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, […]

no idea why I’m always slightly out of frame in action shots… Marscon was, as it always is, a good time; it’s home. It’s the place where my con music career transformed from the guy in the back of the filk room all the way up to the guy with a well-attended solo set on […]

As mentioned previously, this weekend is Marscon, and given that, I’m doing my usual Friday post on Thursday in order to get it out of the way, because I’ll have things to do tomorrow; even if I did take a long weekend, which I damned well deserved. Definitely deserved it because this has been one […]

Much has been made of the stories of the current conflict resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Zelenskyy’s masterful social media management; the stories of bravery from Ukrainian citizens, Putin’s seemingly unhinged state of mind. Americans missing the effing point… It’s interesting, that for, perhaps the first time since WWII, certainly the first time in […]

Between load-in Friday night and all day behind the board on Saturday, the dance competition ate up a good chunk of the weekend. It could have been much more frustrating than it was; not to say that there wasn’t *any* frustration, from the usual personalities, but I got through the day with minimal hiccups, and […]

If you’ve been regularly reading this space for the last, um, two years or so, I’ve been stressed as hell lately and not exactly in the best frame of mind. Pretty obvious, right? After the last few weeks, I pretty much decided that I was taking this long President’s Day weekend and spending at least […]

If I look back at the calendar and tally all the stuff I clearly got done, it’s obvious there was a weekend, but damn if I’m not having a bit of a difficult time feeling like I had two days away from my desk and all the usual office weirdness of making sure the data […]

For the second time in as many weeks, my region of the country is sliding into the weekend with an allegedly significant weather event. Yesterday was rain and snow that mostly amounted to nothing but what’ll prove to be slick roads today as it’s probably not going to break above freezing all day. Tonight they’re […]

On the main, this entire week’s just kind of blurred by; work day full of meetings and PowerPoint slides, headlines full of doom, gloom, and gridlock, brisk walks in the woods to clear the head, clean-the-cabinets sort of dinners, and watching a program or two on the TV before going to bed. Y’know, the usual. […]