umm….. Nothing huge or earthshattering to report or discuss, but not everything has to be, I guess, right? I mean, not everything reaches the lofty heights of green poop, now does it? Life’s been life. I’m trying not to think too hard about workplace shutdowns in December, and I don’t expect the news media, regardless […]

…at least now I can backburner the furlough stress until December. Which is good, because I need room to worry about potential hurricane-related power outages. Yeah. In the meantime, here’s a little poetry I assembled from random phrases found in the spam comment folder of this here web site, because I do that now and […]

Hi. Welcome to Monday morning. It’s not the best Monday morning, though really, I haven’t had a terribly great Monday morning in a while. I think that’s kind of the white-collar working-stiff bureaucrat default, though, so I’m not worried about that. I am, however, still kind of worried about the shutdown business, even if the […]

So, if you’ve talked to me in the last week (don’t worry, there haven’t been many of you), you might have heard me talk about the potential government shutdown. It’s a pain in the ass, dick-measuring contest fighting over where approximately .0037% of the federal government’s spending goes (and it’s over whether women have access […]

Okay, folks, this has been a really, really long week, mostly because of the involvement of hours and hours of conference calls and powerpoints (seriously – yesterday was like eight hours’ worth). This is my life now, apparently. the good news is that I have short work week next week, and although that break will […]

So, in the last couple of weeks, I took a couple of musical steps outside my comfort zone, and I survived. First, thanks to a certain musical director catching my absent-mindedly warming up my fingers on the guitar one evening, I ended up playing a big fancy improvizational flamenco/surf guitar cadenza during a neat little […]

…because that sounds like fun. Trust me, though, this piece comes with a happy, or at least encouraging ending. In case readers don’t know, after more than a decade adjacent to the industry (working as a functional and process resource supporting development), I took an actual position in an information technology directorate earlier this year. […]

So, after a hell of a week where I’ve been way too much like management, I took a day off of work, because, well, I have the time and I deserve it. Slept in, hung out with the spouse, went out to lunch and did a little shopping. The spouse got it in her head […]

As you’ve likely been made aware through various passive agressive posts here and in social media, or personal comments from me, I spent last week in Oklahoma for my organization’s annual IT Training Symposium. Traditionally, this organization has had it’s conferences in enviable places like Florida (for certain values of “enviable”, speaking personally), though thanks […]

It’s Friday, and it’s long overdue. Sleep has still been fitful all week thanks to all kinds of stressful crap, but you know, I’m dealing. For all the crap being thrown my way, I’m mostly dealing with it to the point where I don’t always *look* like I’m on the edge of cracking to those […]