The new job is interesting in the same way that a game of Nomic is interesting. I'm buried three levels deep in the contract/subcontract game, and where the boundaries are seems to be the primary preoccupation. The word "policy" came up three separate times during a technical conference call I was just on, I was instructed to call someone in ( Read more... )

Almost entirely over the cold now, except for the annoying, occasional cough. Henry Rollins verbally kicked ass as always, and fafou is officially the best person in the world for taking me there (and munching at the Paper Moon after). Things are getting very innerestin' with Jesse Johnson's campaign for President - further details forthcoming, but ( Read more... )

I've been a bit down lately. You know, not having a job, or realizing that this is now my job, which is a bit of a nasty shock...plus a few other things that I've had to deal with in terms of some close relationships - and the fact that I haven't been sleeping well lately (Kid-2 has a painful ear infection, and I was up a great deal of time last ( Read more... )

I just saw word on my flist that goudagirl died last night, from cardiac arrest. Her husband made the last post in her journal ( Read more... )

goudagirl posted that interview meme, and I went right to the bait. I'm a sucker for those things...which, as they are, are pretty good for memes. At least we have a chance to open up about ourselves a little and control the responses a bit better, instead of finding out that if I was a Pokémon, I'd be Squirtle, or something ( Read more... )

I am still a bit in shock, here. I had a party, an amazing one. And no, it wasn't my idea.

efbq got a bunch of folks together at her mother's house for a surprise birthday party. For me ( Read more... )

Food this good has to be bad for me. I just picked up lunch at Cluck-U Chicken, one of the best named restaurants EVAR, and yet another reason why Maryland is culturally superior to everywhere else in the entire universe (yes, they have them in New Joisey, too, but we have many more and we have the chicken, so bite me). Chicken breasts with beans ( Read more... )

I had these lying around unsent and just rediscovered them, so...

( the first one )

...but after this many years of marriage, I figure you're stuck with me. :-)

Happy Anniversary, love.

Does anyone remember the movie Wizards? It was a Ralph Bakshi film; not that great, but not that bad, either. There's a bit in the film where Elinor, the fairy, betrays Avatar, the cute, grumbling curmudgeon wizard from Vaughn Bodé's Cheech Wizard. Avatar spends a good half hour of the film after that wandering around, muttering, depressed, and ( Read more... )