I had a strange dream last night, and I’ve felt strangely gutted by it for much of the day, so I’m going to write about it. The dream begins in a city neighborhood. It’s a hilly neighborhood, as I walk uphill past rowhomes that were built probably around 1920 based on the architecture. At oneContinue reading “An Unsettling Dream”
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Travels with Google Navigate
I will give Google Navigate this much. It told me, when I left Philcon that it would take two hours and fifteen minutes to get home, and it took me two hours and ten minutes. After the insanity that was the trip from York to Cherry Hill on Friday (where it told me it wouldContinue reading “Travels with Google Navigate”
Wanderlust
I felt like playing hooky from work this morning. As I drove down 83, somewhere between Exits 31 and 27, Carbon Leaf’s “Blue Ridge Laughing” playing on the Beetle’s CD player (from a road trip mixtape I made a few weeks ago), the sun broke through the wispy clouds, and the fog and the mistContinue reading “Wanderlust”
Scenes from a Road Trip
For reasons I’m disinclined to share, I went on a somewhat unplanned road trip this weekend to Virginia. I use the word “somewhat” as I had a few hours to prepare for it, so I burned a few mix CDs for the drive and planned a trip that would take me through Richmond because IContinue reading “Scenes from a Road Trip”
A Flower for the Beetle
I am a super-genius! I’ve had a dashboard flower in my Beetles since 2005. In the first one, I didn’t have the official Volkswagen vase, so I ran the stem through the hole, hooked it inside the mount for the vase, then stabilized it with little plastic shopper cards. The new Beetle came with theContinue reading “A Flower for the Beetle”
Questions About Me
On Facebook the last few days I’ve seen a personal survey of sorts circulating, who you are, what you like, that sort of thing. The survey, however, showed all the hallmarks of having been copied and added to as it propogated across social media as the spellings were inconsistent (showing both American and British spelling),Continue reading “Questions About Me”
Leaving EB Games, Ten Years On
Ten years ago today, August 20th, 2006, was my last day with EB Games. I could have told you without looking when my first day was — June 30, 1999 — but not the last. It wasn’t burned into my memory in the same way. I knew it was coming up, maybe it was evenContinue reading “Leaving EB Games, Ten Years On”
Five Years After My Grandmother’s Funeral…
Facebook reminded me this morning that five years ago today was my grandmother’s funeral, just as on Saturday morning it reminded me that she passed away a hemidecade ago. I knew this was coming; a few weeks ago Facebook showed me pictures from Shore Leave 2011 (including John de Lancie and an experiment in makingContinue reading “Five Years After My Grandmother’s Funeral…”
An Irish Weekend
Over the weekend, I went to the Annapolis Irish Festival, an annual event held near Annapolis in mid-July. This year, the scheduling caused some agony as the festival coincided with Shore Leave‘s weekend, back in July for the first time in a hemidecade, and Carbon Leaf, who are taking a sabbatical year, were playing aContinue reading “An Irish Weekend”
When the World Overwhelms…
Several years ago, one afternoon at work, I was reading an article on The Guardian about the Arab Spring and the violent reprisals various Arab governments launched, especially in Syria. The specificity of the memory — where I was, what it was about — is striking. What followed has stayed with me. There was aContinue reading “When the World Overwhelms…”