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weekender, two
The verdict was that “it’s probably better than sitting around watching tv all night” so we took a chance and drove to the far side of the city and beyond and found ourselves in one of the little bedroom communities on the outskirts of town, driving through a dark gravel road and ending up at
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weekender, one
New year and new “weekend” report title. The Weekend Wrap is becoming the Weekender for 2026, so stay tuned for rambling reports on how we spent ours. The Kid went out on Friday, so Karin and I dug a gift card out of the archives and hit the local pub for drinks and dinner. The
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facing the punching
One quote that sums up your 2025 is… Easy come, easy go. In many ways I signed up for a kind of trial of instability. Not locking into regularly scheduled employment for a couple years, taking gigs, doing contracts, picking at projects, working part time, going back to school, et cetera, et cetera… it all
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lucid professionalism
What made your job interesting in 2025? Some people may incorrectly tell you that technically I don’t have a job. They are wrong. I am not traditionally employed these days, true, but I do in a very real sense work for myself… which is a huge job and a lot of work. Living the dream…
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cheap-ish therapy
Who or what are you leaving behind in 2025? I was reading over old posts. I mean, half the reason I write this damn blog is that, as they say, writing is cheaper than therapy. That is to say… these words are mostly for me. It is a public journal of a sort, after all,





