One year ago I began working full time creating software for live show control. I say creating, but since it’s my company and I’m the only employee, “creating” really means “coding, supporting, marketing, documenting, designing, testing, managing” and any other list of business verbs you might want to apply.

I love it. If you’d [...]

I know this guy from college, name of Robi Mookerjee. I hope that in some way I can claim he’s my friend, although I’m not sure I deserve that honor for the small ways I’ve been connected to him over the years.

Robi is a unique human being. It’s really hard to describe the [...]

And I’m an uncle!

Here’s proof.

Here we are at the end. Hey! Neat. It only took me, what, two months since our return to finish my last blahg entry about our trip to Russia. I appear to be following a logarithmic posting scale.

I’ll keep this one short. Partly because the memories are starting to fade, [...]

You thought I forgot, didn’t you? Nah, I’ve just been busy. Self-employment has a way of occupying more hours than normal employment. But I have it here, right on my to-do list: “FINISH RUSSIA BLOG”. So let’s take a dip into day eight.

In referring to my notes for day eight, [...]

One of the top concerns of international travel, right after finding free toilets in your moment of need, is food. Low blood sugar and unfamiliar cities don’t mix. One moment you’re winding your long, hungry way toward the Guide Book’s top-rated breakfast cafe, the next moment you’re standing in an empty cobblestone street [...]

We’re home.

It takes some getting used to; “The people around me can understand what I’m saying? For real?”

I’m still waking up at 4 in the morning and going to bed before sunset, but we’ve more or less recovered. As such: on to St. Petersburg.

We arrived early into a beautiful morning. St. [...]

Today’s our last day; we leave tomorrow morning.

So sad.

I’ve only made it through half our time here on the ol’ blag, but I’ll get to the rest eventually. Just not while we’re here.

In the meantime: NO PRANCING.

(Image credit for prancing man: Andrew’s sister Jane. I never managed to grab this shot while in [...]

To properly capture the full arc of day five, we have to begin before dawn.

Russian train cars are charming in many ways, but climate control is not one of those ways. (Also septic disposal, which is accomplished by simply flushing the toilet onto the tracks—but I digress.) Some cars feature a top window [...]