::cue Whitey Ford::

Nothing makes you appreciate your financial mortality like a wade through the waters of your health-insurance benefits.

Ironically, this is doubly true because these are the best benefits I've ever had, and I'm currently making some of the best money I've ever made - certainly more than enough to be comfortable by ( Read more... )

This post by almost-polyphaser Marco Calvo Cruz (I know, somebody won the name lottery, right?) has a bit of information in it that I feel kind of Duh for having never focused on before (at least, I don’t think I have) - and this excellent post over on Minding Your Way fits right into it, too.

The lesson is “light exercise”.
Exercise Lite

Yes, ( Read more... )

There are a million things I could be writing instead,

but today I had to remind every facet of myself

that judgment is bullshit.  Every measuring-device

we invent and hold up to ourselves is wildly flawed,

and every decision we make based on "I'm not good enough"

will never lead to better.

Accept what is.

Be gentle ( Read more... )

There are some words I just want to yank away from people and put on a high shelf until they're big enough to know better.

"Community" is one of them.  There've been some particularly egregious violations of this word in my world lately, which is why I'm throwing it in the spotlight (and up on the high shelf), but it's hardly a new problem ( Read more... )

Okay.  I haven't had a lot of time for blogging lately, but this is important.

I'm not a journalist.  But I *am* a type of logician, and this one logical fail going on seemingly everywhere in my country is causing insane levels of harm.  Here it is:  It is not the same to say,

• Police shot and killed a man on Storrow Drive today.  
  
  • ( Read more... )

(no no, not distrust of blankets. we like blankets. they’re like towels, but they mean business. the fully-automatic not-effing-around of douglasadamsian towels.)

(but I digress, before I’ve begun. BECAUSE THAT’S HOW I ROLL, obviously.)

It’s hard to know what thoughts to trust when your brain lies all the time. Even more so when you’re obsessed ( Read more... )

Dear holy crapgods wow. Penguicon was - as always, granted - amazing. Still just one of the best cons anywhere.

This time I just did the one polyphasic talk - I’ve done two in past years, to give room for a “birds of a feather” or specialized aspect of napping - and it worked out fine, though I did feel a little rushed to give everyone enough ( Read more... )

Greetings from Penguicon! The polyphasic sleep panel is tomorrow; today is full of teaching and learning martial arts and other great stuff; in short, I could barely be happier if Buddha showed up and demanded it. ;P

I thought of a great example of something I blather about a lot, on the way here: Defaults. “Setting your defaults” refers to the ( Read more... )

Tons of things going on!

• First of all, I was hoping to adapt back to Uberman, and got some way through planning it before realizing that yeah, that’s idiotic of me…I’m off work right now, but full-time officey gig is coming back soon, and why on earth would I adapt just to have to give it up in a month or so?? Wishful thinking, of course. But I ( Read more... )

I can’t get over this question lately: Why do I feel so short on time?

The reason the question bugs me is that, while I don’t have An Answer, I do have one piece of answer, and it is this: The answer is NOT that I don’t have enough time to do all the things I want to.

I know this piece of answer because I’ve experienced, over the last few years, ( Read more... )