• Extra crispy cookie aside, I’m surviving.

    I am officially on vacation now for the next week. It feels great to be able to cash in some PTO – I’ve changed jobs so frequently, I rarely accrue enough to use it before I’m onto the next gig – but hopefully, I stop that cycle with CheeseGov. The last time I had an

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  • 15 years of stick-to-itiveness.

    My blog is 15 years old today. As hard as it is to believe I’ve been writing that long, the really astounding part is, before signing up for WorePress, I wrote elsewhere for eight years. Which means I’ve been blogging for 42% of my life. Holy cow. I had all kinds of fun ideas to

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  • A Tom Hanks moment with scrambled eggs.

    You know that scene in Castaway, where Tom Hanks starts prancing around like a madman, beating his chest and proudly exclaiming, “I have made fire!“? I had a moment like that this morning. But instead of fire, it was scrambled eggs. I was up dark and early, when my alarm woke me at 3:15 a.m.

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  • I am The Dark Cloud!

    One of my favorite icebreaker questions has always been, If you could have one superpower, what would it be? Flying is always a popular answer. Teleportation, telekinesis, telepathy, and televangelism (but only if you’re Billy Graham) always get a lot of votes, too. My answer was always different: I wanted to be able to control

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  • It’s dirty work, but somebody’s gotta stream it.

    Right on cue, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. Not because of parties for hosting and marshmallows for toasting, but rather, Spotify Wrapped. If you’re a music lover like I am, you eagerly await the results of your year-end Spotify recap with barely concealed glee. Top song, total minutes listened, favorite artist, it’s

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  • The holidays are a really big dill.

    We have a couple of very clingy cats. Which is better than having aloof ones, I suppose…but it gets to be a bit much sometimes. If five minutes pass after sitting down without Laverne or Shirley (often both) jumping onto our laps, curling up, and catching some zzzs, it’s a miracle. This isn’t an issue

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