Another week where I’m filling in for the boss, and spending too much time on conference calls. This is starting to become a habit, and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I suppose it’s inevitable, as so many folks look to me as the substitute boss most of the time anyway, but it’s […]

So many slides. Over and over. Hours and hours. That’s the story of my week. Couple of big briefings for folks in the rarified air of senior management, plus a handful of training sessions on how to use simple SharePoint libraries delivered to uncooperative audiences, along with all the preparation and editing and run-throughs and […]

The past weekend and several days on either side of it have been kind of a roller coaster… First of all, the big birthday party for my lovely spouse went off amazingly well, both in terms of remembering how to host events, as well as “beta testing” the new house space as a music venue. […]

Let’s just say that I would really rather not have this week repeating over and over; it kinda sucked. Lots of stupid work drama, an unpleasant flirtation with the illness that the rest of my family was dealing with last week, a bunch of disappearing mp3s, and a bit of self-inflicted stress as we prepare […]

The previous week was, for the most part uneventful apart from some periodic occurrences hitting their intervals. Got a bunch of work stuff done, including actually using my B.S. in Education(!); prepping a lesson plan and teaching a class on certain bureaucratic processes I’ve managed to become the expert on. I also had my annual […]

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 […]