As indicated in the last post, I spent a lot of time in the company of other humans this weekend. The birthday party was low-key, but attended by a bunch of people I didn’t know all that well. That said, we spent a pleasant couple of hours chatting with our elders, and watching the birthday […]

If one were given to wallow in cliche, absence, they say, makes the heart grow fonder. Honestly, though, based on the stats, mostly don’t think anybody much cares. Apart from a couple of playlist posts the last couple of weeks, I’ve been largely absent from this space. And if I’m absent, pretty much everybody’s absent; […]

As I’m still fighting off this respiratory thing, I spent the weekend largely down, trying to rest and medicate this thing away. The weather cooperated with me by being largely garbage all weekend, so I wasn’t particularly tempted to push myself with outdoor exercise. I watched a couple of movies, played some Pokemon, read some […]

Y’know, I really can’t remember a week where I was so exhausted both physically and mentally. Once again, work had me earning my raise with some long days and excessive mental processing, and given the gorgeous weather we’ve had around these parts this week, I rode off the mental by putting over 70 miles (so […]

…but the obstacles, however minor, keep doing the things that obstacles do, and getting in the way of anything resembling accomplishment. I have a job; one that I’m good at, pays well, and that, under most circumstances, I don’t mind doing at all (and sometimes even enjoy), except all this administrative stuff, two hour meetings […]

Long week where I didn’t get nearly as much done as I’d wanted to, due to many factors, including spring break absences at work, thunderstorm and tornado warnings, and some biological events you really don’t want the details of, but kept me within spitting distance of a restroom most of the week. Ew. Got a […]

Apart from all the bullshit (insert link to absolutely any news website right now), some cool stuff happened on the US political front this week.  President Obama visited the White House for the first time since he left office back in ’17, in support of a fix to the “family glitch”, a calculation bug in […]

It was a week. Not much more, not much less. I honestly don’t remember much of it…between work, exercise, eating something or other, getting this tune stuck in my head thanks to the ice skating class across the way, the entertainment highlight that was Moon Knight, struggling with the dense text of the novel I’m […]

The weekend, all told, wasn’t awesome. Saturday morning, I awoke to find our dear, elderly, crazy, mixed-up cat Charlotte had passed quietly in the early hours of the morning. She’d been slowing down for a while, having suffered a stroke a year or two back, and having a couple of episodes in the last couple […]

As per usual, these four day weeks are always busier than the usual five day package. Just seems like all the meetings and briefings and problems rear their heads at the office, along with more-intense-than-usual drama elsewhere. If the world cooperates, I’ll likely knock off a little early, though the world hasn’t cooperated so far, […]