LJ friends, your prodigal son has returned. As most of you know, I've been living back at home for nearly a year due to money concerns and such, and as a result I've been sort of dead to the world. The four-hour round trip commute doesn't do much for my desire to drive back to the DC Metro area...but I digress. I miss this LJ, not to mention the ( Read more... )

Good morning, one and all!  I'll be mercifully brief, but I just wanted to keep everyone up to date on some of the things that are putting me in a good mood today.  It's always good to remind myself, as well.  So, what the hell am I smiling at?

-I've been appointed as a contributing editor at Crunchable.  What does this mean?  I'm already ( Read more... )

As you may know, I spent last week getting some good ol' R and R at the family cottage in Northeastern Pennsylvania.  I enjoyed the company of my parents and their friends, an older married couple named Jean and Ron.  They're good people, but Ron in particular is something else.  At the age of 62, he is very much an old curmudgeon: his pop culture ( Read more... )

Hey folks!  I don't plan on blogging all week or anything, but my sister found a way to mooch off of the hotel's wireless connection, so I thought I would check in.  Weather is nice, my flesh is already burning, and breakfast was scrapple and eggs.  In other words, life is good.  As long as I'm here, I might as well pimp my writing: new article on ( Read more... )

Tess and I made it back from the cottage in one piece.  Well, two separate pieces, one each, but never mind.  Some highlights of the trip follow ( Read more... )

Suddenly I really need a vacation. It's just been a blah week.

What's that you say? I do have a vacation already planned for this weekend, and I've taken off tomorrow and Monday?

Hooray!

Yep, I'm headed up to my family's lakeside cottage, outside of Hop Bottom, Pennsylvania. Yes, that's really what it's called; according to Wikipedia, the name ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot lately about how I never really go anywhere out of the ordinary for a real vacation. I've got a job that allows me a lot of opportunity for time off whenever I need it, and I just end up taking a long weekend here or there to visit friends. Which is a marvelous use of my time, but it's not really exotic. If I do go on ( Read more... )

Wahoooooo! Not only am I back from the Ocean, I am back among the functional 'Net world. No more stealing guilty glances at a website or two between phone calls at work, turning my head on a swivel every time someone walks within the vicinity of my cubicle. Okay, so I'll still be doing that, but the important thing is that I don't have to rely ( Read more... )

Hoooooooooooo boy! I have cable internet in my home...sort of. I got the self-install package from Comcast Wednesday night, but I think they sent me a crappy modem. I've only been able to establish an online connection at 7 AM before I leave for work. 7 PM-midnight, or "Kevin Time", as I like to call it, nothing doing. So if I get back to the ( Read more... )