Up until around 8pm last night, I didn’t know whether I’d be working today or not. That’s really not a nice feeling. Congress did, however, manage to kick the can down the road at least a week or two, so I continue to sit conference calls, review test data, and work out how to make […]

it’s a stretch, but this image will make sense eventually, I promise Well, it’s certainly been a week, technically short as it was. As indicated previously, my lovely spouse and I spent Monday in the car driving east from Indiana; said drive was less pleasant than the drive west; in part, I suppose, do to […]

As I’ll be on the road heading west tomorrow when I’d normally weigh in with this weekly post, I’m tossing it out this morning, and not even delaying it’s posting, because…well, I don’t know why. I guess I never got the hang of…etc. I’ve alluded to this particular adventure in vague terms over the last […]

In any normal year, I’d already be in Atlanta, hauling gear up hotel stairways, dodging Deadpools in the habitrails, and guessing which cast member of Battlestar Galactica I’d end up next to at the urinals. But, as we all know, this isn’t a normal year. Although I’m fully vaccinated, even with the generally good procedures […]

Just a couple of notes of celebration, or something… Note The First: I did my third cycling fifty(-two)-miler of the summer on Sunday. Averaged over 14mph, knocked twenty minutes off of my best time, and did the whole business in under four hours. My ass kind of gave out after about 45 miles, but that’s […]

For the first week of year forty-eight, it could’ve been worse. I got a *ton* of stuff done at work, and finally got the meeting with my boss lined up we’ve been trying to have for more than a week, where we hatched plans to redesign the broken processes of our agency from the ground […]

I got on my bike for the first time in a week yesterday; just a short hop of around eight miles, because I’ve not been feeling particularly great lately. It was also the first non-rainy day in most of a week. If it wasn’t for the rain, which has been kicking up all kinds of […]

The video above is not only objectively the best Katy Perry song, it’s also an adequate descriptor of the week. Outside, it’s regularly breaking 100° and inside, at my work desk at home, I’m wearing a sweatshirt, because my chair sits right on top of the air conditioning vent (which is the closest vent to […]

Ups and downs this week, more than usual. Work was feast or famine, either waiting for things to happen, or being stuck on the phone for 5 straight hours during a Reply-All-Pocalypse. Emotions were a bit of a roller coaster: at different times, I was both my best and my worst self. I got the […]

I’ve mentioned this event in this space before, but this time, I’m including….a poster! This Sunday, I’ll be on the bill at the RavenCon Summer Concert, along with other acts including Mikey Mason, Dirty Metal Lefty, Doctor Shock and the Electrodes, and my former bandmates Dimensional Riffs. It’ll be a safe and (hopefully) beautiful summer […]