Waiting for the melatonin to kick in, to drift off to dreamy-dream land. I'm at a training institute in Mt. Pleasant this week, now having driven out here, registered, checked in, my room wasn't quite ready yet, by the time it was, I only had time to get the keycard and get back to class, which was about to start. Orientation session, an absolutely ( Read more... )

Well, no wine, because I gave up drinking for Lent. And no roses, because it's 23 degrees out today... And I've never actually read the book, only a reference to it in Rummies by Peter Benchley. So yeah, I guess actually none of that whatsoever, although I love the title. Days of wine and roses, I mean, it just evokes emotion and mental images, one ( Read more... )

This weekend has been nice; well, except for my phone ringing at regular intervals throughout… Emergency Miss Dig… Burst pipes… Sewer backup… I mean, this is part of my job, and I’m making some sick OT since it’s a full-bore holiday weekend, and this check is also picking up all of that OT for Christmas and what have you (like, this could seriously ( Read more... )

Not inside, because I actually turned on the little space heater (one of those fancy infrared ones what’s got the wooden cabinet around it and looks like a little bit of furniture), but outside. It was 34 degrees when the sprinkler guys came, with a heavy frost atop my car. I don’t know if the flowers are killed or not, we shall see if they turn ( Read more... )

I completed school… not this past March or April or whatever, but the one before. I graduated in 2021, that’s right, 20 years after I graduated high school. And after that point, I wanted to get up north once a month. That’s been my goal. Because during school, I didn’t get up to the cabin a whole lot, and that’s usually the go-to. Because it’s ( Read more... )

Son of a bitch. So, I’ve been sitting here journaling and trying to get my thoughts together, whilst sorting through mail on my desk, for a couple hours or so, I don’t know, and go to hit post, and it fucks up, switches to the new post editor, and deletes my post. Great. That’s a bunch of rather salient thoughts down the drain.

And the bitch is ( Read more... )

It's 3:00 on Saturday. I have the house to myself, as Jenny is at a retreat. I am working all day tomorrow at Festival, so today's the bumming around the house, getting shit done day. Luke invited me out to their stately manor for pizza, pool, and badminton, all of which sound absolutely grand, but I have taken a rain-check for next weekend, as I ( Read more... )

I have just this massive queue of news and other happenings that I want to opine on; it helps to get it out, helps my brain work through some of the craziness. Because these are crazy times. Like, oh, I don't know, how about the fact that we keep... No, let's jump back a bit. There's this movie called Wag the Dog, and damned if it isn't about the ( Read more... )

Started this post at some point in the past ( Read more... )

Coming at you live from Mt. Pleasant, and yes, I'm right next to the CMU campus... Now, to be fair, I expect EVERYTHING in Mt Pleasant is "right next to the CMU campus", in the grand scheme of things; I don't know its geographic boundaries or its population off the top of my head. In point of fact, I've never actually been here before ( Read more... )