Those Drawn With a Very Fine Camel's Hair Brush
A Personal Interest Rubric
Have you ever lost something and then spent the next ten years trying to find it?
I have. It’s an essay about the fall of the Roman Empire. Did the average citizen know the empire had fallen?
No. It took them about 200 years to figure out, but you’re just going to have to trust me because all the kings horses and all the king’s men haven’t been able to find that paper again.
2024 Year End Battle Report
Every December my partner and I make the drive down to the Warhammer Citadel in Grapevine, TX to play our end-of-year game. If you’re a fan of Warhammer but have never been to the Citadel, imagine a Games Workshop or Warhammer store that’s also a coffee shop. It’s the closest thing we have in North America to Warhammer World, but it’s closer to a normal Warhammer store than that statement might imply.
A few months ago I looked back at my first 30 days of tracking 100% of my time. Now I have about a quarter’s worth of data, and some patterns have emerged.
I’d like to talk a bit about my favorite Massively Multiplayer Online PvP Game: eBay
The Nature of Things (Burmese Classical Poems)
Often a man suffers destruction
In order that another man
Might enjoy well-being.
Such is the nature of things!A courtier’s satisfaction.
In enjoying kingly confidences
In golden palaces
And a King’ s own good fortune
Are merely bubbles
On the surface of a vast ocean
Momentary and evanescent.If dictated by commiseration
I were to be released
And freed from execution
I would not escape Death.
Inseparable am I from Karma
All sentient beings
Being subject to dissolution.
Establishing a baseline for reviewing things can be difficult.
I’ve spent the last several weeks using Toggl to track 100% of my time, and the results have been interesting.
Banh Mi Burgers
Important Note #1 - This is a draft recipe. I made it somewhat improvisationally, so the amounts are in many cases a rough guess. Please don’t consider this a bulletproof tested recipe.
Important Note #2 - I tend to think of most larger recipes as a series of smaller recipes that get assembled, so this is presented in that way.
I had the great fortune to spend the last week or so sailing along Alaska’s inside passage on the NCL Jewel. Being the kind of person that I am, I gave myself a side-quest on day one: eat at and review each of the on-board dining options. I mostly succeeded, with two notable exceptions. It turns out a reservation at the Teppanyaki restaurant is incredibly difficult to score, and I simply ran out of time for the steakhouse.