Lately, a few issues have been resurfacing and pointing out that I haven't been actively watching or taking care of myself in a while. I'm tackling these issues, albeit slowly, and I'm sure that soon I'll have things mostly under control. I think my idea of liiving cheaply has changed into an idea of not really engaging on any front, and while I ( Read more... )

For the longest time I've been vexed by the task of organizing myself in the music department. It's really daunting. To give you a sense of what I'm up against, I've got several file formats, a dozen types of music, info spread across ID3v1, 3, and the file names, and the whole thing needs to be comprehensible when added to a library software like ( Read more... )

I'll preface this post with a reminder that the weather has been holding forty degrees and overcast for most of the past week with stop-and-go ice-cold drizzle ( Read more... )

Time marches on. Rascal is now three months old, and his name is going to be permanent. He's getting pretty wild with playing, which is kinda wearing on me. I've stopped playing with him twice for a rogue bite to the face. When we had frankenroc over, he took a tooth the eyelid. I know I'm used to a far more sedate dog, but this isn't acceptable. The most ( Read more... )

Historians may one day care, but this is the first time I've posted from my phone ( Read more... )

At the New Year's party, frankenroc commented that I needed a dog. Now it's no secret that every member of our family misses having a dog since Casey passed away. As a matter of fact, Mom has been looking at puppies recently - a bad habit, for sure ( Read more... )

I had been working quite a few hours as Christmas approached, and had little time for shopping. I felt I could have done better last night, but it turns out this morning that that I didn't do badly ( Read more... )

If you read back through my blogs you will probably find a pattern of less than jubilant feelings around Christmas. I was pretty gung-ho about Halloween, but I'm still warming to the season. It's a rough year for that anyways. I've been realizing lately that I spend a lot of time moping around the house complaining about BestBuy not giving me hours ( Read more... )

The end of November brings Black Friday to retail. I pulled an extra long shift that day, but being with the Squad I wasn't too badly bruised by the shoppers. Can you believe there was a guy waiting outside the store a full 30 hours before Black Friday? His entire Thanksgiving blown for a sale ( Read more... )

I managed to get off work with the Geek Squad just after 3pm, knowing full well that I had no details on Halloween parties, no costume, no pumpkin at home, and no time ( Read more... )