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state of the blog, two: re-socialized
I haven’t been giving this poor blog the attention it deserves, I admit it. Other shiny things have captured my attention for the moment, tho the cycle of indifference will inevitably circle back around and you’ll once again wonder where I find the time to fill these pages with so much drivel. I am a
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weekender, four
Being self-employed as I am, the holidays of my family tend to erupt into a kind of blur of confusion that leave me a bit discombobulated. The Kid just finished her reading week break, and we capped it off with a trip to the mountains, having left last Thursday and rolled back home on Sunday
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media: winter science fiction-ing
I haven’t been much of a television watcher these last ten years or so, but I do hunt down good science fiction when I can and enjoy a good speculative romp through the clever landscapes of surrealism and technology mashed together. Fantastic creatures, galactic politics, or philosophical swirls through the soul, it all nabs me
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weekender, three
The weather has warmed in the last week, but mostly that just means we can’t go outside because the freeze and thaw cycle is leaving the sidewalks a horrific mess of glazed ice. We settled in on Friday evening and watched the (delayed) stream of the Olympics opening ceremony from Milan, etc. We visited Milan
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cough-ee, two
I’m still coffee-less. I won’t further bore you with the medical details, but for reasons of pressing health management I have not been drinking coffee for over a month. I haven’t been avoiding caffeine, per se, but given that coffee was my major source of the stimulant I have simultaneously come close to clearing that