This month has been crazy, for all sorts of reasons.

First, there was the Capitol Riot on January 6th. Trump, still clinging to the belief of a stolen election, whipped his supporters up into a lather, and told them to march down to Congress. And they did. Past police barricades and into the chambers, minutes after Congress fled for their lives.

In ( Read more... )

Maybe we did, and it's time for a Year in Review©.

There are even less posts this year than last year. But for the sake of tradition, here we go:

January 11th - In what feels like forever ago, my biggest concern was whether I even wanted the interim management position I was filling in for. It was certainly more stressful than my previous/current ( Read more... )

Over time, I have felt less and less the need to post my thoughts here. Which is probably a shame. This is perhaps the fastest method to access my thoughts in a relatively direct fashion. And then there is the whole posterity angle. What were you worried about 2004? That could potentially be something someone is interested in, sometime. Perhaps my ( Read more... )

It appears that I have turned... let me check three different sources... yep, 37.

We just had a major Go-Live event at the Job so I scheduled Wednesday through Friday off to give myself from breathing space. I had worked 5 hours on a Sunday to make things a success and had then planned on "leaving" work early today to compensate. As it turns out, ( Read more... )

It has been a minute, eh? Or has it been a thousand years? Quarantine time, man, it'll get ya.

For posterity's sake, it is worth noting that COVID-19 continues to ravage the world. Or perhaps mainly just the US. We are now past the 150,000+ dead milestone with no particular indication things are heading in the right direction. The Shitstain in ( Read more... )

I was not selected for my current interim position.

My manager actually called me after hours, apparently worried that I would have found out about the non-selection via email, e.g. from the onboarding of some rando for my own position. It took a while to understand what she was talking about; it wasn't until 30 minutes after the call that I even ( Read more... )

I have actually had several different versions of this post started, but things have changed so quickly that they become obsolete in a day. For posterity though, let's go ahead and plow through this.

Coronavirus has gripped the world. It's officially a pandemic and community transmission has been confirmed here in the US. I had prior posts talking ( Read more... )

Our babysitter gave a two week notice... about two weeks ago.

We've obviously gone through the babysitter/daycare process once already, and had our moments of (apparently mild) sticker shock. This new round though, highlights the simple absurdities that fully explain the true costs of child-rearing. After calling seven different daycares and doing ( Read more... )

Had my interview for my current interim position last week.

Throughout that week, I have not worried much at all about the interview. Some people around me have said "oh, of course you would get it," but that's not why. The truth is that I would be happy either way. If they hired someone new to take over this seat, well, thank Christ. This job is ( Read more... )

It's been about 4.5 months since I started the interim position at the Job. Some days are worse than others, but none of them feel particularly hopeless. Just, you know, draining. Or not really draining in the typical sense, but rather frustrating when you can never get caught up ( Read more... )