Year: 2018
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Wrapping up 2018
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I’m sitting here today copying my giant stack of ancient backup CD/DVDs to SSD. Some of these CDs date back to when CDs were invented — here’s one from 1992,…
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Winding down the year…
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Roughly two weeks left in 2018; what a ride. Next week starts the big vacation period here at work — no one will be here, which is always nice as…
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Monday – again!?
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There seems to be a never-ending supply of Mondays… The art project from the weekend was approved with no alterations, so that was nice. I handed over the .png files…
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Entropy isn’t what it used to be…
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Yesterday morning my six year old spectacles finally succumbed to the second law of thermodynamics. After some clever wire-wrapping though (a skill we elder nerds possess) I got them back…
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Road trip…
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Spent the night in Walsenburg for the planning commission meeting today — which took all of 15 minutes. They determined that the county needed to determine a few things before…
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Update…
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I had an early morning meeting with Comcast Business to go over the final paperwork before presenting it to my CFO for signature. This comes after I sent the ‘thanks…
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A little under the weather…
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Not a lot of news as I’ve been down with a touch of the flu for the last couple of days. I stayed home yesterday to try and recover a…
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Friday!
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My second Christmas present to myself came in yesterday; a new pillow that is intended to help my perpetual neck issues. It’s this super high-tech foam thing made by a…
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Art life, part two…
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Yesterday was a one / two punch of failure that has me doubting my ability to split my focus on my day-job and my after-hours art job… The Christmas card…
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Camping!
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I picked up a new sleeping bag yesterday — a Big Agnes Buffalo Park. It’ll be super comfy as it’s one of those new integrated pad/bag setups where there’s a…
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Art life and the complications of Network Engineering…
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I have a meeting with the client that has me making icons this afternoon. I think I’ll let them know that once they are happy with this one set, I’m…
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Out and about…
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A friend of mine likes to bowl, and even though I don’t I still go to watch and get in on some bowling alley food… Bowling alley food tends to…
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End of year bonus!
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My company does end-of-year profit sharing, so the check before Christmas is usually bit bigger than the rest. Well, the last two years have been pretty slow as our marketing…
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Update…
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Let’s see here. The Murano is about to tick over to 3000 miles — not too bad for having bought it with 13 miles on the clock back in July.…
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Some new art…
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This goes with the short-lived attempt at a cyberpunk-esque roleplay setting I was creating with some friends. I got the setting backstory done, all of the races and whatnot, and…
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A burrito the size of a small child’s head…
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On the way to work this morning I had to stop by the bank and hit up the ATM for $20. See, we have 25 cent sodas in the machines…
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10 Year Plan Update
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Was down in southern Colorado this last weekend going over land details. I’m buying 10 acres in a sort of upside-down “L” that looks a bit like this: And here’s…
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Entertainment…
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Over the last couple of days I binge-watched all 64 episodes of “Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood”… I found it quite enjoyable, and would recommend it to anyone looking for a quirky…
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If a service is free, you are the product…
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As of today I am Twitter-free. I was getting frustrated with the service and it’s obvious biases, privacy issues, and the engineered outrage at anything politically convenient. So I bailed.…
