If there's one thing I'd like, it's to have a week uninterrupted by headaches. More specifically, the headaches that grin at you with a slasher smile, slowly draw a knife up in the air, and stab you repeatedly in the head until you cry uncle and crawl into a dark room under cool blankets in the hope to die before the migraine kicks in.

So this will ( Read more... )

There's something about not posting (for whatever reason) that is its own self-fulfilling prophecy.  The longer I go without posting, the guiltier I feel, and the guiltier I feel, the longer I go without posting.

Here is a perfectly guilt-free post

I'm still around, though I haven't been checking anything with any kind of regular frequency, and ( Read more... )

As a standard disclaimer, for this post, assume "tabs" does not mean "an enumerated bill listing all items for which payment is owing", but instead, "the doohickeys filling up the browser's capabilities with a number of items to be read, referenced, or investigated further at a later time."

In other words, my browser has too many tabs.

About 70% of ( Read more... )

I don't know what it is about being home that makes my brain turn off. The logic part of my head in charge of the Things I have to do to make a buck are completely worn down, but the creative side should be picking up the slack, right ( Read more... )

As mentioned, January was going to be a beast no matter how much I squinted at it.  In the aftermath, it doesn't look any prettier, but it's done, and I've appreciated the break.

So, monsters aside, we're nearly at the end of February, which was a month of sub-zero... wait.  "Sub-zero" doesn't really have much significance these days, given the ( Read more... )

First! I'm alive!

As previously anticipated, January was Hell Month, because of DeadlinesTM and surprise!meetings booked within a hair's breadth of each other.  Also, as previously anticipated, I got nothing else done.

For what it's worth, I managed to complete all the work by the end of January in advance of the actual due dates (the client inquired ( Read more... )

An update in the form of a random drive-by, before I fall back on old (bad) habits of not posting on a regular basis:

There have been no new words to Current Writing Project, largely because I was distracted with books, and decided to spend the last week of my vacation reading.  And reading.  And reading.

I did get a bit further with setting up ( Read more... )

Happy new year! Here's wishing 2019 is everything you want it to be!

I have a short list of 7 resolutions objectives tasks which were originally intended to be completed between September and December of 2018, but which didn't happen because of ReasonsTM, and have carried over. I'm giving myself five months to get these completed, and at the end ( Read more... )

I'm looking for a book (or books) with a comprehensive overview of pre-medieval and medieval Gallic/French history.  It can be in French or English ( Read more... )

In the 9 days since my last post, I've had a migraine, involved myself in family-holiday things, slipped on the ice shoveling snow, fell down the stairs in the house, and wrenched my shoulder catching myself from what would've been an awfully painful fall. Somewhere in there, the Spouse got miffed at me, and I think it had something to do with ( Read more... )