Category: life & stuff

Generally just words and thoughts on the progress of my day-to-day.

  • weekend wrap three

    weekend wrap three

    How the heck is it already the middle of May? Didn’t we just do Christmas last week? I mean. C’mon! Next weekend is the long weekend, but this past few days have been a bit of a hectic hot mess. That’s okay, I guess. Everyone needs a hectic weekend here and there. This past weekend

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  • what’s in a name

    what’s in a name

    I have been inching towards some contracting work. Of course, nothing is ever guaranteed and in many ways I’m five steps ahead of myself here, but ultimately, all things being equal, my end game in this adventure is to start doing this kind of thing on the regular and actually get paid for it. I’ve

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  • derailed

    derailed

    I’ve been tiptoeing around the realities of my recent detour into part time work partly because I was trying to keep myself sane and partly because I was trying to avoid offending anyone there who may have stumbled upon this blog. But as I’ve written a couple times now, I recently quit that job. I

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  • patio season

    patio season

    It is only just the second day of May and I find myself sitting on the patio at the local Starbucks. Yeah, I know. There is a likely chance that you are reading this from somewhere in the world where (a) patio season in May is entirely normal and (b) eighteen degrees would not be

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  • big fishing it

    big fishing it

    I quit my job yesterday. That sounds overly dramatic. But it is true. I have been working a part time gig at a little local retail grocery store, off and on, for the last nine months. Karin spotted the advertising along the side of the road last summer, and we followed the progress of the

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