it’s a stretch, but this image will make sense eventually, I promise Well, it’s certainly been a week, technically short as it was. As indicated previously, my lovely spouse and I spent Monday in the car driving east from Indiana; said drive was less pleasant than the drive west; in part, I suppose, do to […]

The video above is not only objectively the best Katy Perry song, it’s also an adequate descriptor of the week. Outside, it’s regularly breaking 100° and inside, at my work desk at home, I’m wearing a sweatshirt, because my chair sits right on top of the air conditioning vent (which is the closest vent to […]

As I do most mornings after clearing out the inbox and before diving into the day’s litany of meetings and paperwork, I can the news headlines of the day, as being informed on the world around me is part of my responsibility as a citizen, as well as telling me what the weather’s going to […]

A mixed bag for the weekend, honestly, but the good was a nice surprise, and the bad at least made some progress. Finally had the poor, overworked A/C technician come by to address the A/C unit (poor guy is ridiculously overbooked and has way too large an area to cover); diagnosing was easy enough (bad […]

In most respects, this week has been pretty darned typical. Apart from my taking the day off Monday, it’s been work, bike, read, watch some stuff on TV. And Oh yeah, deal with the frustration of things breaking or wearing out…again. The VPN at work has been crashing hard all week, especially on Thursday. There’s […]

It really wasn’t the most awesome weekend, sad to say. Really, I honestly just started behind, unable to shake continuing bureaucratic nightmares that seem to be my lot in life these last few weeks (I’m taking all kinds of heat because my name is on a project that is being held up by two warring […]

I took a few days off last week. I rather needed it. I slept in (for certain personal values of “slept in”), got some stuff done that needed doing (mowed the grass, detailed the car, etc), tried to relax a bit, and then on Friday, I got up in the morning and did the Cap2Cap, […]

In an *interesting* development, ten days after getting my second dose of the Pfizer shot, Monday night I got hit with a repeat performance of those wonderful side effects. Not as intense as the initial round, but still a slightly elevated fever, muscle aches, and swollen lymph nodes. Joy. I know this means that it’s […]

Apart from my spending the whole week thinking it was a day later than it was, I got a heck of a lot done, at least up until Thursday. Never got the hang, etc. Earlier in the week, they started migrating the email system at work to a different platform (the whats and whos aren’t […]

So, I came to the realization mid-way through yesterday that I’ve been working way too damned hard the last two weeks. It’s true, I’ve been hugely productive at work, I’ve ridden a ton of miles on the bike, and I’ve even gotten a start on the Humdingers tracks I owe my bandmates down south. That […]