Today is my last scheduled day of work for 2020. I’ve tied up everything I need to apart from one email response from one individual, who’s reply need only consist of “thumbs up*” for me to close the book on this particular item and feel like I’m keeping the project on track. Also, my body […]

Today inaugurates my last working week of 2020. Thursday afternoon after logging off for the year(!), I shall do the usual run to the pet store to buy cat food, and (assuming further restrictions are not imposed in the meantime and there’s a free table for me to sit down) then visit the Kroger bar […]

Long day yesterday, longer day today, complicated by a bad reaction to dinner last night. Also, head’s clogged up, and I feel numb, like I’m encased in bubble wrap, except without the cool David Gilmour lead guitar lines behind me. As such, I present the following:

After I finished work on Friday afternoon, I took a quick drive over to my favored local park to get a little outside time. As my ankle’s still healing up, I wasn’t planning anything particularly strenuous, just a little amble along the marsh and a sit on the bench overlooking the river junction for a […]

In the end, this week hasn’t necessarily been as bad as it’s posts suggest. Progress has been made. It’s looking like that work headache is finally clearing, and the (totally not mine) delays have been noticed by levels of power that might be able to effect change (but I’m not holding my breath). Also, earlier […]

…other than the fact that I feel like these guys are always right around the corner lately. Things are going to get better. Kind of have to.

I know it’s cliche by this point, but 2020 has been, and continues to be the best practical case for evidence of time dilation in terms of relative perception in recent memory. Psychologists and physicists will be writing papers on this for decades. Remember Four Season Total Landscaping? That was only three weeks ago. In […]

In plowing through the initial pile of work emails this morning, amongst the wheat (useful test results and signed documents – 20%) and chaff (random garbage, pointless cc:’s, etc – 80%) was a copy of a job announcement to fill the recently-vacated Deputy CxO in my organization. This isn’t particularly abnormal; when something like this […]

Indeed, a week. As briefly teased in earlier dispatches, I’ve spent a large part of the week dealing with petty bureaucrats and their petty power-trips. It has, for the large part, sucked, though after working with some dare-i-say “allies” within the organization, I unleashed a little bit of bureaucratic jujitsu of my own, and have […]

…which is shameful. If you won’t listen to science or the case for public welfare, maybe you’ll listen to Baby Yoda: Although, in the end, while it may be Dolly who saves us, it’s going to be a while. And as winter comes, holidays happen, and people get even more lax about taking precautions than […]