Michael Lucas recently shared an article on the Fediverse entitled Business Musings: Comparison is the Thief of Joy that resonated with me. I've been working with comparing myself to others and finding myself lacking for a while now, but having a short and effective phrase to remind me of this …
read moreA moment of perfect beauty
Today I had a moment of perfect beauty. I was getting an oil change for JoDee's car. I wasn't sure if it was going to go over half-an-hour so I asked my dad to come pick me up. Well, situations happened and I called my dad. He forgot. That wasn't …
read moreWorking from home; anecdotes from a strange career
It's no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic changed how people work. Many folks got their first taste of Work-From-Home when they couldn't go into an office. Unfortunately now we're starting to see articles on places wondering if we should go back into offices or asking what we're missing by not …
read moreRole playing games vs. board games
I've been thinking deeply about the difference between board games and role playing games. There are some games that have been blending the lines between board games and role playing games (and vice versa) that I've been exploring what the distinctions between the two are.
(Note: this isn't about saying …
read moreGrief
(Content warning: this post talks about grief through the lens of death and dying. It also talks about the Free Software Foundation, but also touches on other communities that have fallen by the wayside or I have otherwise left.)
This past weekend I was half-participating in the Libreplanet 2021 conference …
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