Author: Kier

  • So… I bought a house…

    So… I bought a house…

    I’ve been living here for five years now. My lease was coming up for renewal in August, so I was going to ask for another extended lease and ask about an option to buy at the end of that. The properly manager emailed me as I was getting ready to send that suggestion. “Your lease…

  • State of the Empire, 2019

    State of the Empire, 2019

    Doing some digital housekeeping, as is common this time of year… I own 41 domain names.2 of them need to be transferred to someone else (eventually).9 of them are kind of active (they have webspace allocated to them).2 of them have been updated in the past year with actual content. (Posts back in January of…

  • The State of the Empire

    The State of the Empire

    The last time I did one of these was back in 2011. Back then there was a lot of wild change going on. That wild change got a little out of hand and, well, it really hasn’t been worth looking at the state of the good ol’ Durosian Empire since then. It’s pretty much been…

  • Forty Days In, Not Much to Show

    Forty Days In, Not Much to Show

    So, yeah, forty days ago there were 100 days left in the year. I said back then I had a bunch of things I wanted to accomplish. Some of it I wanted to have done by Halloween. Well… I’ve gotten about half of it done. No, that doesn’t mean that I’ve actually finished anything. I’ve…

  • In a World of Bad News

    In a World of Bad News

    I could go on and on about how utterly crappy today was. Waking up to the news of the horribleness of that mass shooting in Vegas. Ending the day with the news of Tom Petty possibly (probably) being dead (or soon to be). All the other stuff that’s been chipping away at any chipper mood…