Jinked

In my complex we have an on-site laundry facility, but it’s a little wacky in that you have to go out of the building to access it. It always makes doing laundry in the wintertime a big deal because it means I have to put on shoes, bundle up, carry my bag of laundry and detergent and quarters outside just to get to the room [...]

So, these past couple months my freelance jobs have sort of waned. No, that’s not right. They’ve pretty much dried up. I now understand the saying, “When it rains, it pours,” because I am out of the swampland of work I had in the summer, and I am now experiencing the drought of winter. And so to find means in which to pay my bills, [...]

As a result of not having much extra money due to my not-so-starving artist lifestyle and sheer laziness, I won’t be attending Blog Indiana this year. Come to think of it, I didn’t attend last year either. I was there for its first annual run back in 2008 when my former employer sent me, and that’s all so far. I met a lot of great [...]

Tonight a good handful of us had a gathering of awesome at El Salto in Chesterton. Some of the fabulous people in attendance included @saan1911, @FoodieMamaNWI, @swedishpancake, @digitalbart, @TV_MA, @2ndwifeanne and other @grossbauer peeps. We arrived at 4:30 on a Thursday. KEEP THAT IN MIND. Not many people. We took our seats, ordered drinks (Blue Moon baby!) and waited. And waited. And waited. Poor Sarah [...]

One of the projects I’m undertaking with my contract work is building a blog that is managed with WordPress. Since 3.0′s unveiling, I haven’t really messed with any of the new stuff or realized the extent of the changes. Just looking at the new default theme TwentyTen was enough to boggle my mind, and not in a “oh, that’s so cool” kind of way. It’s [...]