It’ll be Friday when you read this, at any rate. Oh well – it’s been something of a week; not awful, perhaps, but plagued with a few of the usual frustrations that are going to stick with me a while, plus I think the eject mechanism on my car CD player is starting to flake […]

I really don’t have loads to talk about, but life continues to happen around me, and occasionally, I even get to take part in some of it. For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been rehearsing with the second incarnation of the guitar ensemble I occasionally play with – slightly different, more diverse group this […]

started this playlist on the mp3 player, which didn’t last all that long because the battery crapped out (must’ve gotten turned on while being jostled around in my bag*), so I shifted to Pandora part way through. See if you can guess where: “Your Brain Turns Me On” – Mikey Mason “Heat of the Night” […]

Not an awful week overall. The man hasn’t beaten me this week (though one woman a couple of states away has managed to make herself a pain in my ass). Stuff’s not bothering me so much – perhaps it’s good feelings left over from Ravencon (which you can hear more about at this week’s Pros […]

These convention post-ops to tend to be rather repetitive; I get to hang out with my convention friends, listen to great music, discover new things to play and read, and generally have good time in the world of geeky hobbies and media. This weekend’s RavenCon was not an exception to this pattern. I came into […]

Settling in before starting what I hope will be a quiet workday from home. My calendar, at this moment, is completely clear of meetings, which is, perhaps a first. it’s been a rough week, especially the front half, though I’m convinced myself that I’m not going to let The Man™ (in the sense of that […]

I started “reading” (well, listening to Wil Wheaton performing the text of) Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One this week. I’m only a handful of discs in, but I’m really enjoying it. It’s pretty much pure, condensed nostalgia – aimed pretty much dead center at the culture of my childhood (the pop culture of the 1980s […]

Hrm. It took me nearly five hours to get home from the office this particular Friday afternoon. All told, an appropriate capper for a pretty crappy week. The usual unhappy stuff, plus the whole last minute delay of the furlough notices, a move that was sold as a welcome respite, but really just served to […]

Other than the pope business, the big news in my corner of the internet yesterday was Rob “not the Matchbox 20 guy” Thomas’s Kickstarter to fund a Veronica Mars movie project. That this is even kind of a possibility is great news, because I loved me some Veronica Mars. In spite of it’s occasional flaws*, […]

Pretty damned spot-on pop analysis from the Axis of Awesome: Oh, this is slightly not safe for work.