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I wake up. Not groggy, not tired, but alert. Something woke me up. I'm getting less sleep these days. Probably the weather changing; it rains at odd times, sometimes at night. The thunder wakes me up too. And sometimes passing vehicles that sound just a little different from the regular traffic. Ha, guess I'm just a light sleeper. I get up,...

There was a time when software (and games! Games are just software for fun!) were distributed on DVD. A physical disk that you would insert into your system to load up software and install. This was the 2000's, when computers prided themselves on being personal computation devices. A Chromebook was a curiosity at the time, promising to run most...

I was just in the washroom with the CEO of our company in the adjacent stall. We had an awkward eye contact while we both were washing hands. Should I address it with him directly ...? Firstly, I feel like it was his fault for coming to this washroom, this is mine. Ours I mean, the plebians'. Like, don't they have a separate hoity-toity one...

On a sweltering August evening, I gathered a bunch of friends for dinner. It had been a while since we'd met, so there was a backlog of updates and stories to catch up on. We settled in and placed our orders. I opted for a cottage cheese steak. As the food arrived, we traded "gossip" - interesting stories from our recent past, ranging from mildly...

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