22 Oct
Seems I’ve been pushing myself hard this week, even as I intended certain elements to be “low impact,” in the sense that I gave my muscles a bit of a break by leaving the bike in storage and instead spending some time hiking the local trails after work as my chosen fitness-slash-head-clearing activity. Being able […]
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04 Oct
Gig played. Wrocked the heck out of Arlington. It was a damned good show, if I do say so myself. Nice dinner afterwards just chilling with my lovely spouse and our friends as well. The whole thing was so pleasant, I’m willing to mostly forget the absolutely crap traffic up and back. On Sunday, I […]
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01 Oct
Up until around 8pm last night, I didn’t know whether I’d be working today or not. That’s really not a nice feeling. Congress did, however, manage to kick the can down the road at least a week or two, so I continue to sit conference calls, review test data, and work out how to make […]
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24 Sep
So, didn’t love this week at all, apart from a couple of very brief bursts of seratonin. For the most part, thanks to allergies, that muscle pull from last week, garbage weather, long work days, and unexpected adventures in busted ignition switches, tow trucks, and navigating warranty conditions, I spent a lot of the week […]
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17 Sep
it’s a stretch, but this image will make sense eventually, I promise Well, it’s certainly been a week, technically short as it was. As indicated previously, my lovely spouse and I spent Monday in the car driving east from Indiana; said drive was less pleasant than the drive west; in part, I suppose, do to […]
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16 Sep
Just have to say, we really enjoyed our time away last weekend. Good food, good friends, some great music, and maybe a little too much beer, but it felt wonderful spending time with people in pleasant, welcoming spaces. Muncie, Indiana, at least the downtown area where we spent most of our time, is a beautiful […]
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09 Sep
As I’ll be on the road heading west tomorrow when I’d normally weigh in with this weekly post, I’m tossing it out this morning, and not even delaying it’s posting, because…well, I don’t know why. I guess I never got the hang of…etc. I’ve alluded to this particular adventure in vague terms over the last […]
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07 Sep
Labor Day weekend was, on the whole, uneventful. The usual sort of thing I normally do on the weekend, except as I get Monday free, I got to stay up a little late on Sunday night playing D&D over Roll20 with my friends, and had a nice bike ride on Monday morning before settling in […]
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03 Sep
In any normal year, I’d already be in Atlanta, hauling gear up hotel stairways, dodging Deadpools in the habitrails, and guessing which cast member of Battlestar Galactica I’d end up next to at the urinals. But, as we all know, this isn’t a normal year. Although I’m fully vaccinated, even with the generally good procedures […]
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31 Aug
Just a couple of notes of celebration, or something… Note The First: I did my third cycling fifty(-two)-miler of the summer on Sunday. Averaged over 14mph, knocked twenty minutes off of my best time, and did the whole business in under four hours. My ass kind of gave out after about 45 miles, but that’s […]
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