As I type this Isaias is working it’s way up the East Coast, and is likely to drop 4-6 inches of rain all over us here in the center of the Commonwealth, and a bit more on my friends to the East, as well as all the states north and south. Yay. Rain’s been coming […]

So this week…up and down. Could’ve been worse, I guess. Once I got past the monthly review board at work, things settled down nicely, except that the boss went on surprise paternity leave (kid was a few weeks early), and he didn’t read us into a bunch of things. Hoping he drops us some knowledge […]

Odds are, if you’re reading this, you’re sitting in the United States, so what’s going on around us right now, whatever your political stripe, has become somewhat normalized to you, even as abnormal as it seems. Thing is, there are a lot more people outside our borders than there inside them; it’s important, as a […]

Remember, back an eternity ago (but actually only about 48 hours, since this is how the world works now) when I mentioned that the bubble wrap was better than the weeping and irritability? Yeah, that didn’t last long. Wednesday (and most of Thursday as I start writing this missive) were emotionally rough, for no particularly […]

Four day weekend. Not terrible, other than the slightly cloudy feeling I’m likely to have until later this week when I was able to schedule a doctor’s appointment because somewhere between the larger medical group (which ate up my wonderful doctor’s smaller practice last year) and the pharmacy system, there was a hiccup that has […]

If you’re reading this Friday morning (as I expect you probably are), I’m probably in the midst of my next leg of the Capital Quarantine Challenge, and not sitting at my computer after loading up everyone’s inboxes first thing, because it’s the federal bank holiday for Independence Day. My plan as it stands is to […]

I have shamelessly stolen this sentiment from my friend and occasional convention co-panelist, “Doctor By Day, Novelist By Night” Darin Kennedy, though I put it in the context of this hastily created image. It goes without saying that I agree with this sentiment. NZ has excellent, competent leadership, has basically eradicated COVID-19 from their shores […]

The last post about how nothing ever really happens in day-to-day life due to the pandemic isn’t entirely true. Today, I live just a few miles away from one of the symbolic centers of the BLM movement, which is actually pretty damned inspiring, and has, perhaps accidentally, become a piece of art transcending it’s original […]

Weekend wasn’t bad; bit of rain here and there, though we got out to Crazy Rooster on Sunday afternoon for an hour or so; it’s a nice place, will be an *awesome* hang-out and chill sort of place if ‘rona accommodations ever end, and the Late Day Shadow NE IPA is kinda divine. It’s been […]

Music, my friends, has no boundaries; it speaks to all of us. A dope, kickin’ bass line doesn’t discriminate. (shamelessly stolen from my friend Bob Bock)