Work today was a strange mix of:
1. incompetent people;
2. stupid people;
3. people expecting me to work miracles;
4. people doubting the veracity of my miracles, post-working.

Ok, I'm not sure what "veracity" actually means, but it seems good in that sentence.

Survived work... tomorrow is Friday. One day at a time.

I just spent over two hours watering the lawn, which has been ignored while I've been out of town since Thursday.... position sprinkler, run water for 20 minutes... repeat four times in the back yard, four times in the front yard, to get our little sprinkler to cover the whole yard.

As soon as I'm finally done with all that... the rain starts.

What is it with people dying? People I know, people I don't; famous people, normal people.... keep dropping like flies. I fear for my grandmothers, who are 90 and almost-78, neither in great health.

Wow, I did not realize how many places I'd been... though to be fair, many of them I just drove through without really spending much time.


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The Right Honorable Lord Pendar the Bard, OSO, CSH, CAH, CRT, CSA, Musimon Herald Extraordinary, known also as Pendar Munro, died suddenly and unexpectedly this morning at his home of an apparent heart attack. He taught me heraldry, preceded me as White Stag Principal Herald of the Outlands, and was as true and faithful a friend as anyone could ( Read more... )

Hrmph... I just got declined for one of the two aforementioned teaching gigs. They're going "a different direction." (What, you don't want a doubly-certified coder with 10 years of experience to teach coding? Buh?)

Well, still got some irons in the fire, and some more pending on which I can move forward.

You Are Flannel Pajamas
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I was laid off around the first of March from both of my jobs. One project we knew was going to finish; the other stopped abruptly when the client experienced budget cuts ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago I finished reading My Lobotomy, a memoir by Howard Dully, who was given a transorbital lobotomy (unnecessarily, in my view, and his too) at age 12 in 1960 by the aforementioned Dr. Walter Freeman. By this point, nearing the end of his career, I think Freeman was desperate to try to remain relevant, and he was recklessly ( Read more... )

I just finished reading The Lobotomist by Jack El-Hai, a biography of Walter Freeman, MD, PhD, who pioneered the lobotomy in the US (and invented the infamous transorbital version thereof) for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. I have this morbid-type fascination with lobotomy, and this book fulfilled that fascination so thoroughly as to give ( Read more... )