• Lord of All He Surveys: I am now the master and creator of a single, freakishly large shiitake mushroom that I have grown from sawdust with my own two hands! (Next time around, I hope to refine my technique to the point where I can have, like, more than one mushroom at a time. Are there no boundries to my ambition?). Actually, I've read that the ( Read more... )

• As of around 3:30pm today, three people close to me have pointed out that they were in closer contact with me, heard from me more frequently, and that I responded to emails more promptly when I was living in a landcrete hut in a village on African Island 1,000 kms out into the Atlantic ocean.
  
  Required disclaimer: Anna has instructed me to ( Read more... )

As I write this there is a grimy, bulging, ugly fungus looking up a me from the floor of my office ( Read more... )

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Lest anyone think I'm neglecting my friends, I assure you that my increasingly infrequent updates and newfound tendency to inform my friends about developments of my life are done out of love, yup, out out of love, or benign neglect, or something like that but otherwise benign ( Read more... )

Congrats to temperedpassion and her new husband ( Read more... )

Bad Event Tonight....well, not bad per se, but the vibe was off. I didn't get to see my team perform to their usual standard is all...our work is still far far fay and beyond better than we're contractually expected to be doing, and we performed better than we did last month or the month before...just fell a bit shy of our own internal goals is all ( Read more... )

Since returning to the US I've spent ( Read more... )

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I've been informed by the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas that I have been wronged by my cellphone carrier. Yes, Sprint PCS's heartless perfidy has finally been brought to an end, and I'm to be compensated with a $3.40 Pre-Paid Long Distance phone cardfor the suffering they've caused me. I feel vindicated.

Maybe I'll use the phone card ( Read more... )