It was a long year last week. 2016 is dead and buried; it wouldn't be hard to do better, but I don't expect 2017 to make the effort.
I was going to put a summary of the year here. I'm not up for it. See my previous post for a wrap-up of what I mostly didn't do. I can't ( Read more... )

2016 SUCKED. Right up until the end, and it's planning to stick around for an extra (leap) second just to rub it in. I want to be up at 23:60 to watch it die. Not that I expect 2017 to be any better.
Last year at this time I wrote It's been a harrowing year. [...] What ( Read more... )

I'm taking a "vacation" -- actually a staycation with enough housework and ( Read more... )

So I took the week off from work. I'd originally planned to return from ( Read more... )

It's time for another year's worth of gratitude. On the whole, 2016 has not been a great year -- about the best I can say is that I -- and my family -- lived through it. OK, here we go: This year I'm grateful for...

• My family. All of it -- family of blood, family of choice, Colleen ( Read more... )

Rough week. Even a con, with a concert that came off well, didn't help all that much. My anxiety--or whatever it is, because alexithymia--levels are through the roof, even after cutting back on coffee and Facebook time.
Getting through the concert did reduce my stress quite a bit; that effect ( Read more... )

So here we are at Orycon. For some reason I'd forgotten to register Colleen, so we had to do that at the desk.
Here's my schedule:
1118Sa o Is Open Source Really Open? Salon C (LL1) Sat Nov 19 10:00am - 11:00am Blake Hutchins, Frank Hayes, Mark Niemann-Ross, *me (moderator) o Concert: Steve Savitsky Mt Hood (2) Sat Nov 19 1:00pm ( Read more... )

So, last weekend was Westercon. It was the first we'd been to for a while -- Portland is close enough to drive to in less than 3 hours, so we were able to do it without my having to take any time off.

My concert Saturday evening went ok: Bigger on the Inside, The Stuff that ( Read more... )

I didn't ask for a concert at Westercon this year, because up until about two weeks ago I wasn't sure I'd be able to affort to go. (It's marginal, but it's important enough in terms of keeping in touch that we decided to go anyway.) I also don't read my email very closely if I'm not expecting anything in particular.

So you can ( Read more... )

RainbowCon 1 happened last weekend, and it was wonderful. The guests were Decadent ( Read more... )