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This must be a sort of Saturn Return year for our entire ideological group.

Passing the time at Logan, with Amy. For whatever reason, this trip has been preceded by the worst case of aviophobic freakout I've ever experienced. It's been something like a single mid-intensity panic attack, stretched over three days. I can try speculating why this is, but it wouldn't help. I've been talking about it with Amy and that's helped ( Read more... )

The first act was ingenious, wonderful, and perfectly paced. derspatchel has such an affinity for both creating and delivering radio comedy that one is tempted to conclude he was born 70 years too late. The music from Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band was hot, and fit in perfectly as a buffer between the vocal performances. I would have happily sat ( Read more... )

Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers for running the funnest Mystery Hunt I've attended, to Beginners Luck for solving it first, and to my team of Immoral, Illegal & Fattening for being super awesome. There is no finer group of folks I'd rather be sequestered into a classroom for three days with ( Read more... )

The obvious comparison is to being a kid on Christmas eve, but it's not like Christmas worked better if you were well-rested enough to focus for the next 30+ hours on ridiculous feats of mental acumen. At least not at my house.

I couldn't do kung-fu anymore after a full 24 hours, and didn't leave a moment too soon, or late. Now on the couch with a glass of wine that isn't from a ginormous screw-top jug and heating up a (omgwtf)bbq pizza, after which I will take a shower, after which I will procrastinate for a long time before finally returning the car (alla way up by the ( Read more... )

Arrived at Fairfield yesterday. Sometime after I made the Zipcar reservation I became determined to shift my mind into a more graceful posture for this visit, a loose kung-fu pose of good cheer and readiness to casually flip any bad crap over my shoulder and onto the mat behind me. And really, I've been having an okay time! And truth to tell, it ( Read more... )

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(Also I think it's my parents' 55th anniversary. Nobody picked up so I dunno.)

And so we move into my final year in this marketing demographic. (The U.S. Census Bureau will consider me middle-aged next year ( Read more... )

Just finished the one-off job that jtroutman passed over to me. If it doesn't cause the client to catch on fire, I think they'll like it, and I am hoping that it will lead to more work from them. In my delivery letter I noted some recommendations for improvements in their process, and added that I'd be most happy to discuss them further if they'd like. This ( Read more... )