Behold, I am Slug. Sleep was not in the cards for me last night as I was hanging with kids and grandkid in western MA, where there was a lack of needed air conditioning and a two-year-old with a fondness for kicking me in the ribs. I followed it up with a burrito for dinner that had some sort of personal vendetta with my GI tract that I don't have ( Read more... )

To celebrate the five bucks I just dropped to LJ to get my icons back along with access to the polling function, I'm dusting off the catch-up poll I do every now and again, mostly again. (I actually haven't done this in over a year, but it feels too soon because it's only a page back in my posting history. Ehh, c'est la fromage.) If you have a ( Read more... )

I haven't done this since July, which given how sporadic my posting was last autumn barely pushes that last survey onto page 2, but I'm facing the confluence of boredom, a renewed paid account, and a boatload of worry over everyone here in the bowels of the Unbounded Winter of Crushed Optimism, so if you're reading this, please reply. I want to ( Read more... )

I've been remaining deliberately scarce on LJ for the past few weeks, along with Facebook and other social media, aside from the occasional like-button click or birthday shout-out to my son. I realized I needed some self-care somewhere between the scrambled sleep patterns and the nightly stress hives, so I turned down the input noise to see if it'd ( Read more... )

As part of my hopeful return to the warm bower of LiveJournal, I wanted to return to this poll that I like to run periodically. I'm a tad taken aback, however, because I don't like to overdo it to the point that it appears more than once on the same page of my feed, and yet the last time I ran it was nearly a year ago. Gods, I've been away too long ( Read more... )