So a couple of weekends ago, I went up to 'upstate New York' for a long weekend visiting Patti and Peter. That's in quotes, because they live in Rhinebeck, which is only two hours north of here and not really upstate New York, but to we city dwellers, it's all 'upstate New York'. Had a …
Current TV Rotation
OK, let's see. I finished the latest season of Drag Race All Stars. I skipped the finale, I already knew who won (I like her) and I don't care about lipsync battles. I will say that putting Silky Nutmeg Ganache on my TV again was as irritating as I expected it to be. Just started …
Viewing Parties
Just random stuff up to which I have been over the last few weeks. My buddy Renee had volunteered me to host a Jaws viewing party. I was all for that. I had seen it when it was first out, when I was twelve. I'd already read the book. (on the beach at Rehoboth) Anyway, …
Weird f*ckin day
I worked from home yesterday, but that doesn't have much to do with anything. There's a lot going on in my job right now (unusual) and I'm finding that I'm getting wildly different projects mixed up with each other, which is not helpful. Since I'm leaving at the end of the year, I'm doing knowledge …
Retirement
So, it's official. HR has been notified. My supervisor, his boss and our VP have been notified. My project lead and team have been notified. And my reporting team as well. I'm retiring at the end of the year! Actually, official date is Dec 4th, which is the end of the week after Thanksgiving. This …
Every Brilliant Thing
The one-person show Every Brilliant Thing, which was brought to Broadway this season as a vehicle for Daniel Radcliffe (who was, by all reports, amazing) has continued on, replacing Radcliffe with Mariska Hargitay and now with Tracee Ellis Ross, who will be closing the show this weekend. It had sounded like an intriguing idea - …
BB66
As anyone knows who is privileged enough (*koffkoff*) to have me whine at them, I spent quite a lot of planning and effort gearing myself up for an early-in-the-year audition for a production of Sweeney Todd - and then didn't get cast. But almost immediately, while I was doing a concert of Trial by Jury …
New Hope and Princeton
So, this weekend was the Plan B version of the "get out of town" weekend to Connecticut that had gotten torpedoed. I decided to do an overnight in New Hope, PA - hadn't been in many years, had never been to Lambertville even though it's a five-minute walk across a bridge (honestly, last times I …
Get to it
I do spend an awful lot of my life thinking, "oh, I should take a power walk every day" or "I should practice the piano every day" or "I should do some of the organization projects in the random tote bags in the utility room every weekend" or whatever. And of course it never gets …
Semiquincentennial
I was 11 years old for the Bicentennial and, oddly enough, was out of the country for the actual day. We were taking a typically weird Peterson vacation. Mom was in South America for work, and Dad joined her in Bolivia (I think). Sam and I stayed with family friends, then flew (by ourselves, which …
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