I really didn’t do much of anything, because of this damned summer cold I found myself saddled with. Laundry and rest, basically. I played some music with some people on Sunday, and couple of us parental types took our kids collectively bowling. That was kind of cool. In amongst that, I started hacking around with […]

Yes, I’ve been somewhat quiet lately – heck, I’ve posted little but the occasional song list and some silly pictures for most of the last year. You all know my schedule, so you know what life’s been like for me lately – something has to take the hit, and it seems it’s been the blogging. […]

Picked it up Friday. Very nice. 2013 Toyota Yaris SE. Looks like this: (That one isn’t mine, but looks exactly like this.) Anyway, I like it so far, after only about 250 miles (we took a ride out to Williamsburg on Saturday for a shake-down). Glad this whole insurance claim business is over. It wasn’t […]

Among other things, I got the second appraisal/estimate today. The other guy’s insurance seems to think it can be fixed. Of course, other guy’s insurance company spent maybe fifteen minutes looking at the car. The good news is that he cut me a check on the spot, which, according to my insurance company, means that […]

My Independence Day vacation time hasn’t been all that cool…or at least the early parts of it. After finishing work for the week on Wednesday afternoon, Colleen and I decided to take a little drive off by ourselves for a while. We needed to get out of the house, maybe check out what food trucks […]

Not a new thing in this space, certainly, but damn, if Carrie Vaughn didn’t just write something I feel like I could’ve written myself: My eyes kind of bug out when anyone talks about wanting to be a kid again, or that high school was the best time of their lives. Being a kid means […]

From page 112 of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane: I’m going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don’t don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when […]

Being Friday, I have included some tunes from the soundtrack to my day, which got a little longer than usual – when I’m in a system testing mode, I tend to block everything else out, and just let things play. I meant to stop at ten, but since I was in that sort of OCD […]

Being nice June Saturday, and given the fact that my wife and eldest are off doing the anime convention thing so I’m on the lookout for things to keep the younger two kids distracted from the fact that mom’s not here, we took a trip out to a local park to do a short hike […]

It’s been a week. Not an awful week, aside from a couple of long work days and one bout of near crippling insomnia the night before I had an important meeting in DC (still nailed it, btw), but a week, largely dedicated to stacking the deck to make the next couple of weeks flow more […]