Chuck lunches and the senseless death of a tablespoon’s worth of liqueur

Some years back, I had a job in a pretty high-stress environment with a complicated and problematic computer network. Fun fact: my predecessor had literally walked off the job after less than a week, he just quietly disappeared without saying anything. He left several program windows open on-screen on one of the servers, and a...

Still have all my digits, but lost some spoons

I managed to build both deck gates last week, and they came out really nice! I didn't incur any injuries, but it took me two days to get it all done and afterwards I crashed hard - I spent most of the third day of the long weekend curled up under a blanket on the...

Saturday! The day I celebrate not having to work… by working

Well, I survived two very hard weeks at work, rolling out a project that had a hard deadline of August 31; a deadline (surprise, surprise) we weren't able to meet because things didn't go according to plan. But I did everything I could to complete my part of it, I left everything in a more...

Crickets

I realize it's been awful quiet over here the past few weeks, (cue crickets chirping) but I've been involved in a large messy project at work that has a hard deadline of August 31, so it's likely to continue to at least that point if not longer. Right now I am just trying to hang...

‘It’s not me, it’s you’

I feel like all I am doing lately on here is complaining about my dysfunctional family; this is going to be another post in the same vein, but it will hopefully be the last one for a while as I am giving up on this particular battle. A few weeks back, I wrote about my...

Snark-in-the-box

Mailbox, that is. The silence from the north was finally broken this past week. I opened my mailbox and took out what at first just looked like a large wad of flyers and coupons, but then a postcard slipped out of the pile. On one side was a map depicting Key West, Florida. On the...

Dogs and Cats and POTS, oh my!

My four days of solitude passed much faster than I would have liked. On the first day, my biggest accomplishment was to trigger some sort of POTS episode that almost made me pass out (more on this in a bit) and by the second day, I felt guilty for sitting around and embarked upon one...

Recharging and refocusing

My partner left early this morning to visit an old school friend for the next four days. Since getting the nine pets taken care of in the morning is a lot of work, and I am still feeling run down from the Charleston trip, I decided to take today and tomorrow off to have four...

There’s a saying ‘When one door closes, another opens…’

Yeah... that's not always a good thing. As I mentioned about a week ago, my younger full brother, who my mother had given up for adoption when he was a toddler unexpectedly made contact, and my mother was so overwhelmed and emotional that I offered to write a reply on her behalf, to kind of...