Going on four days since the power went out. The power company information services still won’t commit to an estimated service restore date. Damn it all. I understand the concept of traige and such, and know that my neighborhood isn’t on the same piece of grid as anything important like a school, hospital, or major […]

Time really does move faster as you get older, doesn’t it? I went back and checked what I wrote to mark this occasion last year, and after glancing around adjacent posts a bit, what I remembered of them didn’t feel like a whole trip around the sun ago. Oh well. As I’m sure I commented […]

This afternoon between courses of laundry, I got a new version of the links up. With that, I think most of the kinks are out, and this site is now once again 99% open for business (I won’t commit to 100%; there’s always something broken somewhere). Also, some sad news from the homestead…even though ours […]

Happy Birthday, kid.

I was recently introduced to the concept of “”blogging as a spiritual practice.”” Not “”spiritual”” in the sense of either my youthful experience (angels, not thinking too hard about god, veiled right-wing propaganda) or “”celebrity”” spirituality as effectively satirized in the form of David St. Hubbins or Terry & Laurie Bohner on film, but “”spiritual”” […]

Underneath all the Smurfs and Cowboys & Aliens brouhaha, there was a another film that came out last weekend that got a lot of attention in certain corners, despite opening on only eight screens in the US. That movie? Attack The Block, a small British sci-fi/adventure film about a group of inner-city kids defending their […]

…but that’s not really going to stop me. I’m not geographically where I’d like to be this week, and that truly sucks. In the end, I shall manage, but so far, the universe appears to be holding a grudge, assuming that it could acutally do such things. Lots of little (and not so little) annoyances […]

Today I have been married to my spouse for thirteen years. Which is pretty cool, really. What’s cooler is that based on the (possibly flawed) math in my head, we’ve actually been something resembling a unit for about six years longer than that; something like not quite nineteen years. Doing some further math, given that […]

I’ve been following with interest the discussion at pandagon and elsewhere regarding the social implications of vegetarianism and veganism, particularly the apparent difficulty experienced by people in relationships where one partner is vegan and the other is not. It’s an interesting topic that one might not immediately think about; the importance of food in our […]

Sad to say, despite some cool stuff this weekend, I’m having one of those down periods. We’ll just say that yesterday, for all kinds of reasons, just wasn’t optimal, and I was, frankly, relieved to go to bed and put it death, at least figuratively. That said, I still did some objectively cool and interesting […]