This space has been pretty quiet for the last little while; not much but playlists most weeks and complaining about work stuff. That’s honestly been the standard agenda with life lately, and I’m tired of repeating myself. Also, it’s just been busy; long hours, getting yanked into unpleasant temporary supervisory stuff, and I’d rather sit […]

Bureaucratic Talking Shutdown Blues – 2023 edition by Chuck Parker Assuming all goes well and the Freedom Caucus and Senator Rand Paul don’t decide to shake things up, the CR that expires at midnight tonight will be succeeded by a full half-year official budget for my half of the Federal Government, and we won’t shut […]

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 […]

The holidays around here were quiet, I guess, which is okay. Christmas was low-key; we didn’t even really decorate, in part, because those sorts of things are buried in the back of the storage unit we’re still working through, and if there was a tree in the way, putting up the bookshelves we bought ourselves […]

As I do, here’s a summary of the just-ended year as defined by pure numbers. A few of the standard categories went down, but as you can see elsewhere in the list, I’ve been busy elsewhere. Lots of stuff going on, as you can see. miles hiked or biked: 1608 rides longer than 50 miles: […]

Yes, I’ve been absent. It’s been a couple of weeks. I’ve been working like crazy. my lovely spouse has been dealing with medical issues. I’ve been helping. I’m trying to get a recording project done. I’ve been unpacking boxes. I’ve been hanging curtains. I’ve been reading books. I’ve been working even more. Life’s busy. But, […]

So, I’m going to call my posting of the new version of “Shutdown Blues” a stroke of luck, because, as you, a reader well-informed on the news of the day, know the government didn’t shut down over the weekend, which, honestly, was fine, apart from the knowledge that it’s all the more likely we’ll be […]

As of this past Wednesday, we’ve been in this house for two weeks. There are still boxes everywhere, though there are fewer than there were two weeks ago, and as I type this (on Thursday evening), I’m sitting here listening to some tunes (a new record from Worm Quartet, mostly) and the new LG WashTower […]

Another week down and all that…one that’s been pretty dull overall. Got out and spent some time outside, though not yesterday when it was gorgeous and I was stuck in a pre-brief for a CIO in-process review until almost 6pm, but whatever. Still hit my fitness goals every other day, got my stuff done, and […]

Sorry, no Friday post this week, I’ve been way too busy copy-editing business documents written by people who really ought to be able to manage subject-verb agreement, but clearly can’t. Also, I wrote the first draft of every one of these with convenient places for folks to simply enter in their details for their specific […]