Windbringer's internal clock tells me that, as I write this the calendar date is 27 December 2025. To be honest, I kind of lost track of the date just before Christmas of this year. Everything started blurring together around that time, in part because it had been raining so much in California and in part because my...

Snowhawk (n): The ridge of snow in the middle of the roof of the vehicle that the driver couldn't reach and is driving around with. Source: Nauga Clown

Beginner's lock: When you get a new lock for your collection and pick it open a couple of times without a whole lot of trouble. Then you put the lock down for a day or so and subsequently have absolutely no luck getting it open again for weeks or months. ref., beginner's luck

Welp. Here we go again. If you haven't been paying attention to social media lately (and for the sake of your mental health, I hope you haven't - ye gods, the world...) I got laid off in the last week of October without warning. A not entirely unprecedented early morning meeting rapidly turned into being told that...

It's been a long year. Here's another update to my .plan file. The usual warnings apply.

While tinkering with a new project last week that involved my old BBS tagline database I rediscovered the tagline that I used as the title of this post. I've been trying to keep up with my pattern of posting at least once every month but it's been hard, what with everything going on. Out of an abundance of caution I...

It's been a bit since I've checked in with everyone. About a week after my last post I found out that I'd been moved back to day shift at work. Through a miscommunication I found this out the hard way, which is to say right after logging in one evening my boss wanted to know where I'd been all day. Long story short,...

The inherent instability of working night shift aside, I've been pretty busy straightening up my life by straightening up my usual environment. Therapy cleaning, if you will. To avoid recapping the last couple of years, after my mom died I shipped a large number of shipping crates of stuff (paperwork, research, data...

Hi, folks. I don't ordinarily address everybody directly like this. It never feels right. Just not my thing, you know? Anyway, this is for folks who have my RSS or ATOM feeds in their feed readers. I really appreciate it - not enough folks use feeds these days or have presences outside of the walled gardens....

Compared to how things have been going lately, things... haven't changed much, really. I'm still on night shift at work and it looks like I will be for another couple of weeks; September at the earliest. There's a lot going on right now and things aren't in place yet. That's about all I'm in a positin to talk about,...

Yes, I know that's not what Shakespeare meant. Not like that's ever stopped anybody in marketing or people with too much money and hungry for more. Okay. You've been inundated in what the industry is calling AI technology for months on end. I don't need to introduce it because the only way you could have avoided it...

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I'd had some emergency dental surgery that involved some reconstructive work. And I was in the hospital a few weeks after that (which I haven't written about but might later) for something unrelated. Another thing I didn't write about was what happened after I got out of the...