Journal

My advice to InfraredStudio Go-fundme

So this company asked me to help promote their gofundme, which we’re happy to do, promoting…

America’s Love Affair With Spices

Tribute to My Mom

July 5th, 2016

Today will mark the 26th anniversary of my mother’s death. This is always the toughest…

Two Guys Hang out Building a Bench

This week, Lydon and I hung out while he built his new workbench that he bought at Sam’s Club. He…

The difficulties women have finding jobs in IT

In December of last year (2015), I had to lay off two employees. We had expected the loss of one customer (they wanted to migrate to a single system and while my day-job’s software is awesome in many ways, we don’t support all types of insurance so…

Weekly Success List

If you’re like me, you often berate yourself for what you didn’t get accomplished any given week. Even what you “do” accomplish, you might second guess yourself. I feel like I ride the edge of depression constantly, only veering upwards of that black pit of despair by constantly reiterating to…

Gaming as Adults

Running a regular gaming grou p is hard. We’re all adults, we’re all working, most of us are going to college.

Yes kids, anyone who tells you that if you quit, you’ll never go back isn’t necessarily right. On the other hand, you don’t want to be in your late 30s going to…

My comic book childhood

My father was huge into comics. He lied about his age and became a waiter at the age of 16. If you aren’t familiar with how tips work in tourist towns, waiters usually make good money in a city like Las Vegas, and my dad was no exception.

Skeeball

Skee Ball

Today I was reading a story by Wil Wheaton called “Fireworks” in his book “Just a Geek”, and this memory…

Vlog the 1st: Richard’s Rants

I post my first vlog!

The lighting was crap, but Anna fixed it as well as she could in post. It was fun and apparently we both don’t mind making fun of me here and there. ;)