For what will be my fifth year running, I’ll be once again participating in February Album Writing Month, a semi-organized exercise in creativity, taking on the challenge of writing 14 songs in 28 days. In past years, I’ve always hit at least fourteen tunes, with usually at least a few winners – last year, I […]

Because I don’t have enough going on in my life these days, I managed to get some of my work published in a literary anthology that was released for sale yesterday. A friend from my youth who published a wonderful first novel earlier this year (for which I was privileged to serve as a beta […]

Indeed, it was a little quiet in this space the last few days. Why? Because I decided to take the Veteran’s Day holiday on Thursday and stretch it into a long weekend, because I could, and I needed a short break. That short break included spending quite a lot of time away from the computer. […]

I’m definitely in a rut. Struggling to keep the momentum going. Another six-month wall. Work. Bike. Dinner. Sleep. Repeat. I wish I could get excited about, well, anything. I read the headlines and wallow further; my tiny bit of optimism that the current chaos is going to be followed by progress (as is the pattern […]

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 […]

So, didn’t love this week at all, apart from a couple of very brief bursts of seratonin. For the most part, thanks to allergies, that muscle pull from last week, garbage weather, long work days, and unexpected adventures in busted ignition switches, tow trucks, and navigating warranty conditions, I spent a lot of the week […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The work week itself has been exceedingly dull. Other than chasing around one of the data trading partners’ sending of a bunch of duplicate transactions and checking on the status of the few remaining FY21 requirement acquisitions, there’s not been a lot, because, as I said, my pile is largely worked through, and everyone else […]