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No Blog Post/Tiny Blog Post This Week

I’m in the middle of Boeing 767 training this week and have had to flip my sleep schedule around so that I’m arriving at class at the time I normally get off work. I am very tired and have needed all my spare time to study and engage in soul-restoring mountain bike rides. By next […]

Technical Difficulties

Faithful readers, this week’s post will be a customer service rant because I’m in the middle of a Kafkaesque experience with my internet company and I am without internet except for the occasional connectivity I can get by tethering my phone. Actually the phone tethering worked pretty well until I streamed several episodes of “Grace […]

Pass Rider – a New Board Game

Someday when I have run out of things to do, I’m going to invent a new board game so that people who don’t have pass travel privileges can experience the excitement of “non-revving.” To give you a preview of how the game would work, let’s walk through a typical experience: Roll the dice and advance […]

What is This Brain Sorcery?

When I was in A&P school I struggled a lot with the electrical portion of the training. I have always been good with concrete concepts rendered concretely, and abstract concepts rendered abstractly, but there was something about a concrete event (the movement of electrons) rendered in the abstract that just kept stumping me. Similarly I […]

Kids These Days, the Ballad of the Sad Countertop

I recently ordered new countertops for my house. When I had my kitchen remodeled in the early aughts I had a very constrained budget so a tile counter made a lot of sense. The person who installed it did a beautiful job, but over time I got tired of trying to keep the grout lines […]

Things I Don’t Understand – Hatred of the Press Edition

Someone posted in a Facebook group I belong to, about a conversation she had with a Homeland Security agent. The gist of it was that she asked what he was doing, he said he was protecting the “homeland” from scary people. This resulted in a conversation about the Muslim ban and what regular citizens can […]

Running To Versus Running From

Years ago, while I was working the job that preceded my decision to leave corporate America in order to work on airplanes, a friend made the statement, “it’s always better to run to something that to run away from something.” That was really helpful and it was one of the principles that helped me pull […]

Another Live Story

A few months ago I did another Moth Story Slam. This time the theme was “risk.” I talked about how I went from being a Microsoft corporate grind to a line mechanic for a major airline. I came so close to winning with this one and really enjoyed telling the story. I hope you enjoy […]

We All Want the Same Things

In my current career I work alongside a number of people who are on the opposite side of the political spectrum from me. Amazingly, we’re not at each others’ throats most of the time. When we discuss politics my coworkers disagree, mostly in a civil fashion, but the rest of the time we work together, […]

Survival Guide From the Trenches of Dysfunction

I’ve talked to a lot of people who are surprised by current events. They are surprised when liars lie; they’re surprised when someone who promised to do outrageous things follows through and does them. And they are surprised that some people really are just shitty human beings. I grew up with some crazy people. Please […]