Today, Dear Reader, I wrap up the work-a-day portion of 2009; this afternoon, I begin my well-deserved restful slide into the next arbitrarily defined trip around the sun. That said, I’m probably going to have mostly limited contact with the internet, execept for when the toddler starts bugging me to look at cute pictures of […]

About an hour ago, I typed “the end” on my first NaNoWriMo project, provisionally titled Get Out of my Head!, crossing over the 50k goal in the midst of the denouement. A full eleven days before the deadline. And I owe it all to spending way too much time living in hotel rooms. I’m reasonably […]

At the office this morning, I was visited by a trio of co-workers collectively wearing hot dog, ketchup and mustard costumes and handing out “treats” of ketchup and mustard packets. It’s going to be one of those days, and I’m okay with that. This kind of surreality is one of the reasons why I like […]

I took a long weekend away from the biggest part of the grind; didn’t go much anywhere (except for a little shopping and into the city for a few hours with the eldest for dance class), and spent the time getting some chores done, reading some books, and playing some games. I almost feel rejuvinated, […]

Pres-sure!! …and some cleaning supplies.

A good friend of mine at work was “cleaning out” her email inbox last night, and discovered and forwarded to me a message that I sent her ten years ago; a copy of the fax cover sheet for an office we once worked in that hasn’t existed in quite some time. It was, if nothing […]

The week’s been mostly a blur; lots of kid taxi duty, review sessions on training materials for software that hasn’t even made it through preliminary build yet, homework assistance, funeral services, making a nuisance of myself to certain financial institutions, and planning for weekend projects. I’ve honestly been losing track of what day it was […]

As much as I’m not a fan of “kid” and “grown-up” being non-overlapping circles in the Venn diagram of life, I’ve noticed over the last year or two that there’s one area where it feels like I’ve crossed the line; boarded the elfship and sailed Into The West, never to return to Middle-Earth. Or to […]

The weekend just rushed by, honestly; I can list the stuff I accomplished, but it doesn’t feel like the time actually existed; you know, a couple of days passing in a dream, only without the presence of the Ressikan flute (though Catherine did hand me a kazoo at one point). A lot of the time […]

Scalzi dropped an interesting statement last night, asking if it makes sense to anyone else: As I get older, I worry less about “life being fair” and worry rather more about justice. For my part, I think it does, though to talk about it, one needs to define, exactly, "fairness" and "justice" mean (which is […]