As hinted at last week, I spent a great deal of this week fighting off a sinus bug that’s making its way around the household. I plodded through the work week, got some minimal time outside (my Pikmin Bloom group pooling for 100k steps is going to be tight), and did my best to sleep […]

I’m honestly not sure why, though I spent a good bit of this week feeling like I was on the edge of sick. Exhausted, hot/cold flashes, headaches, and all that good stuff. I continued to plow through my week nonetheless, because there’s stuff that had to be done, including some extra running about, as until […]

Few particularly noteworthy accomplishments to report this week. Last weekend? Sure. All those previously mentioned events went off without a hitch, and on Sunday I did a two-fer on state parks, hitting York River and Machicomico, hiking a little over eleven miles between them, and ticking off the next milestone on the Trail Quest business. […]

Another week in the can, and for once, it mostly resembled a regular 40 hour week, apart from the fact that I took Tuesday off to do some doc appointments and trek out to Bear Creek Lake State Park. With the business cases mostly in the can, we’re prepping for the big in-process review with […]

It’s been another long week, even if the end of this particular project is in sight at work. We’ll get there. But that’s not what I’m going to focus on this morning. What I’m going to talk about is watching one of my favorite things in the world destroy itself in real time. I’m not […]

Sorry, no Friday post this week, I’ve been way too busy copy-editing business documents written by people who really ought to be able to manage subject-verb agreement, but clearly can’t. Also, I wrote the first draft of every one of these with convenient places for folks to simply enter in their details for their specific […]

Apparently, somewhere in the last forty-eight hours or so, there was a weekend, but I’ll be damned if I can see where the time went when looking back. Sure, objectively, I did things. Shopping, laundry, installing trim to hold the laminate floor down, hiking a bunch of miles along the river, taking my wife out […]

As has been mentioned previously, I was not a guest at Marscon this year, though attended with my family as a civilian. This convention, what I consider my “home” convention for various reasons, had gone through some changes heading into this year, in terms of management and venue, and I wasn’t entirely sure what to […]

…and we’re back. I never managed to put up anything like my traditional year-end wrap up post, but honestly, I’m not that worried. It’s more work than it’s worth most of the time. I put almost 2200 miles on my bike tires and/or boot soles, which isn’t bad, and I think I’m a net five […]

Today, with any luck, is my last work day of the year 2022. I say “with any luck,” because the last couple of months have been awfully crazy and given where I am in the organization (basically management’s back-up brain and copy editor these days), I can’t rule out the odd phone call about where […]