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Reflecting on 2020
We did it! We made it to the end of the year. And what a shitty year it was for pretty much everyone. I’m having a hard time reflecting on the past year. My brain just doesn’t want to focus … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Pets, Writing
Tagged anxiety, apartment stuff, career, covid-19, dayjob, depression, exercise, gradschool, housing, jabberwocky, mental health, new years, pandemic, podcast, shivering deeps, work, writing
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Looking Back on 2019
Hey, it’s the new year! Goodie gee. I didn’t have work off between Christmas and New Year’s this year, which is a shame because that’s usually my self-reflection time and I like it. Or I get all weird during it. … Continue reading
Climate Strike (Anticapitalist Remix) Days 0 and 1
Hey everyone, it’s climate strike time! Or Earthstrike. Or whatever you want to call it. Today was the big event in the United States, and lots of people walked out all over the country, from their jobs and their schools … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Pets, Politics
Tagged capitalism, climate change, environment, jabberwocky, jerry, money, pets, politics, protest, work
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10 Minutes
I have ten minutes left in the last break of my work day, and I don’t know if I’m going to have any time to blog or write after work today. So here we are, in the imperiled lands of … Continue reading
Office Jobs Are Weird
Having an office job is weird. And I’m only like a week and a half in! “But Ian, haven’t you worked in an office before?” Not really. If you go over my extensive (and vaguely entertaining) employment history, none of … Continue reading
Unfortunate Actions that Cannons Do
*sigh* It really hasn’t been a banner week so far. Things started off on Monday with the guy I’ve been seeing (and having a very good time with) breaking things off with me while he works on some personal stuff. … Continue reading
Broken Buttons
Today I managed to break one of the company trucks by bracing my foot wrong as we went through an intersection. Turns out a certain vintage of Ford Rangers has a device in the passenger footwell that detects if you … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Writing
Tagged construction, creativity, jobs, personal, work, writing
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Dirty Dungeons
I’ve spent a good chunk of the last two days down in a crawlspace underneath a house we’re working on, installing seismic upgrades. Which are steel plates attached to important joints in a house’s construction to stop it from shifting/shearing/falling … Continue reading
Posted in Tabletop RPGs
Tagged dungeons, dungeonsanddragons, jobs, runningtheworldmachine, tabletoprpgs, work
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Week Wrap-up: 16 April 2018 – 22 April 2018
Posted a little late! This last week was pretty good! I mean, I didn’t sleep enough, at all, but other than that… Started volunteering at the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library and had a good time my first two … Continue reading
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Tagged beer, dating, fallout4, videogames, volunteering, weekwrapup, work, writing
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It All Feels Like A Lot Right Now
It’s been a bit. So a bunch of updates, in no particular order: Thank Fuck, Class is Done I just finished a YA Materials class that, in total, was a waste of time. I would have been better off with … Continue reading