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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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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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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
Category: life & stuff
Generally just words and thoughts on the progress of my day-to-day.