Restaurant/eatery websites, or any commercial premises website for that matter, which doesn't have any information on what time it closes other than "late ( Read more... )

Nothing quite like spending a screwdriver-wielding day up to my elbows in printer guts and diagnostics to give a sense of accomplishment. There's something wonderfully clarifying about being able to simply junk a whole pile of oversized IT hardware in order to help clear the decks, mentally, metaphorically, and literally ( Read more... )

Working on Saturday isn't so bad. It's even something of a novelty if your background has been largely in government service positions ( Read more... )

Some of this is universal. A lot of it, however, is simply that the way things are done at the current workplace is massively incompatible with my own psychological preferences ( Read more... )

It seems the current workplace is a flaming straitjacket full of fighting fish-licences.

There is just so much that needs fixing it's not funny.

This year's stress attack in five, four, three...

( Stop making me mist up. )

When an internet-only multi-author fictional universe has events impressive enough in scope to make me consider writing songs about them, that's practically normal ( Read more... )

Lately, sleep's been... not elusive, precisely. Perhaps 'mistimed' would be a better word. While I'm usually getting eight to twelve hours per nap, the scheduling of those hours has been rather more random than expected ( Read more... )

Advance screening (for here) today. Caught it despite being 20 minutes late due to unexpected outbreak of city-to-surf run blocking off nearly every route I tried, and trapping me either in dead-end traffic jams or mazes of twisty little streets ( Read more... )

Went along to a product brainstorming workshop where three projects - one of them mine - were taken apart and reconstructed by half a dozen brains operating at once. And given that most of them were either engineers or had a severe engineering bent, the amount of data being generated, calibrated, refined, compared, reworked and cohered per minute ( Read more... )