It's Holy Saturday. The final day of the Triduum and Holy Week. The Lenten season ends for me when I go to Easter Vigil Mass tonight at 8:30pm ( Read more... )

I started counting the days I've been sheltering-in-place from CoVid-19, picking the day I first started working from home as "Day 1". Taking a look at the calendar to remind myself of the exact date, it was March 13th ( Read more... )

Yes?

Very yes?

Ok, cool.

1) On my way up 101 North, somewhere between McKinleyville and Klamath, there was a low point between two hills where all the hail from Wednesday's storm was collecting. It took me too long to realize I was driving on ice and lost control of my car ( Read more... )

I'm sick. Nothing major, just a sore throat with a heavy cough, but anything that makes it harder to breathe is 'too-sick' to do anything exciting. I was invited to an Ingress build today: Bailing on that. There's a potluck for Harish (freshly back from India) at HQ tonight: Probably bailing on that, too ( Read more... )

• The Job: Things at work are going great. They really appreciate me there and I really feel like I'm doing a good job. We have issues, like every workplace does, but I honestly don't think I've been involved with something with so much potential before.
  
  My only concern? Hiring. We're growing like nobody's business right now, new customers all the ( Read more... )

I have accepted the job offer. As of 4/14/14, two years and 10 days after my layoff, I will be employed as a Release Engineer once again. (At almost twice the pay rate as I was making at my old job ( Read more... )

And I have now, officially, been unemployed for two years.

Yup...

Still no word from my insurance agent, despite my many voicemails, but otherwise: yesterday went off without a hitch. Picked-up Michelle at the airport, faced a bit of traffic but arrived just as she got her bags and ready to go. Hit-up my dental hygienist for my mini-checkup. My tiny gum infection/inflammation issue (read: there was food stuck in ( Read more... )

Nothing terrible happened today, at least: not to me. I spent a few hours recording in my closet for a new podcast, so I guess the worst thing I was subjected to was "Way too much heat and sweating". It was 85 outside, 94 inside when I started. In retrospect, I chose a terrible day to shut all the windows, turn off all the fans, cover my closet in ( Read more... )