08 Mar
I was, on the whole, actually pretty happy with the weekend, even if I didn’t quite hit a couple of interesting milestones. As if I don’t have enough deadlines and due dates thanks to my career as a public sector bureaucrat, I find myself forever setting other arbitrary lines to cross in my non-work life […]
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02 Mar
So, my little “time away from work” was, by definition, “time away from work”, as I didn’t log into work on either Friday or Monday. Doesn’t mean that work issues weren’t living rent-free in my brain for at least three of the four days. Damn. I can’t catch a break, even when I schedule one. […]
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25 Feb
I was hoping this was going to be a better week than the last, really I was. It rather wasn’t, especially Wednesday. A couple of weeks back, I misread a couple of cells on a spreadsheet cost estimate, leading to me entering the wrong number in another cell of another spreadsheet for a data call. […]
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18 Feb
Another weekend, another ice storm in the forecast. Joy. Looking at the most recent maps, I’m hopeful that it won’t be terrible in this corner of the world, I’m also kind of bracing for the worst…again. Sure, we were only out 36 hours last weekend, though when reviewing history, two weeks out is not an […]
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16 Feb
Well, this weekend was fun. The big 2021 ice storm started doing it’s thing around here on Friday morning, icing up the roads, the trees, the cars, the everything. None of us left the house Friday or Saturday, because the driveway was an ice rink, and we’re still on ‘Rona time anyway. We watched movies, […]
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25 Jan
So, it’s Monday again… The weekend, as predicted and hoped for, was largely uneventful. A little shopping, some reading, some decent shepherd’s pie that I’ll be eating the rest of the week, lots of laundry, a bit of television, a bit of reading, and a few Pokemon Go raids from my couch thanks to friends […]
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22 Jan
After writing a whole bunch of paragraphs about how I’m seriously struggling with what I suspect is the second occurrence of the
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19 Jan
Given current circumstances, as mentioned previously, Marscon didn’t happen as scheduled in person in Williamsburg this year, but a bunch of regulars stepped up to help create a virtual experience for those of us missing our chosen family of misfits. In the form of a bunch of online meetups, streaming video, and all the other […]
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03 Dec
…other than the fact that I feel like these guys are always right around the corner lately. Things are going to get better. Kind of have to.
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02 Dec
Want to know how to make Chuck figuratively jump through all kinds of bureaucratic hoops and prepare reams of multi-pronged backup documentation for weeks, and eventually forcing a Thunderdome-style brawl between different branches of the financial department to simply get an answer, any answer, so that a critical organizational program gets the support it needs? […]
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