Well, for a guy that has more games than he knows what to do with, I'm inexplicably bored tonight. Nothing much is holding my attention. Odd. I had a nice 2-hour bicycle ride today, along the Snoqualmie Valley trail. Then my mother stopped by and rambled for a couple of hours ( Read more... )

 After a long day spent furthering the machinations of the Evil Empire(tm), I like to unwind with one of various online computer games (not sure why, but the term "video game" just doesn't capture it... I associate that term with Atari 2600, for some reason :)). These days, I'm dabbling with (in descending order of the time spent):

1 - World of ( Read more... )

After spending entirely too much time reading other people's blogs while on vacation, I decided that perhaps I should get my fingers off their backsides and start writing again myself.  I had just suggested to a friend that rather than making "resolutions", perhaps the new year should instead be time for us to conduct a review of our past year, ( Read more... )

On Friday, August 19, I officially started my 20/20 Lifestyles program. 10 week program, followed by a 12-week maintenance period ( Read more... )

Well, after 40 years, I was finally called to Jury Duty. A 630am slog southward to the Kent District court, followed by a fun-filled day of sitting in uncomfortable chairs and waiting ( Read more... )

Well, in this case, it's more the accumulated damage of 9 years with the evil empire and poor priorities (work over pretty much everything else ( Read more... )

Well, so far 2005 has been a pain. My work situation has been growing increasingly stressful, with a boss that admits to poor communication skills and frequent lack of context contributing to a rather difficult work environment ( Read more... )

I'll be -very- glad to have my mother and her menagerie gone. Guess I like my privacy.

And I think it's making me grumpier than usual.

more when I'm more coherent.

Well, my best intentions of hiding from the public until after the holiday insanity had passed was thwarted by a moving company's inability to accept debit cards for payment. So, I had to trundle into work, resign some paperwork they'd faxed to me, then fax it back, to make sure they don't decide to keep my mother's stuff (she's relocating to this ( Read more... )

Well, I've been off work for 3 days, though much of total was a loss. My recurring dry eye problem recurred at 7am, with head-clutching "glass shards in the eye" level of pain. Joy. So I ended up trying to sleep to give it time to heal, and slept in fits and starts until 2pm ( Read more... )