With the holidays and work and weather and life and stuff, it’s been four months since I added a new state park to my Trail Quest list. I figured I ought to do something about that, so while the rest of the family (all of them fighting some sort of bug that’s let me alone […]

I was only in the office for three days this week, after wrapping a kick-ass first year of ConVivial, where I had a whole bunch of shows, panels, quality time with friends, pleasant conversations, and maybe one or two too many drinks, though all that other stuff got me more than my share of steps […]

It’s been a week, and it’s only Wednesday morning. I’m done. The winter storm covering most of the country east of the Mississippi has mostly dumped a bunch of rain on the RVA parade; somewhere between two and three inches if I’m reading the charts right. It was enough, when combined with the winds the […]

After the holiday break and all it’s adventures, Tuesday I logged back in to the work network get a fresh start on the year. It’s mostly gone okay; a lot of folks are still out, but thankfully the ones I needed to talk to to get things moved along were around, for the most part, […]

The holidays around here were quiet, I guess, which is okay. Christmas was low-key; we didn’t even really decorate, in part, because those sorts of things are buried in the back of the storage unit we’re still working through, and if there was a tree in the way, putting up the bookshelves we bought ourselves […]

As I do, here’s a summary of the just-ended year as defined by pure numbers. A few of the standard categories went down, but as you can see elsewhere in the list, I’ve been busy elsewhere. Lots of stuff going on, as you can see. miles hiked or biked: 1608 rides longer than 50 miles: […]

By the time anyone reads this, I’ll be done working for the year. It’s kind of fitting that the big thing on my agenda for the last day is the try-to-make-it-quarterly touchpoint meeting with my supervisor to talk through the whole work experience thing and make plans for moving forward into 2024. So, having wrapped […]

Today I started my final work week for the year 2023. Three more days, and another work year is in the books. Honestly, I haven’t spent a lot of time reflecting, because I’ve been too damned busy tying things up before I take off for a week or so. …And of course today (actually over […]

We’re hitting that interesting time of year. Work, thankfully, is slowing down as all of my fellow public sector bureaucrats start burning their use-or-lose leave and leaving the halls of power empty (or emptier than usual, given the fact that so many of us work remotely now). The co-worker I’ve been unofficially mentoring for the […]

Given that it’s Thanksgiving tomorrow, I’m going to be going dark(er than usual) for a couple of days; it’s just easier for my mental health. Deal with it. But, before I do, I’m going to mention that I’ve got a gig a week after Thanksgiving at Dancing Kilt, where I’ll be playing my eclectic mix […]