personal

Fall Time.

We’ve now reached the interesting crossroads of my year: September, especially the tail end of September, is the worst part of the year almost without fail. Work gets beyond stressful, the school year has started and routines are changing, it just stinks. But then there’s hope: it might not be a hundred degrees in the …

Dashcams

I’m about at the point of buying a dashcam for both my and the wife’s cars. Over the years we’ve both logged a lot of hours behind the wheel and it just seems to me that the ability to drive has seriously diminished lately. This isn’t necessarily a generational thing, though young people do stick …

Lent 2019

Despite not being Catholic, each year for the last several I have given something up for Lent. Sometimes more than one something lately. This year I plan to eclipse my previous attempts: in addition to going without alcohol or tobacco (the occasional cigar, as required of someone who writes noir-style hardboiled fiction), and giving up …