27 Oct
Overall, this has been a pretty crappy week. Sunday morning I was chopping vegetables into the crock pot for vegetable soup and tagged the tip of my left ring finger with a just-swharpened knife. Ouch. Also, having the bandage there has wseriously impeded productivity; it keeps getting in the way of the typing by which […]
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21 Oct
Yes, I’ve been absent. It’s been a couple of weeks. I’ve been working like crazy. my lovely spouse has been dealing with medical issues. I’ve been helping. I’m trying to get a recording project done. I’ve been unpacking boxes. I’ve been hanging curtains. I’ve been reading books. I’ve been working even more. Life’s busy. But, […]
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04 Oct
So, I’m going to call my posting of the new version of “Shutdown Blues” a stroke of luck, because, as you, a reader well-informed on the news of the day, know the government didn’t shut down over the weekend, which, honestly, was fine, apart from the knowledge that it’s all the more likely we’ll be […]
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29 Sep
Bureaucratic Talking Shutdown Blues (2020) by Chuck Parker Damn, I’m getting a lot of mileage out of this tune, though I suppose I need to update it with some new lyrics, maybe about how this whole thing really stems from that one time that Kevin McCarthy cock-blocked Matt Gaetz… In any case, I’ve spent the […]
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15 Sep
This week was, if that’s possible right now….normal? The work week started out wrapping up the workshop my team’s been working the last couple of weeks, documenting processes and doing our best to impose order on the chaos that is our agency’s information technology department, at least in terms of how projects and acquisition requirements […]
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11 Sep
So, once again, my membership with independent music radio station wnrn pays off with free tickets to live shows in the area. This time, it was a pile of 90s rock bands touring together; exactly the sort of stuff one would hear on the radio while I was in college and my early ’20s. Fastball, […]
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06 Sep
So, I’m a week and a half into a two-week virtual program management workshop. I genuinely like my co-workers; they’re all decent people from the boss on down, and we’re all working toward making things in our organization work a little better and make a lot more sense. “Drinking from the fire hose” is only […]
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01 Sep
As of this past Wednesday, we’ve been in this house for two weeks. There are still boxes everywhere, though there are fewer than there were two weeks ago, and as I type this (on Thursday evening), I’m sitting here listening to some tunes (a new record from Worm Quartet, mostly) and the new LG WashTower […]
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22 Aug
Yesterday, the lovely spouse and I signed our names and initialed in a bunch of places within a four-inch-thick pile of papers (or a few dozen MB on the thumb drive included in the folder we walked away with), and I handed over probably the largest cashier’s check I’ll likely ever have to deal with […]
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18 Aug
So yes, it’s been a little quiet around these parts lately. You could say that we’ve been rather busy. That’s apart from healing up from my pine cone encounter that threw me over the handlebars of my bike and covered large bits of my body with road rash and bruises, and working with the body […]
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