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Dog & Pony Show

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Lexington, Kentucky. I like horses and dogs. Thus the name. Follow me for pet photography and asinine anecdotes.

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Dog and Pony ShowOct 21, 2026

My employer asked for honest feedback

At some point before I started at my current day job, there was an employee satisfaction survey which revealed that flexibility was one of the areas people felt needed to be improved. The higher-ups in our department have now issued a follow-up survey with open ended questions to give people a chance to elaborate. I wrote this. Remote work. Each workday, I rise well before sunrise. In the summer, my dog wakes me before my alarm has a chance to sound, but somewhere around the equinox, that change...

Dog and Pony ShowSep 30, 2026

Just write something.

So around the first W. Bush term, I was a pretty prolific blogger. Not, like, one who had readers or made money or anything. I had a Xanga. So did a lot of my friends. Probably important to note here that I was in college; I think the average Xanga user was probably a high schooler who wasn't quite cool enough for Livejournal. Anyway, I used to write a lot on Xanga. Every day. Thousands of words that came out of my young brain. I held on to that thing for years after all my friends had stopped m...