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friday random elevenish: “montage!” edition

16 May

Another week mostly down. Work was work, headlines were headlines, and the back hurt. Also, My lovely spouse celebrated crossed a major, hard-earned milestone (and I am very, very proud), and I learned that a dear friend from my past is no longer with us, which is seriously a bummer. I spent some time with […]

friday random elevenish: “well that sucks” edition

09 May

it’s not been a great week. The return-to-office mandate is still unpleasant, loud, and demoralizing, with too few bathrooms, a broken ice machine, and barely functioning network services. It adds a good hour to my “working” time given the commute, traffic on the interstate, lines at the badge check at the gate, and “differently functional” […]

friday random elevenish: “cube life” edition

02 May

After more than five years of remote work, today I returned to the commuting office life. It was…fine. In the most general of terms, it’s not really *that* much of an inconvenience, though to be honest, it’s kind of a bummer, just because. I likely could have waited until Monday to come in, though I […]

bards, books, beers, bikes and bullsh!t

28 Apr

…and that’s another one in the books.  This year’s Ravencon ended up being a good experience, largely due to the presence of some very good friends I don’t see often enough and a reasonably relaxed vibe when I wasn’t rushing to sit panels, play shows, running equally-busy offspring to off-site commitments, or working around inconveniently […]

promo: ravencon 2025

23 Apr

Once again, it’s time for Ravencon this weekend, April 25 through 27, and once again, I’ll be doing my thing at my “hometown” convention! It’s always a good time, with good friends, great creativity (including music, writing, cosplay, film, art, and anything else you can imagine!), and tons of fun! I’m playing a couple of […]

friday random elevenish: “the work is mysterious and important” edition

18 Apr

There’s everything and nothing going on all at the same time, and I can’t find motivation or focus for more than two or three hours at a time. Sure, I’ve kind of hit the “acceptance” stage of the whole current American experience and it’s constant threats to my livelihood, but the constant load is a […]

friday random elevenish: “bear market” edition

12 Apr

My personal week looked an awful lot like the curve of the stock markets this week. A couple of middling peaks, but mostly trending down and occasionally cratering. Most of the highs involved interactions with media, which…okay. Since my lovely spouse picked up an iPad a couple of weeks ago (she’s swinging her train into […]

friday random elevenish: “free fallin” edition

04 Apr

Some relatively big events over the past seven days. Cory Booker’s historic, record-breaking (don’t* call it a) Filibuster on Tuesday. Departments dropping DeRP 2.0. Imposing tariffs on penguins. markets falling, along with our retirement accounts. And me, on Wednesday, falling and landing flat on my back. Several of these things hit personally, though one in […]

friday random elevenish: “numb to the collapse of the republic…and whiskey” edition

28 Mar

I’m frankly tired of being angry and afraid. The stress of this whole < gestures widely toward this general overall situation > is certainly still there, and festering, but I suspect I’ve just become inured to the constant pressure of all these stressors. It’s not quite numbness, but it’s getting there. I’d like to think […]

friday random elevenish: “unpopular opinions” edition

21 Mar

One more week down, and the work slog continues, in part because Schumer indeed did fold (though it remains to be seen if he’s as capable of 4-D chess as the red hats claim TFG is), and the shutdown was put off, at least until at some point in the summer when the debt ceiling […]

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