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Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2025 Look-Back

Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2025 Look-Back

Another year, another blog look-back (here are the look-backs from the previous years: 2024, 2023). This year things have been a bit thin around here on daymooncrowmoon.com (which is particularly too bad, considering that this year’s Serial Steam-of-Consciousness Story, ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About’ is my favorite of the SSCSs posted so far, and then I wasn’t around much with proper posts to give it much company, alas, alack!). This thinness would be easy to blame on the fact…

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Hello from [Various]

Hello from [Various]

Hello, whoever’s out there. I’m sorry it’s been so long since I’ve put up a proper post.  This spring, and the lead-up to this spring, has been rather a lot.  And there’s a good chance there will be another long gap between this post and whatever goes up after it. To paint a general picture, I will just say that between last November and now I have:  1) Surmounted the hurdles of two very large projects, one for work and…

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20 Questions as of January 15th 2025

20 Questions as of January 15th 2025

Although I’d like to and intend to post something new and regular-blog-post-like to this blog on a semi-regular basis, sometimes I go for stretches where I seem to have lost access to any extra brain cells, especially the ones needed for coming up with anything even vaguely resembling ‘new.’  In fact, lately, I’ve been hovering near the borders of just such a state.  And so, I’ve come up with an idea!  What sort of prompt might require not very many…

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fly-by-posting: 2024/09/25

fly-by-posting: 2024/09/25

My brain is like a bureaucracy. Sometimes it can take a very long time for new or unexpected inputs to work their way through the system. Not because they’re not important, but because there may be bureaucratic structural reorganization that needs to happen before movement can occur. And then ditto if you want some action output.

fly-by-posting: 2024/08/02

fly-by-posting: 2024/08/02

Guess what amazing and rare thing I did today? I properly indexed and labeled the lab book I finished with a few days ago. This is a task I haven’t managed in over 2 years (and I’ve finished with 8 lab books in that time period). Feeling hopeful there really is a Light at the end of the Burnout.

Light at the End of the Burnout

Light at the End of the Burnout

So, here’s a crazy thing.  I’m writing this on a Wednesday, and as I left work today I was actually feeling a little excited about my job. This shouldn’t be a crazy thing.  I work in Astronomy, as a Scientific Programmer, which is a combination of two things I really, really like and am good at.  However, for a variety of reasons, not all of them to do directly with my job (you can probably guess one or two), the…

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My Brain is Nauseous* – Can I Go Home Now?

My Brain is Nauseous* – Can I Go Home Now?

(*) Well, dang.  It looks like mental fatigue is a beast I still haven’t licked yet. That’s the thought that crossed my mind last year after I’d been hammering away at assembling a formal code update and found myself (once again) feeling extremely mentally rundown. Except that ‘mental fatigue’ and ‘run down’ really don’t cover what it feels like, and, taking another look at that sentiment from this perspective of a year later, there’s also this whole extra layer of…

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fly-by-posting 2023/12/22

fly-by-posting 2023/12/22

I think my imagination space is getting too crowded. Not with cool ideas, but with just too many types of things. Like, I’ll think “What’s a cool story idea I can noodle on today?” And then, “Oh – an item from my housekeeping list. That is not what I was reaching for.”