The vacation was what we needed. Downtime, lots of reading (finished two books, though not the Grant biography I’ve been “reading” for three years now; I’m up to his run for President). The weather looked like it was going to be rainy the whole time, so a lot of people bailed on the town, but then we had a glorious, sunny Memorial day, so the ( Read more... )

The out-of-office message is set, and the work laptop is powered down. Out for a little over a week as of this evening, for our annual anniversary trip to the Virginia part of the Eastern Shore ( Read more... )

Doing a two-week squat mobilization challenge with the Ready State, and I'm actually keeping up with it this time. It helps that a bunch of the early stuff has been things I already do on a daily basis now (27 squats, hip warm up, couch stretch). My squat technique isn't bad, but we can always improve, no ( Read more... )

Been plowing through the Wheel of Time book series - up to book four now. I had the first three in paperback format, but at some point in 2018 (?) I lost the first one on a plane, and gave up on restarting it until the TV series came out. I enjoyed the TV series, I get why they made the changes they did, and I look forward to the next season. But I ( Read more... )

I decided to start reading Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, finally. It's been one of those, I think I would really like this things, but just never made the plunge. Bought the first book, The Colour of Magic, and right from the prologue knew these were right up my alley. In describing the general cosmology of the Discworld (a disk balanced on ( Read more... )

'Twas a relatively busy week at work. Year end audit stuff to do, a big document to give a thorough looking through, and various little things that popped up. The big document had my least favorite thing - outdated (and sometimes incorrect) references. Long story short, unless they clearly say otherwise general provisions in appropriations acts are ( Read more... )

I know I just spoke with the solar guy two days ago, and the contractor yesterday, and emailed the building manager yesterday, and it's the weekend, but I totally want all of it done and over with yesterday, too. Which is completely unrealistic, and I know that, but getting the work done and done is very much at the forefront of ye olde braine, so ( Read more... )