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A Long Weekend’s Worth of Stuff

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This entry is part 89 of 100 in the series Today's Tidbits

This past weekend, a whole lot of people I know were down in Atlanta for DragonCon. It’s an event I’ve been numerous times before and is always an amazing adventure.

I haven’t been there in four years now.

Finances and schedules have kept me from being able to make it back.

This year a bunch of people I know went for the first time.

I’m amazingly sad that I couldn’t be part of that.

Bringing new people along was always a huge joy. Watching them acclimate to the distinct atmosphere of a major gathering of nerds, geeks, freaks, and general fandom weirdness rekindles all sorts of memories and feelings of my own first time.

A lot of other people I know were off on other holiday-weekend-related adventures. End of summer trips, weddings, that one last excursion to the beach, the renaissance fair. I don’t really have a vacation. I have a day off I don’t get paid for. I haven’t had a real vacation… since DragonCon 2010.

Hopefully, I’ll be able to say differently some time before the next decade is over.

Hopefully.

Until then, I just keep pushing onward.

Since that’s the most sensible thing to do.

Lots of feed items spanning a wide variety of entertainment and interest. (Not quite as wide as, say DragonCon, but still a nice collection of stuff, if I do say so myself.)

Here’s the feed.

Tesla Awesomeness, Classic American Musicals, Good Superhero News, and Homestar

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I was moderately successful in the music theme I wanted to have going today. I didn’t get to quite as many posts about it as I’d wanted, but that was mostly due to not having time to hunt through my feed for more interesting stuff to put between the clips.

I’d sure like to know what’s generating all the heat in this apartment. It’s near 80 degrees in here… it’s in the mid-60s outside… and the A/C (which was on because it was raining outside, which kind of precludes leaving the windows open) can’t even keep up. The oven’s off. Everything else generates negligible amounts of heat (definitely not enough to warm up the room this much–it wasn’t happening in the fall or winter).

Pretty sure that leaves the HVAC unit itself as what’s generating more heat than it can handle.

That’s just… problematic.

Guess I’ll have to put in a call about that sometime soon. Maybe next week when the summer weather plays hide-and-seek with us.

Anyway, there’s a bunch of music in the feed… go enjoy it.

Internet Shenanigans, Poverty, Artful Words, Militarized Police, and the Unauthorized Saved by the Bell

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This entry is part 49 of 100 in the series Today's Tidbits

Totally crazy day at the office. No real time for anything other than meetings and nose-to-the-grindstone work. Mostly due to projects falling off schedule… due to people getting us stuff late and technology conspiring against me.

Oh, and did I mention that I didn’t even come close to getting to sleep on time last night… in part because of a totally awesome thunderstorm that powered through the area? Fantastic lightning. Some of it was even green. Spooky cool.

Of course there was an extra-early meeting today. And I ended up working late just so I could actually cross something off of my list.

My brain is kind of fried and I’ve got one more day of this dog and pony show before the weekend hits.

Here’s what passes for the feed today…