2014 was going to be the year I finally started a) finishing writing projects, instead of just falling out of love with them and consigning them to electronic purgatory, and b) actually sharing a few things. And, yay! I think I did well on both counts, for which, in addition to patting my own back, I owe huge thank yous to the TGS comm for being ( Read more... )

( In which laptops meet their end, adulthood is not quite as advertised and there is much that is good to eat… )

Work may be best attempted on drugsI’m thinking of changing my job title to professional Cat Herder and Tilter at Windmills. Don’t think the bosses will go for it though. Part of my job is corralling incredibly creative, free spirited technophobes and teaching them to use our company’s technology. On the up side, I am dealing with absolutely lovely ( Read more... )

Work is, in fact, a four letter word.I am about to travel 450+ miles round trip in one day (again), through not-quite Steinbeck country, to spend four hours trying to solve computer program woes for the enthusiastic but clueless. On the one hand, if we can eliminate the user errors, this is actually a really cool project that I am mostly enjoying ( Read more... )

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I went to work with a nasty migraine today - because, let’s face it, most days you just don’t have a choice - for a big project meeting and to meet a tight deadline on another project. Yup, it was a putting the FU in fun kind of a day ( Read more... )

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WPA era posters and brilliantly trashy old school pulp geek out, and I am head over heels for the end result! The posters were a birthday surprise from my husband and, as the subject line says, I felt they just had to be shared:


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It’s raining. Has been off and on all afternoon and evening. And it’s glorious ( Read more... )

I’ll admit that my personality leans a lot more toward the cynical side of things than the bright and sunny. A lot, a lot more. I tend to think of this as being practical rather than anything negative and I suppose that speaks volumes. But I don’t usually think that the Universe is just plain out to get me. Not usually. This week and change however ( Read more... )