I would have thought…

…they were more prolific.  But I guess that’s what happens when the only talented member of your band leaves to chew on the greener grass. Or to shake the tree.  Or to look into yor eyes. Or to live his big life. (OK, enough)
Anyway, haven’t been able to get the Genesis stuff out of my [...]

Less a eureka…

…than a (maybe) interesting observation.
After telling Sylvia yesterday that I had had a good idea about MSG4 I wracked my head for the rest of the night and into today trying to remember what it was.  Then, while I was drinking my 7th cup of lapsang souchong, it hit me – and I was immediately [...]

Remind me to always…

…pay my taxes, because these audits do nothing but chap my hide.  And I’m not even the one getting audited, the Foundation is.  Nothing bad or shady or anything like that, just the normal annual stuff that goes along with getting much of your funding from donors and trusts.  But it means that all the [...]

No rest for…

…the terminally muddled.
Of all the times for our pal the puzzler to leap back onto the scene.  Of course it’s the very evening that I get a big new personal case with a short turnaround time.  And I really want to try to figure out what I sincerely hope is another anagram. But it is [...]

That voice again…

…and it’s still not telling me anything useful.  Thanks for the comment, Mort. Wish I was feeling warmer myself.  Low of around 30 today, and I am just about over it.  Why the heck can’t I get assigned to check into giant catfish in the Gulf of Mexico? You’d think with all the toxic runoff [...]

My Google mojo…

…done fell out of the canoe. Or whatever it is they paddle around in down on the bayou.
That only makes slightly less sense than it probably should, so perhaps I’m feeling better. Amend that. I am definitely feeling better. Best I’ve felt in over a week. Pretty much back to, if not [...]

Lazarus, come forth…

…(silence, followed by sound of body hitting floor next to bed)
Lazarus, crawl to the fridge and get a glass of water!
Maybe.  If I try really hard.  I think I am feeling about 50%, which is 75% better than the last estimate, but I think I can see the corner that I need to turn up [...]

Let’s move on…

…shall we.
Whew, what an “interesting” time it has been.   Probably enough has been said to the right people, so…back to work.  It’s a shame I’m so tired, though, cause I may have made a connection.
Absolutely did not realize how long it had been since I had the chance to think at all about OC:0701.  The [...]

The hinterlands…

…of Dayton were just the setup of a twisted experiment in human endurance visited upon me by my nameless, faceless superiors. (A little melodramatic, especially since he has a name and I know what it is – and I don’t even know where that faceless came from.)  First the mind-numbing tedium, then the anticlimax of  [...]

Off the road again…

…so tired I can’t even come up with a way to elipsize that one.
Whew, what a week!  If I had wanted to camp out, eat bad food, wear camouflage, and chase people through the woods I would have done what several of my friends did upon graduating from high school; I would have taken up [...]

Maybe the change…

…of scenery is good for my brain.
Posting this here real quick since my RSA token is in the car and I can’t VPN to the Foundation without it.  But I didn’t want to forget so…
Had a couple minutes here at the Kava House, so I decided to take a look at the spearmint stuff. With [...]

With a week like that…

…who needs months.
With all the activity and the report writing in preparation for the board meeting it seems like the week flew by on the Concorde. Not to mention the New Years (lack of) festivities. With all the hubbub and the (self-inflicted) drama on 0702 and the new assignment up in Dayton next [...]

Desire…

…and Despair. I guess despair is more than a little heavy-handed, but I really did want to go down there. I’m almost positive I know which of the sites it would be, too. Another gut feeling, mostly, but I’m starting to think there is something to that. Sometimes. Maybe it’s [...]

Destruction…

…is going on outside my window.  So early in the evening, and already the firecrackers and rockets are exploding hither and yon.  I half expect one of them to burst into the shape of a great red dragon and come swooping in over the top of my little apartment.  I suppose I should resign myself [...]

The flying blue-green words…

…are kinda spooky, but the more I think about that PSA that Isabelle developed for OC:0702 the more I think the idea might have some merit.  As successful as OC’s been so far, I think the site would benefit even more from more people.
I asked her why she didn’t do a PSA for OC:0701 and [...]