the flying squirrel

Folks at work got us out on the patio for a barbecue at lunchtime to tell us about the Commuter Challenge. (For some reason, I keep wanting to insert a ‘p’ in “commuter”). I was torn between feeling guilty and virtuous. I mean, my “commute” is only 5km a day total, and I’d be walking [...]

I’m not having a whole lot of luck getting my head back into work stuff. It probably doesn’t help that the people I’m meant to be working with are still stuck in their own projects. I need people to talk to. But instead of complaining about work, I think I’ll write up some sort of [...]

Anime North is a bit painful this year. I mean literally. My back kinda hurts. I don’t have my recliner to resort to. I complain, but I actually think things are getting better. I can actually stand and walk around most of the day and end up tolerating it. More or less. Anyway… We spent [...]

From AN2007 Dr McNinja!

So I had my second appointment with the athletic therapist guy yesterday and he recommended that I get out walking again. I tried walking around at lunch last week, but ended up in pain the rest of the afternoon. But he did stuff to my back and that helped last time, so I decided to [...]

A couple things appeared in my river of news this morning. I like to point out this sort of synchronicity when it happens. First, Mike Gunderloy (who wrote Coder to Developer, which I liked despite it being somewhat Microsoft-centric), feels compelled to clarify his motivations for turning away from the Microsoft software ecosystem and start [...]

I’ve been in varying amounts of pain since the fall. That was nearly two months ago now. Cracked ribs are meant to heal in 4-6 weeks. And I think they did. The ribs themselves seem fine. It’s my back that’s the problem. My sister’s some sort of athletic therapist or something. To be honest, I [...]

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn came out last week and I finally decided to pick up another harddrive (they’re cheap, after all) and dual boot Ubuntu. I’ve been pondering the switch for a while. I have to use Windows all day at work, and I’ve never been overly fond of it. Sure, it’s not quite as offensive [...]

The tree in front of my house (a Norway Maple, I discovered today) is not a happy tree. It had tar spots on the leaves last year, worse than the year before. Some of the bark started falling off over the winter. I noticed a woodpecker having at it in the early spring (I have [...]