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friday random elevenish: “nevermooring” edition

29 Apr

Been another week. Although I started strong with a fifty-miler on Sunday and a few smaller rides later on, I spent a lot of the week struggling through allergies and aches associated with some sort of bug the kid brought home from school. I’m largely past it, I think, but it wasn’t ideal; I was […]

friday random elevenish: “in my brain it’s 1986” edition

21 Apr

It’s been pretty dull the last couple of weeks, if I’m being totally honest. It’s work, bike, eat, sleep, repeat…over and over. I really need some novelty. However, lacking anything novel, on Thursday afternoon, after spending way too many hours on meetings with briefings heavy on references to the U.S. Code and various federal policy, […]

friday random elevenish: “feeling this duck” edition

15 Apr

Y’know, I really can’t remember a week where I was so exhausted both physically and mentally. Once again, work had me earning my raise with some long days and excessive mental processing, and given the gorgeous weather we’ve had around these parts this week, I rode off the mental by putting over 70 miles (so […]

friday random elevenish: “you don’t wanna know” edition

08 Apr

Long week where I didn’t get nearly as much done as I’d wanted to, due to many factors, including spring break absences at work, thunderstorm and tornado warnings, and some biological events you really don’t want the details of, but kept me within spitting distance of a restroom most of the week. Ew. Got a […]

friday random elevenish: “fool me once…” edition

01 Apr

It was a week. Not much more, not much less. I honestly don’t remember much of it…between work, exercise, eating something or other, getting this tune stuck in my head thanks to the ice skating class across the way, the entertainment highlight that was Moon Knight, struggling with the dense text of the novel I’m […]

friday random elevenish: “positivity adjacent” edition

25 Mar

As per usual, these four day weeks are always busier than the usual five day package. Just seems like all the meetings and briefings and problems rear their heads at the office, along with more-intense-than-usual drama elsewhere. If the world cooperates, I’ll likely knock off a little early, though the world hasn’t cooperated so far, […]

thursday random elevenish: “rainy days and…” edition

17 Mar

As mentioned previously, this weekend is Marscon, and given that, I’m doing my usual Friday post on Thursday in order to get it out of the way, because I’ll have things to do tomorrow; even if I did take a long weekend, which I damned well deserved. Definitely deserved it because this has been one […]

friday random elevenish: “budget drills” edition

11 Mar

Not a whole lot of note to report regarding the week; it just sort of was. Couple of things of note, however… Woke up this morning to the encouraging headline that both houses of Congress have passed the omnibus spending bill six months into the fiscal year, so we won’t have to deal with continuing […]

friday random elevenish: “the first sentence of ‘a tale of two cities'” edition

04 Mar

Let’s start the weekend off with a literary reference, huh? The past week was, to paraphrase Dickens, the best and worst of times. On the good side, I made a whole lot of progress on projects at work, and after more than a year in, the way my work group is organized is finally starting […]

friday random elevenish: “punch” edition

25 Feb

One highlight of this week’s adventures in mid-Atlantic suburban pandemic life is captured above. Thanks to a

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