So, I’ve been on “vacation” more or less for a couple of days. There’s been, to be sure, some chores, some parenting, and some last minute holiday shopping (mostly extraneous bits – the actual “shopping” has been done for more than a week). But, in there too, were a couple of nice “dates” out with […]

The ideas put forth in the lastest article at Pandagon, “Believers Believe, Yes, But Because They Want To“, and especially the comments this piece is going to draw, are going to be interesting. Many people will be put off by the overt atheism of the source, but beyond that, there’s some really interesting questions about […]

It’s been a while since I’ve really gotten away from it all. It was time. My friend Jason and I spent Saturday hiking a little piece of the Appalachian Trail through Shenandoah National Park in Western Virginia. As you can see above, it was an excellent day for a hike in the mountains, even if […]

Great Caesar’s Ghost, it’s December already! This mildly panicked reaction brought to you by the fact that after today, I only have eight more days at work left in 2011.

The preponderance of little but cat videos for the last week should tell you all something. I took a little break from the grind. Over the course of my career thus far, I’ve traditionally worked with the kind of person who hosted their family’s Thanksgiving feast, so I’ve usually been the guy who stayed around […]

I finished several things yesterday. It feels like I accomplished something. writing my NaNoWriMo project. A solid 50k + word first draft. Might be a good 35k word novella in there with some judicious editing. a first read-through on a huge pile of documentation. Useful and necessary for an ongoing extracurricular project. reading a book. […]

Today, November 8, is election day in the United States. So go and vote. Yes, it’s an off-year election, which, if your ballot looked like mine when I absenteed it a couple of days ago (business travel this week), means lots of local races for school board and county board of supervisors and stuff. Just […]

Last minute changes in plans scuttled my original weekend schedule, but it all kind of worked out. No worries, I got a little bit more sleep and a bit of a break. Doesn’t change the fact that once you’ve properly girded yourself for a given task, having it fall off the schedule at the last […]

I haven’t had a lot of time to be online this week. In between meetings, dealing with non-specific evening issues, not feeling all that great, and the beginning of NaNoWriMo (giving it another shot, this time with…an outline!), I just haven’t had much blogging inclination. I have seen/heard a couple of things worth passing on […]

For reasons that still kind of elude me, this weekend involved cramming more stuff into 72 hours or so than is really possible or advisable, but a lot of it was quite a bit of fun. Still, I’m finding myself dragging a bit, largely due to sleep deficit and a few aches and pains as […]