-
This could have gone much worse than it did.
On Sunday afternoon, after a couple of weeks of working nearly 60 hours due to severe understaffing, I made a small mistake with potentially major consequences for a large portion of our customers. I realized the error immediately, contacted the owner, and we figured out how to correct it. Still, the mistake had been obvious to many (I'd already ( Read more... ) -
Travels Anti-Spinward
OH GOD. Eastward transatlantic travel. I knew it messes me up, but I forgot how much. Well: I suppose I'll see the full extent of that later today.
Travelling against the sun. It's a killer. I remember the first time I visited the UK, leaving in the Chicago afternoon and arriving in the London morning. Except: Due to the direction of travel, ( Read more... ) -
Reading List 2012 (Part 1)
I've always wanted to keep track of my reading stats for a given year, but never have before. That changes now, though - including my linked reviews!
Check 'em out:
January
Fiction:- Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
- Conan the Barbarian: Queen of the Black Coast, by Robert E. Howard
- Comic-Con Strikes Again!, by Douglas Wolk
February
Fiction:- ( Read more... )
-
Eulogy for my Sister.
Delivered at Kisselburg-Wauconda Funeral Home, January 18 2011.
How can one family bear such tragedy ( Read more... ) -
Review: Maximum Fantastic Four
"When I saw each frame as a unit I remembered something from my youth: as a young person I could completely concentrate on each frame of the comic book. I could see every line and gesture as if it were part of a sole painting hanging in the center of a blank wall. This, I thought, might be what separates me from my younger self. Now I look at ( Read more... ) -
Journals & Writing
The stereotype for a blog (and specifically a LiveJournal) is the post that shows up every 8-10 months, lamenting that they haven't written in ages and oh how embarrassing that is. And then nothing else for another 8-10 months.
As I do not enjoy being a stereotype, I made sure to get a couple of actual entries in before committing the sin of ( Read more... ) -
New Friends and New TV
Regarding my last entry, Ryvre said it made her brain explode because it drives her nuts when people say there's no good television being made any more - when the medium is vastly superior to where it was at, say, 10-15 years ago. I agree, actually, and clarified that I wasn't saying that; what I meant to get across was that in the last year or ( Read more... ) -
Television as Art: The Steepening Line
This past Spring - I'd guess March or April, looking back at the calendar - I was going to write a journal entry titled "The Continuing Lessons of Time". I never did, of course, precisely because of those selfsame lessons; i.e., when you're so overcommitted and so overextended that you've lost all your free time for a significant and lasting ( Read more... ) -
Visiting London: A Personal Guide
So, yesterday Peter left for London, where he'll be for the next two weeks. As he's not visited before, he asked for recommendations on where he should go and what he should see.
Well, sure. Why not ask me to talk about one of my favorite things ever ( Read more... )
