Deadlines & Celebrations
Well, back to drinking. I have a couple of good excuses! The first is that I’m on an insane deadline for the next book I’m going to publish. The new title submission process my distributor puts me through involves about …
Tag: Rants
Storefront Friday
The logic behind taking a Friday off is to get chores done. There’s really no such thing as a mental health day these days, because I’ve found myself doing much more in my personal life than I do at work. …
Sell-Crazy
I’ve become addicted to selling junk. As part of the ongoing storage shed cleanout (my little 2008 project to cut down costs and eliminate the enormous pile of trash I’ve stuffed into multiple storage units in the far-flung DC suburbs) …
Comcast
Good morning from your capitol city, America. I’m a big fan of how the DC bars get in the mood for St. Patrick’s Day. When else can I walk into any bar at 7:30am and get a beer? Well, there …
Three Beers Later…
The biggest problem I have with updating Greatsociety is that I’m functionally illiterate. I wasn’t always this way, but I think college did something to the parts of my brain dedicated to all of the civilized niceties – like learning …
Anxiety
I have a recurring nightmare that does not involve getting a colonoscopy. If it did, it would make much more sense. Instead, my nightmare is a very basic, very unsurprising anxiety dream. So mundane, in fact, that I hesitate to …
SPOT on
In an attempt to fill the dead time between, you know, 9:30am and 6pm, I was reading deep into the news because, once you get past Obama, Iran, and whatever else has hit the fan, you can really ferret out …