So, end of 2019 I was coming apart a little. Lots of little things that I wasn’t being resilient about, and the big thing of empty nesting and figuring out what the next big thing is. Starting therapy helped me figure out how to organize my thoughts around all this stress, and gave me some …
Monthly Archives: January 2020
Digital clocks are harder than you think
Almost 10 years ago, Art and I took on an electronics project. We built a digital clock (okay, it was mostly Art; I helped with getting the wiring in the right places, but the design was all him). It seemed to me like a lot of chips for such an everyday thing. But I just …
Fist of Besilmer
So, now that everybody has their patch, I can post about this! Art had learned to play D&D at an afterschool program in middle school in the spring of 2015, and he’d been keeping up at our local game shop, the Wyvern’s Tale, over the summer. I was excited when he invited me to come, …
D&D&S
I’m DMing a Spelljammer campaign converted to 5e. After half a year playing the party finally has a decent ship and are taking on their first jobs as a delivery service. Which is delivering 5 tons of shrimp cocktail to a casino asteroid. The halfling mafia boss on Rock of Bral hired them to do …
Schell Stereo Cabinet update
The Sony stereo receiver is conking out. The right channel is going all mucky. It’s 15 years old or so, so I guess it’s no surprise. Before I order a $150 unit off Amazon that I can’t really afford right now, maybe I’ll hit Goodwill and a pawn shop or two. Stereo units are hard …
Waiting for Peri
Much as I have enjoyed the new Steven Universe Future and its rejection of the “happily ever after” narrative, I have mourned the lack of Peridot, my favorite Crystal Gem. Okay, not just my favorite, but the one I most identify with. If you take the Diamond Authority as a stand-in for patriarchy and its …
Ununited Methodist Church
I was a Methodist from 1996-2006 or so. Back before any of the mainline denominations were really officially ordaining or marrying LGBTQ folx. We worked to try to change that, but conservatives poured a lot of money into changing the UMC from a social gospel church into something more authority-driven. Between those changes and generally …
Free to Be…
Elizabeth grew up with this record as a little girl. I never heard it till I was in high school–I think it was Suzanne who spearheaded its resurgence. I listened to it a lot as a teenager, and for a teenage to listen to a dumb kids’ album, it must have been revelatory. Gender roles …