: The act of leaving my last job and starting a new one has felt so foreign to me, but everything has …
: Flying is an interesting test of human patience.
: Getting back to the old days of gaming With the price of RAM, GPUs, and storage reaching new heights, I think I found my solution: retro …
: Children of Time Finished reading: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚 A friend of mine had recommended this …
: Finished reading: Greatest Hits by Harlan Ellison 📚 Just finished this up last night and had a …
: Somehow we’re already a week into the first month of the new year. If this is any measure of …
: Finished reading: I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-Hee [백세희] 📚 This was a very …
: We live in a truly surreal time. While I was walking home the other day, the reality of the fact …
: I think I am just about over this cold. It’s been quite the hanger on.
: Finished reading: On Drugs by Justin Smith-Ruiu 📚 This was an interesting read. Not sure how well I …
: The poetry of getting sick going into the weekend isn’t lost on me.
: Not sure what this is for, but it’s hard to argue with.
: I have spent the last few nights doing that whole revenge sleep procrastination thing. Work has been …
: Just picked up MusicBox for my Mac devices. I think this will be an interesting way to track my …
: Tenth anniversary at the tiki!
: Early in the week, but I think I’ve had enough bad luck. Thanks, universe.
: Finished reading: Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss 📚 This was an interesting read as I …
: I Heard It's A Mess There Too I wrote earlier this year about how Aesop Rock had surprised me with an album so soon after his …
: I find it personally interesting when someone you think of one way reveals something about …
: Pretty rough day at work today. Ending the evening with a very late visit to the dog park. Bree was …
: Just watched Good Fortune with the better half. Good movie with a great message. Lots of fun, …
: Finished reading: Searches by Vauhini Vara 📚 This was a random pickup from TPL. Amazing read. After …
: Today in my continued adventures of God, I Hate Excel: Why don’t sheets connected to forms just …
: Probably no shock to anyone, but I feel happy outside of work. Work just feels like stress most of …
: The new macOS has all these little changes that I think are really great. I know a lot of people …
: Buzzed on a Thursday night!? Why I never! Maybe I was at the Shameful Tiki.
: Working for the weekend? I am doing the responsible thing this weekend and cranking out a ton of work. Days like this make me …
: Went the whole weekend without working. Will I regret it this week? Probably. Do I regret it now? …
: Finished reading: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 📚 I didn’t enjoy the writing …
: I should have spent today working, but I also really needed the day off. Guess which won. Still, I …
: The wife shot me a short video about this site: everynoise.com I may never return!
: I love TIFF season. A very excited young woman came up to me and asked, very sincerely and eagerly, …
: Currently reading: The Field Updated Ed by Lynne McTaggart 📚
: I love some good graffiti. Especially from a local OG.
: Whenever I get a span of three or four days off from work, I start to wonder why I work (apart from …
: My goal to read this year – any volume really – has been augmented by audiobooks. I can’t help but …
: This is where the squirrels are. The pup keeps checking for a friend to chase.
: Really happy to announce that I still haven’t started a podcast.
: The three-day weekend is something we celebrate and treat as normal. Why is it we work so much?
: This month has blown by somehow. So has the year. It’s been hard to keep up. I am working with …
: Bree had a vet visit today that went really well. The only change we need to make is taking bones …
: Oh snap! It’s almost the weekend. My favourite 15 minutes of the week are almost upon me. Time …
: For a Monday, today went by quickly. Started the workday with an SSO outage and ended with repeat …
: It’s always a bit of a letdown when we get to the dog park and there aren’t many or any dogs here. …
: Made it to the park with the pup. Lovely art on the picnic table here.
: Album thoughts: Aesop Rock - Black Hole Superette Artist: Aesop Rock Album: Black Hole Superette Release: 2024-05-30 Duration: 1 hour, 8 minutes …
: I listened to The New Sound by Geordie Greep today and I can’t get over how odd it was. I had an …
: That spring in my step? Just a new album from Aesop Rock!
: Album thoughts: BABYMONSTER - DRIP Artist: BABYMONSTER Album: DRIP Release: 2024-11-01 Duration: 27:49 Standout tracks: CLIK CLAK; …
: The last week has been so exhausting. Work. Life. It’s all a bit much right now.
: I think I might start writing about music for my own self satisfaction. Not sure there is any …
: I keep finding myself crawling closer to creativity but it feels so distant still. Little sparks …
: Very late to the party, but Balatro got me like whoa. Super fun and a good pre-bed game for me to …
: Since my last post, I turned gassed into very gassed and some recovery. Life is a cyclical thing and …
: I am so gassed lately. Hoped vacation would energize. While I felt great on vacation, work has …
: A new MaxFun member Finally joined Maximum Fun as a member. At present, I only listen to a handful of their shows, but I …
: Watching the season finale of the second season of Severance. I am glad other people are enjoying …
: I had to step back away from saying a few things out loud today that could have landed me in more …
: Having another listen to Tribe’s last album We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service. Such a …
: Change, steering, and words In the current flux of all things my work, I have wondered how I make changes for or to myself. At …
: Busy with work It’s been a rough couple of weeks with work. Outside of work? I’m doing well. There is just very …
: No sticker to prove it but I voted in my first Canadian provincial election!
: Wrapping up the better book I finished up Project Hail Mary over the weekend in a bit of a melancholy state. The book was really …
: Back to a better book I started Project Hail Mary following my last book and it’s just such a jarring difference in …
: Back to the books I set a goal for myself this year of reading at least four books. That may sound low to a lot of …
: I kind of lost some time there. The last week of work, as my wife put it, felt like a month of time. …
: Took tonight off work. Did non-work things. My director encouraged me to do so and it felt …
: Today blurred together in this horrible mess of meetings and calls before I managed to get anything …
: This week was such a fever dream. The handful of days that were paused for brief periods of sleep …
: Missing sleep makes me a broken person in so many ways ways. Currently patching holes with espresso.
: I am trying to practice mindfulness more now. And on days like the last few, it’s taking a lot …
: I know I have mentioned weekends a time or two before and will try to stop doing it so much, but I …
: Such a nice productive morning so far. Going to mess that all up now and do some tech-related stuff …
: Woof. Where has this week gone!? Just yesterday I was wishing it was the weekend again.
: Am I ready for this week of work? Probably not. Do I appreciate how relaxing the weekend was? …
: I am terrified to count up the number of hours I spent on calls this week at work. It’s not quite …
: Walk in listening to Iggy Pop’s Blah, Blah, Blah and walked home listening to Tom Jones’ Reload. …
: Brisk one this morning in the GTA. Still making do with a spring jacket. Just have to add gloves and …
: Work today has absolutely gassed me. I had non-stop meetings from 9 - 5 today with a few breaks …
: My better half just surprised me with a bit of great personal news. Such a needed injection of joy …
: Weekends are woefully too short. We should add more weekend days to the week. Maybe trim back the …
: Going to be spending the better part of my morning getting a security system configured for a …
: I guess the somewhat trite and typical thing to say would be, “Hello, World!” But I …