Greetings epaulets. I have seen Yet Another News Screed about HHS offering Big Big Buyouts to their employees, and I feel like the journalists didn’t really understand what was going on (or at least didn’t match MY perspective) so I thought I would give it (my perspective) as a federal employee. Abstract: I feel very…
I lamented during the pandemic that my high-functioning anxiety was an asset. Here most people were, sort of locked up and too-scared-to-do-anything and not sure what to try next because they were worried that the second they walked out the door they might touch something or get sneezed-on and then come home and accidentally infect…
As of today, Facebook and anything else Meta (Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads) is a place giving me “the ick.” They have pretty much shut down all DEI and basically “Unprotected” anything having to do with LGBTQIA: The ability to quickly report queer attacks, misinformation, or slurs. If I see something horribly wrong about trans or gay…
I don’t know when I fell out of the habit of going to the library… Maybe it was because the Internet was just exploding and it was so easy and cheap to get things on kindle and I wasn’t even perusing physical bookstores anymore… But I remembered that at some point my library card was…
We finally ordered a new oven/cooking-range because the old oven (bought around 2006 when we got the house) decided it no longer was able to consistently ‘oven’: It would preheat, then suddenly not be able to heat anymore once whatever was in the oven. Thus, cookies and cakes and roasts and such would… sorta cook,…
Me blathering like I do about social media, which I think Truman Capote predicted in “Other Voices, Other Rooms” (Can’t be sure, haven’t read it yet). I continue to use and love mastodon, despite it’s foibles, but I have a better idea of why I love it so much: It is because I am a…
So, I am continuing to tinker with the spiffy new wordpress plugin that basically sets up your wordpress site to be follow-able by a bunch of different activitypub protocols (namely mastodon). Thus, it will be easy for folks to subscribe-to and I think even interact with my blog this way. If it works, Neat! This…
In which I woke up with a BIT too much serotonin and blather a few things that remind everyone that I can be a problem precisely because I am probably too smart and listen too well for my own good sometimes. Health, Wealth and Success: Seems to be pretty good. I have aged into my…
The short answer is: I’m part of the control group. The long answer is: I am currently a 40-something and grew up with a lot of television and have spent enough of my life in a “TV Show Hype Cycle” and nearly every show I was ever excited over or held dear is either problematic…
So, way back in my formative youth, I remember the great saga of Calvin and Hobbes’ Battery Operated Fan Beanie. In the comic, Calvin sees that he can turn in Cereal Box Tops for a plastic, child-sized beanie with a fan on top that would be spun by battery power. Bill Watterson perfectly captured the…