So, I'm dealing with finding out my teenaged cousin is a witch with a grudge against a vamp who killed her mother when I get a phone call from a certain person involved in federal law enforcement ( Read more... )

You'd think that being between companies and having enough in the bank to take the summer off would be restful, but you'd be wrong. Yes, I know I'm still technically a consultant to Vampster, but things go much easier if Monique and I aren't in the same place at the same time ( Read more... )

Let's see, after losing my house, I've now gotten the crap kicked out of me fighting faerie hosts, talked with the first Evil camping out in my office, and gotten the smarmy patronizing "you're just not coming from the proper class background" treatment explaining why I'll never really succeed in business per the Gospel according to Samuel Devins ( Read more... )

What with all the dire stuff going on around this planet, I was momentarily diverted by the SJ Mercury News devoting a large portion of today's business section to the world-shaking controversy around the haircolor of Valley CEOs (male CEOs=gray hair mostly acceptable, female CEOs=gray hair mostly unacceptable). Go get a password from bugmenot.com ( Read more... )

We still need you at work tomorrow, irishunluck so don't party too hard today.

at being thrown into an alternate universe while a software demo is imploding. The only thing weirder would be to have Spock with a goatee or that really scary Intendant Kira Nerys from DS9 show up ( Read more... )

I must be a sucker for strays ( Read more... )

Even on a Maui vacation (to recover from the party and all the board room angst before that!), I still check in once in a while to see what the gang is up to. You can blame the infrequent comments on the fact that I've got to go all the way into Wailuku town to the coffee shop on Market Street to get online, and that's a three hour drive on a ( Read more... )

Just heard from Max; she's holding things together with metaphorical duct tape and prayer. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some sort of ritual being done over the servers to keep things running, although Max doesn't seem to be the type to do the classic black goat offering over SCSI cables (not her sort of magick). She's made a powerful ( Read more... )

The VCs got back to me and offered a devil's bargain ( Read more... )