Sunday: 3 hours of packing. 1 hour of back-and-forth. 11 hours of driving (5 hours of music, 6 hours of radio plays.) 3 hours of reading. Monday: 9 hours actually in the office. 7.5 hours of meetings.I normally have several hours a day of tele-meetings. Attending a meeting is much less onerous when it can be done with continuous partial… Read more →
Category: Storytime
Saturday Night Characters 1: The Cleaver Sleeve
When asked about my home town, I usually reply with one of two quips. Either “it’s a great place to be from” or “it may be smallish, but it has a high character ratio”. That second line which inevitably leads into discussions of the various people that are “real characters” that everyone in the conversation has known, or heard of.… Read more →
It Might Surprise You
And now, for a nice long weekend diversion, a selection of songs with a common characteristic: people seem to be surprised that I really like them. First up we have Dino. This might surprise people who know me a bit, since I’m really not a lounge type of cat. It might surprise people who know me better even more, since… Read more →
Lab Upgrade
No normal blogging today, since I was mostly busy with family stuff. For cynical Good Friday stuff, hit the search bar and look for “Good Friday” or “Eostre”, and you can read last year’s stuff. The other thing keeping me busy was an upgrade to “the lab”, also known as “my office”, or “the library” depending on how I feel.… Read more →
I am a child
So we’ve pretty much established that I’m 35, but I’ve got to tell you, I’m basically still a child. When I see something like the page of “revenge” items at Spymall, I just laugh like an evil ten-year old, and spend time coming up with ill-advised scenarios in which I could use that stuff. (And I do mean ill-advised–I should… Read more →
They come with bragging rights
I see Collen Doran has made a couple of posts recently about some pieces of her art that I now own. Not only do I get to brag about owning the pieces, I think this formally connects me to the Swordspoint universe in some nebulous way. Read more →
Halfway to Seventy
I have now been 35 for 9 minutes. So far, it feels the same as 34. Read more →
Frii Time
Not a ton of time for blogging tonight, due to the little birthday presentTechnically not until next Monday. I bought for myself: a Wii with some accessories and a couple of games. This is the first console I’ve ever owned. From childhood, when I visited friends to play Atari or Intellivision (I did eventually get a Vic 20, which was… Read more →
Gone Drinking
Due to important fund–raising activities and all-you-can-drink craft beer, there will be no blogging today. (Actually, I’m sick and driving, so there won’t be that much drinking, but I will still put in an appearance, raise the flag, and put some money towards a good cause.) Read more →
I have seen the Sky Wolf eat the moon…
…and I have two thoughts: 1) Damn, this science shit is cool. I can see the Sky Wolf eat the moon and know exactly what’s really going down. Yay for science! 2) Is it just me, or does eclipse night seem somehow darker than new moon night? That makes no sense, and is thus spooky. Of course, I live in… Read more →
Musings In Advance
When I turned 20, I was one of the youngest of my group of friends. I had watched them all make a big deal out of it, and I laughed. 20 was no problem. When i turned 30, I was one of the youngest of my group of friends., although I had made a number of friends who were substantially… Read more →
No Practical Value
You know what I want, that is ridiculously expensive, and that I can in no way practically justify, but which I still have a serious hankering for? A sword cane. At least twice a week for the last couple of months, I’ve spent some time looking at the photos at the Burger Knives sword cane pages–especially the titanium “Stilletto” model.… Read more →
I Live (Kinda)
(This is a bit journal-ish. Skip ahead if that kind of stuff doesn’t interest you.) You know, the last time I can back from Australia, I was hungover and carrying the Aussie death flu bug, and I was wiped out for several weeks. This time I seem to have been wiped out first, and then picked up an illness. I… Read more →
Ambivalence
On the one hand, I am really looking forward to being home. On the other hand I am really not looking forward to the process of getting home. My flight leaves Melbourne in two hours, then it’s 7 hours to Singapore, a 2 hour wait, then 14 and a half hours to London, then a 6 hour wait, then 7… Read more →
So far, so good
So, I did manage to travel half-way around the world between Friday and Sunday, popping in on London and Honk Kong before settling down in Melbourne. My days have been pretty work-focused so far: Monday I essentially worked all day, returned to the hotel ate dinner, and was asleep before 9. Yesterday (Tuesday) I worked all day, then went down… Read more →
