Not alot going on. Work is winding down from the summer, which means less travel and more "sit on the office and deal with paperwork" time. This excites me much like the prospect of a new color Power Ranger might intrigue a blind man. Dealing with bureaucracy is something I have been cursed to excel at, making me a de facto pencil pusher here in ( Read more... )

Some shit I just want to throw out of my head -

Viddy's birthday party last night. We hosted a surprise one for her, and it went off pretty well. Was nice having a bunch of people over to just relax and piss away the time. It becomes very hard to just sit back and ... not do anything particular. The reminder that I could actually still do that ( Read more... )

It's been hard as hell to write anything for the past few weeks. I wish I knew why. I've been trying to hunt and peck out different bits of the book that I've been working on, rather than just doing it in a linear fashion. But when I sit down now I just feel like a waterhose being squeezed for nothing. Did you ever get that feeling in the back of ( Read more... )

So last week on Wednesday I flew out to Wichita Falls early in the morning to rent a car, do some work out in Vernon, drive back, and then fly back to Austin all in the same day. But because Wichita Falls completely hates me, I get back to the airport in the middle of nowhere and it turns out all of North Texas was grounded due to some freakishly ( Read more... )

You know, I'm not trying for the martyr thing here, but every now and again I just wanna rub my temples and ask "don't you fuckers get it?" I don't wake up in the morning and say to myself, "Self, this will be a fantastic day to be an asshole to everyone you talk to today. For no reason at all. Hopefully, you will have a chance to jump all up and ( Read more... )

Saturday morning I had to get up early to do a thing down at the Palmer Center that got dropped on me last minute. I don't mind this sort of thing overall, but the weather here in Austin has been that oppressive hot humidity that almost feels like you're being blasted with a low level of steam all day. Another of the volunteers there remarked, ( Read more... )

I was in El Paso Thursday and Friday of this week. Tomorrow, Monday, I leave for New Waverly (north of Houston), then make a trip in a sort-of-circle through Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, then Austin that will have me home on Friday. I don't really mind the travel, by itself. Sitting down and looking at the same shit all day is what bothers me. The ( Read more... )

Went with Nikki to two karoke bars last night. Was having a pretty good time just sitting back and laughing at and/or being impressed by the singers until at the second place, some guy with a fixation for Mighty Mighty Bosstones and a girl singing Dennis Leary's "Asshole" managed to get me to uh... participate ( Read more... )

"... no solution, strong undertow ( Read more... )

Austin was pretty cool. The trip back and forth, however... let's just say thar 13 hours in a cramped room with anyone will start to tickle your angerbellum. Pretty sure that if I had to drive that long with even Mother Terry I would have had to end the homicide statement with "... I hated that sanctimonious ho." We stayed with Nikki in the suburb ( Read more... )