Today at work I got to enjoy another round of “Operation: Donkey Punch”, a term I picked up from my hacking friends. It’s where, after fighting with a device to make a change through standard means and failing repeatedly because the standard means are absurdly dumb or limited by policy or design, you tear it …
Author Archives: Shawn
Next Verse
My sixteen days of holiday vacation come to a close tomorrow on Monday morning. I return to work. I’m not ready for it. I keep thinking back to the previous two weeks and pondering what I did versus what I expected, fully expecting to give report of my time off at the water cooler or …
Sustain
Not writing a retrospective on 2025. But I will go on to say that this has been a difficult year, what with the stressors and declining health and loss of hope and prospect for the future. I’ve locked into a bad rhythm. There has to be more than four on the floor and snare on …
Metrospective
Given the nature of things in the Year of Our Lard 2025, I’m not offering much by way of personal retrospection on the prior year. It’s been a bit much. So very much. However, this year has me on a massive music acquisition kick. By my count, I’ve picked up 217 albums this year, which …
Bestanden
Two-week-old news by now, but I share here. My final grade in Deutsch III is a mid-B, 84.8%. I still feel like Professorin was being too kind to me in her scoring, because I still don’t trust my competence. I feel like I did terribly. Scores aren’t everything. I’m not fluent. Throughout the latter half …