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  • Brain Dump

    Brain Dump

    I have a lot of things floating around in my head taking up space, so I went to do a “brain dump” the other day and I realized after staring at a blank sheet of paper for about five minutes… that my brain dump is so huge I almost need to start with the categories

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  • Trying to reason with hurricane season

    Trying to reason with hurricane season

    With apologies to Jimmy Buffett, you can’t. End of song! So much shorter than the original! It seemed like Helene took a full week to get to us; Milton will be here in three days. Is that good or bad? Depends. Faster storms leave faster. But slower storms have more time to get worn out

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  • I’m sorry, Citibank, you want me to what?

    I’m sorry, Citibank, you want me to what?

    Scene One: me, on the Citibank website, September 20th, going to pay my credit card. *sees five transactions that posted on the 18th that I didn’t make* *sees that two of them have been refunded* *tries to dispute the other three online* *am told I have to call* ***** Scene Two: me, on the phone

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  • Back to life, back to reality

    Back to life, back to reality

    I just looked up the lyrics of that song, to see if there was a good stanza or something I could use in this post, something to tie my topic and title together, and… the lyrics of that song are… well, they’re mostly just “back to life, back to reality” repeated about twelve times in

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  • Does anyone even read travel blogs?

    Does anyone even read travel blogs?

    I was looking at my unpublished drafts, and I have five or six started-but-never-finished unpublished blog posts about my trip to Ireland in April. And I only barely blogged about Scotland – just enough to say how sick I was. I did post most of the Scotland photos on Facebook… I posted some of the

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  • I’m so tired

    I’m so tired

    I’m not sure if this will be a “Monday Musings” post or a “Rants” post but here we go… I’m not tired as in “I need a nap” (although….). I’m tired of …. well, some of it’s bullshittery, some of it’s fuckery, some of it’s pigheadedness. Here’s a top ten list of things I’m currently

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