Because I'm happy.No special reason, just feeling positive and productive. Getting stuff done. My brain seems to be working rather than just taking up space in my head. I've been getting more energetic, day by day, for the past couple of weeks, and then we got a cool front in and I have been walking around with a satisfied feeling and half a smile ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been almost a year since I posted, again. This may have something to do with coming out of my winter doldrums, I dunno. The sad thing is that I don't have very much to report since last year's post ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been almost a year since I made a real post here. Anyone still about?

I guess this is what happens when you're always busy, but nothing of major import is happening. :-/

Recovering from a week-long trip to Disney World. It was fun in a sort of exhausting way. As a proof of concept for traveling with the kid, it wasn't bad - turns out she has absolutely zero problems with airplanes or sleeping in hotels ( Read more... )

I feel a bit ridiculous talking about it, because pretty much no one else cares, but I have been following the Iditarod pretty closely and I don't really have an outlet for my thoughts ( Read more... )

I got a call from my mom this morning to let me know that her mom passed away last night ( Read more... )

Man, it's strange reading everyone's New Year's posts scattered across the various portals of the Net. Looking back, looking forward, reviews, regrets, plans, resolutions ( Read more... )

It seems very random to be posting anything here these days. Everybody is on Facebook now. I need to do a braindump, though, and FB has posting limits ( Read more... )

It's very weird when you come face-to-face with the person other people think you are.

I'm trying to write an article about questionable words that don't actually exist but are regularly used by supposed professionals - like "irregardless," which is really the best example I can come up with at present ( Read more... )