I'm trying to remember how to vacation properly. Stay-at-home vacations are a little rough, because the main activities here which are outside my usual daily routine are mostly chores. While chores may be necessary, they're not what I would call exciting ( Read more... )

So, positives, because I'm officially on vacation and don't have to be negative for almost a week ( Read more... )

I now have a new boo-boo on my car ( Read more... )

Been sort of running around a lot. Whether or not all this frenetic activity is accomplishing anything is another question ( Read more... )

I had my first flu shot on Wednesday. They were free at work, and my reasoning went like this: I'm going to see my siblings in a couple of weeks, and they are germ factories, plus a lot of people at work have kids and will be bringing in their own germs ( Read more... )

* Had a little bout of depression last night. The job is stressful at the best of times, and my boss likes to micro-manage at odd times. She sent an email at about 8 p.m. with five tasks I should be doing every day; I'm already doing all five, although admittedly two of them could be done better. So I got a nice long moment of realizing my boss ( Read more... )

Insomnia is not as much fun as it's cracked up to be.

Especially when it's not combined with the kind of energy that lets me write anything worth reading.

Yes.

We.

Did.

Gaaaahhhh!! This was so much easier at the J-W that I can't even describe it!

Also:

Nothing like running around a newsroom between three computers while wearing a freakin' tie.

That is all.

UPDATE: Oh, and now the CMS crashed. For the entire group using this product.

Yay for national databases and service providers.

I went to the caucus in Douglas County earlier this year, and I was impressed then with the voter turnout. We had maybe a couple thousand at the Fairgrounds that night ( Read more... )