A fun day hanging out with the Sicilian. I had too many expresso martinis though. I am not in any way drunk, it is actually all the sugar in the drinks that has made me sick. The less sugar I ingest on a daily basis, the more ill I feel and the more my body seemingly rejects sugary things when I do ingest them. I foresee a rough night of sleep ( Read more... )

The party last night was so-so. Had the host's brother and his wife not been there, we may have just been sitting in a corner talking to each other. She had two "crews" of people there besides us (the Sparrow/I and her brother/wife) because several other people cancelled that we did know. The first were her current coworkers of which there were ( Read more... )

It was an uneventful Halloween. Doubly so because I did not get a single call or email from work, which seems unprecedented ( Read more... )

It's Halloween and we're both off with no particular plans. The day itself used to be the main event when I was a kid. Now it seems like you spend the whole month of October doing "Halloween things" and come the 31st, you're kinda ready to just move on ( Read more... )

Saturday night we watched 2010's 'The Wolfman ( Read more... )

I'm stuck feeling like there's just never enough time for anything and it is very frustrating. It's also wrapped up in these, what I can only call, "midlife crisis" feelings, like beyond there not being any time for the things that have to be done out of obligation, there's not enough time to do anything worthwhile just for the fun of it ( Read more... )

Last night I happened upon this YouTube channel where this guy made "ambiance" videos (among other content) using the incidental, background music from the original Scooby-Doo TV shows. I found something immensely enjoyable and almost calming about listening to it. The music pieces themselves are not long, but the guy looped them over and over so ( Read more... )

This week has just been brutal. My inbox has been blowing up left and right with emails from all these people wanting something or another from me. People responding to emails I sent days ago. I had a conference call with this guy from the company who bought the Meat Packer talking about VPN tunnels and their whole software upgrade (I am just going ( Read more... )

I think my (and possibly many people's) enjoyment of the Halloween season is all wrapped up in nostalgia. It's a time we all have fond memories of as children. Moments, sights and sounds, events and emotions experienced during critical and formative years of life. A kind of fun that, at the time for me, did not exist at any other time of year ( Read more... )

Yesterday wasn't as productive as I'd hoped for, but stuff got done ( Read more... )