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Process Issues

| August 15, 2012

How I get dressed for work Choose an outfit. Search for shoes. Find a pair of shoes that don’t match, but that I want to wear. Try to justify wearing them anyway. Fester and plot while doing hair and makeup. Get dressed. Pick a completely new outfit. Get dressed again.

Lent 2012: The Failed Experiment

| April 8, 2012

Once upon a time, I tried to do NaNoWriMo while in my first trimester of pregnancy. It didn’t work. Neither did this (no, I’m not pregnant). I mean, it worked. It’s Easter Morning, and aside from any minor gaming I’ve done while writing about gamification for work or testing game-y things we’ve built and a [...]

Lent 2012: Worst Idea Ever

| March 4, 2012

Seriously. I spend all week struggling with all the “idle moments” urges to play an app on my phone for 5 minutes. I start twitching at work because of the standard work-related chaos that I usually relieve at the end of the day with a bit of Skyrim (or those idle moments with apps). It [...]

Lent 2012: I take an arrow to the xBox

| February 23, 2012

It’s that time of year again. You can keep your New Year Resolutions. Nobody ever expects to keep them. I’ll take Lent any day. what better time to battle a vice than when “everyone” is suffering through their own challenges alongside you and everyone expects to win? This year I’m taking the bold step of [...]

TL4T: When The Hive Mind Panics

| March 24, 2011

Spending time in train stations and crowded convention halls last weekend, I’ve seen the “hive mind” of what’s left of our animal instinct kick in. One person gets up without provocation to stand in line. Then 3, then virtually everyone. Those who stay behind start to panic that they’ve missed something. Masses of people can [...]

A Look Ahead: 2011

| January 4, 2011

2010 is officially over now. I’ve been meaning to talk to you about it for months, but life got in the way. It’ll be a bit more concise now. Lucky you. If the second half of 2010 had a theme, it was Challenge is the New Black. A couple of months ago something snapped and [...]

Emergency Musings

| July 11, 2010

I’ve learned a lot since waking up Saturday morning in excruciating abdominal pain.

Lent 2010: The Recap

| April 12, 2010

Considering I didn’t even muster the weekly checkup posts past week 3, it should come as no surprise that I’ve failed, at least in the traditional sense, to give up “not writing” for Lent. When you get right down to it, I wrote probably half the days, maybe less, and the closer it got to [...]

What Is More Disturbing?

| March 15, 2010

In the middle of the night Saturday night/Sunday morning there was a very loud boom outside. And then nothing. It was odd. Usually if there’s a crash of some sort, there are residual sounds. People yelling, debris falling, trucks backing up from whatever they crashed into, etc etc. I don’t want to give the impression [...]

Lent 2010: Week 3

| March 11, 2010

So…yeah. Last week was a doozy. I’m tired of making excuses and all, but man. it sucked. I thought I was going to have all these opportunities to write and get caught up, but as the week went by (and I fell and I recovered and I felt better and I took a glucose test [...]