As you may have heard, though maybe not, as the news seems to have forgotten this story, the furloughs got cut from eleven to six days. As such, today is my last furlough day. Starting next week, I’m back to working and getting paid for the customary forty hours per week. As much as I’ll […]

I got up early for a doctor’s appointment, then tried strapping the bike rack on the new car. Thankfully, it fit without too much trouble, even if the bike looks huge hanging off the back: Finding that things fit, I took a nice 10 miler through the woods over at Dutch Gap Conservation area before […]

I really didn’t do much of anything, because of this damned summer cold I found myself saddled with. Laundry and rest, basically. I played some music with some people on Sunday, and couple of us parental types took our kids collectively bowling. That was kind of cool. In amongst that, I started hacking around with […]

…Lego Marvel Superheroes has certainly become one now, especially after this announcement hit the ‘tubes: Waugh!

Yes, I’ve been somewhat quiet lately – heck, I’ve posted little but the occasional song list and some silly pictures for most of the last year. You all know my schedule, so you know what life’s been like for me lately – something has to take the hit, and it seems it’s been the blogging. […]

From page 112 of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane: I’m going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don’t don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when […]

Being Friday, I have included some tunes from the soundtrack to my day, which got a little longer than usual – when I’m in a system testing mode, I tend to block everything else out, and just let things play. I meant to stop at ten, but since I was in that sort of OCD […]

So…yeah. It’s been a long week (despite being shorter than usual thanks to some time off from work), and it ain’t over yet. Next week looks just as loaded. Hrm. My commute this week has been relatively easy, thankfully – I’ve been working throught he audiobook of John Krakauer’s Into the Wild, which pieces together […]

Being nice June Saturday, and given the fact that my wife and eldest are off doing the anime convention thing so I’m on the lookout for things to keep the younger two kids distracted from the fact that mom’s not here, we took a trip out to a local park to do a short hike […]

It’s been a week. Not an awful week, aside from a couple of long work days and one bout of near crippling insomnia the night before I had an important meeting in DC (still nailed it, btw), but a week, largely dedicated to stacking the deck to make the next couple of weeks flow more […]