The winter looks set to be a quiet one for me. This fall has been so busy as I have been very consciously making greater efforts to be socially active here in the city, with some success. I've been going to movies and shows, and taking a night out for beers at least once every two weeks. I've been doing things like going hiking again, for the ( Read more... )

I'm going overboard on Thanksgiving prep, and I hadn't put my finger on why until someone pointed it out to me with clarity today ( Read more... )

I am a stumbling fool in agony. And it's a good thing ( Read more... )

The Flying Spaghetti Monster only knows why, but I am the flavor of the month with younguns right now ( Read more... )

January. It always takes me a few days to get my head around the concept of this month ( Read more... )

Some of us celebrate it, some of us don't. Some celebrate different things today ( Read more... )

My eldest brother is an odd duck, someone I have never been able to get a grasp on. This may be in part due to our age difference - he is 14 years older than me. But it is also due to the man that he is. I suspect a fair degree of neurological difference, something that might be classified somewhere along the autism spectrum but with a very high ( Read more... )

End of year, schmend of year. I take one damn day off in addition to the Christmas holiday and come back to what looks like the afterbirth of a humpback whale in my office. Literally, mess as far as the eye can see and a stack of panicked emails from people running about with their hair on fire as the dread DECEMBER 31 approaches ( Read more... )

Is anybody out there ( Read more... )

I am remiss in posting in this here old journal thingy of late, and for that I apologize. Things have been so busy at work that I forget to post what I have written, and by the time I remember I just say, "Aw, heck, write something new tomorrow ( Read more... )