If all had gone perfectly, as I type this, I should have been arriving in Northern VA for a bitchin’ heavy metal show featuring Mike T.. But I’m not. Earlier this afternoon, I got a call indicating the show was off; no worries, this stuff sometimes happens. Oh well; there’d be less rushing around, and […]

…and various and sundry other non-consequential details. Free food and free internet this week (plus free alcohol if I so desire), which is kind of nice. No wonder I can never get into this place consistently. It is a little bit out of the way, but there’s some interesting stuff a few blocks’ walk from […]

During the usual Saturday-after-payday shopping, I was wandering through Costco, checking out the DVD shelf, and, Lo-And-Behold, out in plain sight, three days before official release, was a fresh case of “The Incredible Hulk” 3-disc special edition DVDs for reasonably cheap. So, of course, I grabbed one. Far be it from me to pass up […]

Thanks to the holiday this week, it’s a rare Friday in DC for me. The new office, I’ve recently discovered, was empty a month ago, and has been completely recarpeted and painted (notice I didn’t say “cleaned”); this leads to all sorts of new allergens for me to cope with. Ah – Choo. Anyway, here’s […]

Today I spent NINE HOURS in meetings; part of the “kick-off” dog-and-pony show for my workplace’s latest software project iteration. Not that it was particularly different than the last half-dozen “kick-offs” I’ve attended since becoming Information Systems Analyst Guy™; same people, same basic slide shows, same monotone delivery. Ideally, these things are designed to build […]

On the whole, the weekend wasn’t a bad one, though the shadows of a couple of serious downers cast a somewhat nasty pall over a generally okay landscape. Not the best of metaphors, I admit, but accurate nonetheless. I took a few hours off of work on Friday, which is always a good way to […]

I have a small fondness for Rocky Horror, but yeah, I’ve mostly outgrown it; Spaced pretty much nailed the limited shelf life of it’s appeal. Still, the original version is a camp classic that any “hip”, “with-it” student of pop culture ought to be at least passingly familiar with. I say “original version”, because apparently […]

I generally really like my job. I do interesting and challenging work; solving problems, and coming up with new ways for people to perform tasks more effectively. Most days at closing time, I can point to at least one thing I’m proud of having accomplished. Then there are days like today, when all I do […]

George Carlin died. Dammit. He got the lead story on NPR this morning (not sure what that says about the media…). When I heard this morning on the way to work, I knocked off a quick text to Colleen at a red light. You could actually kind of feel the gasp in her simple “wow” […]

Since it’s unlikely I’m going to have a working computer on my desk at work tomorrow morning, I’m just going to go ahead and take care of this now: “I Wanna Be Your Hero” – Def Leppard “Thank You For Sharing” – Vanity Project “Cuyahoga” – REM “One Love” – Pat Benatar “The Human Hosepipe” […]