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An outing with Mother

I am 32 years old and a man, and I think that outings with my mother are just about the best thing ever. This is not just because they usually involve her supplying my needs for food and/or caffeine. She’s just fun to hang out with, and she likes to go cool places.

That’s “cool” as [...]

Okay, then.

Here we go–for real this time, I think.

I’m sitting at my desk on the second floor of the back half of a nondescript building in a nondescript industrial park in a suburb of Santa Barbara, California. It’s the start of my second day of work here. Nothing was accomplished the first day, yesterday, except for [...]

The Next Thing

I’ve announced here that I’ll be leaving Alaska to stop briefly in California before making my way up the coast to Washington for some longer duration.

All of that is still true except for the “longer duration” part.

Once again, the plans that I considered well-laid have been elbowed to one side by the same mysterious force [...]

I am going to scream

Scratch that–I’ve been screaming. Literally. Screaming out loud.

My employers for the summer transferred a last payment to me last night via PayPal. I instructed PayPal to deposit most of the money into my checking account, but since that transaction won’t clear for a few days, I left a little money in the PayPal account itself, [...]

Self-portrait

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The North has called, and I have answered.

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Burbstock fail

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