I’m not dead! Today’s Ebony’s birthday. She’s 19 today, which has kind of put some things in perspective, but I’m still advancing forward. After 22 years, I am finally closing on a construction loan Monday (4/20 amuses me far more than it should, kind of like 6-7…). After all this time, the house is finally…

The last six months have… sucked. The day after I went on hiatus, Casper died. Kitty disappeared three days ago, and I probably will never see her again. And yet, after all the philosophy I’ve read, the most profound, soul-crushing realization I’ve had is… … None of it matters. In 20 to 30 billion years,…

Welp, 2024 was an eventful year, a year in which I bought a shipping container and had it fitted out to be a lab and writing space separate from the house. A year in which a cat (Kitty) adopted me, and I adopted a dog (Sarge)—though the jury is still out as to whether I…

I went back and reread my latest post on here (good grief, it’s been 4-1/2 months already?), and I realized I’m due for an update. Where to start? Well, first off, I’m not managing anymore—not officially, anyway. I’m back to designing circuits, and I have really missed it. There are tedious bits—I just completed the…

I wish the thoughts would coalesce… My mind is going several different directions: I’ll tackle the last one first because it illustrates how intertwined all of these disparate trains of thought are. I have been watching a lot of historical documentaries lately, mostly on the history of the United Kingdom (specifically, the Stuarts, Hanoverians, and…

Today, I am taking a mental health day. It’s the first time for me, taking a single day off for mental health and using sick time to do it rather than taking a longer vacation and calling it “mental health” tongue-in-cheek. But, although I have called my vacations “mental health” tongue-in-cheek before, I am taking…

Hey, all. Been a while since I last posted an update (other than a Jack’s Blacks announcement). First off, some sad news: I had to put Cloudy (one of the horses) down a couple of weeks ago. It’s a long story, but the short version is that the vet I contacted was unresponsive, and I…

So, I dutifully tried my hand at Kindle Vella. For those who aren’t familiar, you create stories and then release them one chapter (“episode”) at a time. So, I created the story, included the more controversial themes that would be included, and submitted it. They don’t make it go live until you publish your first…

Hey, all. It occurred to me as I was posting the notice about The Service that it’s been a long time since I last posted an update. I think I’m due. So, let’s see… Work is going well. Very well. I became full-time in March and have recently been designing circuits again, setting up Jira…

A terrible product idea: nostril epilator. A great novel idea: Moby’s Dick, the tragic tale in which Moby ghosts Captain Ahab after an amazing night of passion, and Captain Ahab, unable to get that intensely satisfying fullness any other way, vows that he will have that whale inside him again—dead or alive. Sorry, sorry: that’s…

My friend died of COVID today. One of only two other furries I know in my tiny, tiny town, he died this morning, one day short of two weeks after his brother died of it. I had been helping his family moving hay bales in my friend’s and his brother’s absence, and his mom has…

I quit my job the day before yesterday. Well, to be more accurate, I quit my job two weeks ago, and yesterday was my last day. It’s been seven years that I’ve worked at this job, doing work I really dislike, and I have at last found a role with another company that will let…

Hey, all. Just a quick update since things are going well: I’ve been chugging along with my commissions and have made it through all of my new commissioners as of yesterday night. I’ll be starting the repeat customers probably today or maybe tomorrow (gotta go into work today, so that adds a couple of hours…

I’ve been fascinated by the thought of direct air capture and have watched a few videos on it, but inevitably, they always come back to pumping CO2 underground, and I can’t help think to myself: What a waste—there are so many products we use that have high carbon content; why not use that carbon for…

Phew, what a whirlwind it’s been since my last post! I had thought that things would slow down once the tiny house got here, but it turns out there was just more work to be done once it did! My dad and I got the electrical hooked up, and I got the water hooked up.…

The election has been called for Biden, and for that I’m grateful and relieved. However, the closeness of the election has given me pause. A big pause. I have never liked Trump, and it’s not because I’m anti-conservative. I lean fiscally conservative myself. What I dislike about him is his divisiveness, the rude and disparaging…

The last six or so weeks have been, in a word, insane. I paid off the land and then promptly ended up in the hospital for five days with diverticulitis. While that was not “enjoyable”, it did light a fire under my ass to get out of the camper. I was lying there on the…