I don’t love wearing the mask when I go out into the world, but I do because it’s the socially responsible thing to do. It doesn’t *feel* right in terms of interaction with others – humans are social creatures who engage with the world through facial expression, and it’s just harder when half the face […]

Today’s header refers not to unfortunate automotive issues (thank goodness), but rather to an old joke I’ve likely made at least a few times before in this space over the years, about having difficulty “getting my ass in gear.” The last few days, while not being particularly unpleasant, seem to line up with some song […]

Being Monday, spirits are not particularly high. Heck, spirits weren’t that high for most of the weekend. I’m just kind of on the low point in the curve, but that’s what it is. The Zoom-based virtual wedding party/thing was kind of fun; we enjoyed spending time with friends in a Brady-Bunch like array on the […]

Being socially distant is probably for the best the last day or two. We’ve hit that part of the quarantine time cycle where I am very quick to snap at anybody and everything that impedes my ability to get my work done, go to the bathroom on my schedule, or simply gets in the way […]

Well, in the last hour or two we just got word that ConCarolinas is canceled for the year. There will be some online content, of course, but I won’t be in Charlotte rocking the place with my friends at the end of May. Also, as I suspected, but confirmed today, my May 9 show at […]

Since my last dispatch 48 hours or so ago, it’s honestly pretty much the same. I get up, I work for a few hours in the company of my cat, sit conference calls and answer emails, then I try and come up with other stuff to fill the time; and honestly, with few exceptions, I […]

I check in today to let the world know I’m still here, existing. The weekend was what it was; sticking around the house except to do a pretty big grocery run and on Sunday to pick up a new blu-ray player I ordered online from Target, because when you’re stuck in the house, the ability […]

A relatively quiet Thursday, I think, was a welcome relief to internals. Work was stagnant,largely because I worked my ass off on Wednesday and the email server was choking much of the day (big influx of junk in the last hour, but it was all junk), which I’m not going to complain about – I […]

Because I can’t think of anything else, I’ll quote Douglas Adams for today’s headline. Seems as good a thing as any. I was, as you can clearly read, less than my best self yesterday. Doesn’t mean the feelings weren’t valid, because certain business processes do indeed suck. However, I did get a Metric Assload™ of […]

The weekend; it certainly happened. The good news is I went out shopping and even found toilet paper for sale on Saturday morning. The bad news is that I went out shopping and continued to lose faith in my humanity (for all the same reasons I’ve described in past posts), and while I was out, […]