particularly attuned to, and dismayed by the fact that on my morning […]

rebuilding and dealing with guilt

22 Jul

So, somewhere in the last couple of days, my Windows 7 install decided to go ahead and eat the GRUB sector on my dual boot Win7/Ubuntu desktop. My lovely wife tried fixing it, and despite her normally amazing competence at fixing that sort of thing when linux is involved, she couldn’t make things work. So, […]

a rare occasion of demographic trends proving me to be mainstream for once

13 Jun

I’ve always (and by “always” I mean “since I bothered to actually think about it”) been rather annoyed by the “everybody knows that” assumption that people grow more conservative as they get older. You know the words by now – sing along if you feel like it (this is allegedly Churchill’s version): Anyone who isn’t […]

old school rollin’ and a few other things

04 Jun

The last few days have been very trying for me, physically and emotionally. Don’t worry, I’ll pull through, but don’t get concerned if it looks like I’m maintaining radio silence – I am, but only because I need some time to hide away in an undisclosed location and recharge. before I go, though, I wanted […]

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