I am traveling, traveling, unhappy, unraveling....

Not wanting to think about anything dealing with reality I find solace in binge-watching Parenthood and Grimm and focusing on The Next Thing Only. Obsessive focus on What Needs Done to the point that since I forgot my B5 DVDs (the next two discs of S1 carefully laid out and not packed) I bought TKO ( Read more... )

I've been awake since 2 am, and it looks like I'm up for the day. Tomorrow should be a light work day; a teleconference at 2 pm which I'll need to research for ahead of time. Also some email to send/respond to. I was so busy yesterday I worked through half my allotment of hours for the week.

Spent most of the last two days staining and sealing the ( Read more... )

The fireworks are exploding outside. R and I are drinking wine and watching a documentary on Antarctica. #1 son is off with his friends to a fireworks display. #2 is explaining video games to me. Again. You'd think I'd be an expert by now.

No news on the full time job front. But I must confess, I kind of like this consulting gig. Of course I haven't ( Read more... )

 
Most of my current online reading has been articles and commentary related to Indiana's passage of their state-specific RFRA and the related fallout and the Hugo Award/Sad Puppy slate controversy. Expectations of other people's reactions and shock!surprise! when it is not what you thought it would be.

Most of my inward thought has been regarding ( Read more... )

I am almost over my post-election news ban. I prefer to let the bad news trickle in rather than rush over me like a torrent. Though I'm a band-aid ripper rather than a peeler. I guess that analogy won't work here. In any case we're in for the full Chinese curse the next two years ('may you live in interesting times...') It probably won't make any ( Read more... )

When I was a little girl I had a friend named Kathy. Kathy lived in a big white house with a neat green yard. She went to the big stone church on the other side of the larger town for which our little town was a bedroom community. I was on-and-off religious as a child and particularly as a teen. I got saved I don't know how many times...it never ( Read more... )

What have I been up to ( Read more... )

Five wishes make a post ( Read more... )