Archive for the 'stress' Category

shift in perspective

21 Oct

After working very hard all day Saturday and a good big of Sunday morning, I finalized fifteen audio tracks, corrected some issues with the cover art and uploaded my final files to the duplication service. I should have a review/testing copy of World’s Okayest… in hand by the end of the week. I don’t think […]

playing through the pain

24 Sep

While I didn’t mention this last week, I’ve been struggling with a very quick-onset flu-like bug since the middle of last week. I started feeling an unpleasant tickle in the back of my throat as I was leaving Castleburg on Wednesday night, which, over the course of the 20 minutes-or-so drive home, turned into a […]

friday random elevenish – “financial reminder of your own mortality” edition

20 Sep

When I looked at my electronic pay stub on Wednesday morning for this week’s pay check, I noticed my bottom-line take-home was twenty-five bucks less than it’s been previously. I was concerned for a second, until I saw the notes section, which indicated that I’d moved into a new age category for my life insurance […]

friday random elevenish: “nightmares of the bureaucracy” edition

13 Sep

This week has been probably the most aggravating week in my lengthy career as a public-sector bureaucrat. The sheer amount of stereotypical bureacratic bullshit, passive-aggressive power plays, and examples of the worst impulses of humanity I’ve had to deal with have been somewhat overwhelming, and may have led me to send some more-aggressive-than-is-entirely-professional messages via […]

set up for failure

10 Sep

As previously mentioned, I am fighting a pretty bad case of post-Dragoncon con crud; sinus pressure, aches, pains, exhaustion, probably a fever, all that good stuff. But, there’s entirely too much crap going down at the office for me to take time off to rest, so I’m muddling through, as it is, of course, approaching […]

friday random elevenish: “thursday doesn’t care about you” edition

02 Aug

So, yeah, I spent most of Wednesday with a significant part of my brain thinking it was Thursday. When I came to that realization, believe me, it sucked. Wednesday night was a weird one…I dreamt that both my lovely wife and I were appointed as Supreme Court Justices, though the entire thing took place in […]

laughing in desperation

30 Jul

To think I started off today feeling optimistic about things. After a relatively frustration-free workday yesterday, I had a nice four mile hike along the river after work, had meal of fresh vegetables, and spent some decent time chilling with the cat and watching Veronica Mars before settling in for an actually pretty good night’s […]

friday random elevenish: “bureaucratic avalanche” edition

12 Jul

My life this week has been defined primarily by the never-ending fountain of documents related to the acquisition nightmare I’ve gotten yanked into by the boss. This should be a relatively easy thing, but this particular effort has been kicked back by the review board three times now, and the strategy has been changed just […]

well, that sucked

09 Jul

So, Monday after work (which went late because of a meeting where I once again end up salvaging a failing acquisition), I quickly ran home to grab my lovely spouse’s car to take to the shop to get new tires put on; one of them had been regularly losing pressure, and at her last oil […]

friday random elevenish: “up…and down” edition

21 Jun

It’s been a relatively quiet work week; too quiet, really – I’d really like some news on the status of my projects, honestly, and it’s not really forthcoming. I was stuck at the office on Thursday very late in order to help bail my boss and folks who aren’t as good at acquisition stuff as […]

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