I know it’s cliche by this point, but 2020 has been, and continues to be the best practical case for evidence of time dilation in terms of relative perception in recent memory. Psychologists and physicists will be writing papers on this for decades. Remember Four Season Total Landscaping? That was only three weeks ago. In […]

Thanksgiving weekend was meh; honestly. Given the state of the world, it was just a couple of days off, frankly. We had a decent meal on Thursday; mostly vegetarian stuff (a killer lentil and rice loaf, and some spinach and cheese bread pudding that the family really loved). I didn’t do turkey, but did do […]

Indeed, a week. As briefly teased in earlier dispatches, I’ve spent a large part of the week dealing with petty bureaucrats and their petty power-trips. It has, for the large part, sucked, though after working with some dare-i-say “allies” within the organization, I unleashed a little bit of bureaucratic jujitsu of my own, and have […]

I’m not particularly superstitious, but maybe don’t go camping on Friday the 13th. My mind-clearing getaway trip didn’t quite offer the solace I hoped it would, due to numerous complications. Not saying it was all bad, but all told, very few things went according to plan or as I’d have liked. The first piece, of […]

It’s going to be a little quiet around these parts for a few days. As I’d mentioned a couple of weeks back, I’m going on a bit of an adventure. I’m going just a little bit mad under the current conditions, and really need a change of scenery, and I’ve found a way to do […]

It’s not over. It likey won’t be for several days. Not that those projections that came in last night are official anyway (they never are). Remember, this year is kind of unprecedented, with many more absentee/mail-in ballots due to the pandemic the current occupant hasn’t done anything about. Those votes get counted. It’s not over, […]

If you’ve been putting off casting your ballot, it’s time to get moving on that. Today in America is “Election Day”, although with the way things have been working this year, it’s really more of the Election “Deadline.” We’ve been talking for years in this country about how to make voting easier and more accessible […]

To add some reasonably specific context to my general frustration with the world, I present, for your edification, an actual conversation I had with a work colleauge this morning: Colleaugue: As a side note, it is a little shocking how much touch labor has to be used to get [this simple work thing] out…. Me: […]

I think I might be able to honestly report a reasonably okay long weekend? I didn’t really do anything out of the ordinary, but nonetheless it was a break from the hassle of work. I cooked some decent meals, got a little biking in before the rain, maybe booked a future gig at a local […]

The week’s ending slightly better than it started, I guess; “nothing particularly significant” is better than “total emotional breakdown,” if we’re keeping score. The low point was Tuesday afternoon. I got through the work day well enough, apart from the usual bullshit regarding the ever-shifting office policy and SharePoint gatekeeping. After shutting down for the […]