So, 2025. Not at all sorry to see it go. as far as things go, the bad outweighed the good by several orders of magnitude. Stress and anxiety galore, in near-constant fight-or-flight mode since January, never knowing what terrible thing was going to happen next. I made a few neat things and saw a few […]

Not much to be said about my first week of year-end leave burn; got a handful of things done around the house, took about ten miles of walk with the dog, nursed the lovely spouse through a sinus infection, and got my teeth cleaned. But mostly, though? I played some video games, read a couple […]

I guess that should read “It’ll be…”, but then the reference to arguably the biggest hit of a scrappy 90s Canadian pop quintet I once had a beer with in Philadelphia would be lost, and that’s a world I don’t wish to live in. What I’m really referring to is the fact that I’ve got […]

As is tradition, I shall be pretty much going dark for the upcoming holiday weekend. Going to touch a little grass, eat and drink a bit, and ignore (if not turn off completely) the phone. It’s a bit of self-care that I, as they say, mindfully practice. Plus, this year, there’s already been too much […]

The last couple of weeks…they’ve been a lot. We wrapped the “longest in history” business, with some mixed feelings. We’re back, we’ve been back paid, and life continues. Of course, being what time of year it is, the fact that it’s only a continuing resolution means there’s no money on the books yet, and starting […]

Another week, more gossip, stress, bullshit, “senior officials” dropping dubious tips in the press, and no real movement. This is my world now. The big story of the week, however, the absolute electoral blowout here and elsewhere, which (along with hearing that a couple of my favorite co-workers took advantage of the current business to […]

So, we’re well into week four, and still no particular movement on anything. The legislative branch continues to stay buried in their bunkers, emerging every now and then to vote the same way they have the last dozen times, and the executive branch is way more into trashing landmarks of great historical significance than governing […]

Such a week. I got a lot of stuff done, around the house and creatively (knocked out the bones of pretty much a whole album), though between entering shutdown week three, experiencing a personal health setback, some minor drama elsewhere, fearing for a cat’s life, and the effing dishwasher dying…again, it’s not been entirely awesome. […]

If you’re all reading the news at all, you know what’s going on. To answer all messages and calls from dear friends referenced in the title of this post…I’m managing. This one feels like it’s going to last a while, what with the devolving of most serious political discourse into memes of dubious quality and […]

So I was largely off the grid on Tuesday; spending way too much time in meetings during the day, and an allergy-aggravated headache that might well be a migraine creeping in, so I dragged myself home and mostly lie in the dark with my eyes covered until bedtime, which came earlier than usual. So I […]