| Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 |
| 8:28 pm |
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| Thursday, November 26th, 2009 |
| 8:56 pm |
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| Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 |
| 7:18 pm |
Update-y thing
Still not king. However, plans are afoot to make ginger-pumpkin pound cake with rum-molasses glaze. Finances are holding out OK. Interviews are about as scarce as I thought they would be. Looks like I'll be heading back to peonage contract work at Microsoft in a couple months if it stays THIS slow at getting work (though I will try to angle for a vendor position, as 100 day breaks are just kind of getting annoying). Head First C# rocks. Other C# books, not as much. Apple Repair is pretty good- my out of warranty MacBook decided to have the logic board blow up as I was chatting with someone. Apple fixed it, and the CDR (it was getting cranky) AND the case (which was cracking) for ~$300. The extended warranty would have cost about that (and would be expiring in about a month anyway). A logic board by itself is $700 from Apple, $400 from other folks. I am enjoying being on the SAME tank of gas for over a month. Enough so that I want to try the Rob Goes Carless For A Month experiment soon, to see if I can sell the car and get buy with the occasional usage of Zipcar. I am finding I enjoy living in my urban hellhole. |
| Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 |
| 6:24 pm |
Weather.
Jim Forman. Current Mood: weather. |
| Monday, November 16th, 2009 |
| 8:01 am |
My new breakfast crack
Spiced Chai tea mixed with hazelnut non-dairy creamer. Handy when you're getting up at 6:15 in the morning to get your daughter to school. (I am functional in the morning without caffeinated beverages, unlike other people, but even I resent getting up THIS early- especially since thanks to my 100-day break-in-service/job searching on the Internets I'm all dressed up at 7:05 am once Rose is off on the bus, with no place to go.) |
| Friday, November 13th, 2009 |
| 9:25 am |
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| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 |
| 9:00 pm |
About goddamned time.
One body of Congress down, one to go. ETA: the part where the government says legal procedures for women's health can't be covered... well, that sucks. But hey, par for the course, men seem predisposed to tell women what can and cannot be done with the uterus once their precious sperm hits it. |
| Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
| 5:01 pm |
weather.
weather Current Mood: weatherCurrent Music: weather. |
| Thursday, November 5th, 2009 |
| 6:32 pm |
ATTN: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) chiaspod and morthael Bad news: Casper's in Lake Forest Park will be closing next year. Good news: they're opening one in Shoreline (with a drive-through), maybe one in Renton. |
| Monday, November 2nd, 2009 |
| 11:13 pm |
Once again, it's time for No Context Theatre.
You people are geniuses at sucking the fun out of something and just turning it into a reason to be angry at you. The part that I get to look forward to is laughing at your eventual misfortune. |
| Friday, October 30th, 2009 |
| 10:30 am |
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Obviously the part of my resume where I say "I cannot return to Microsoft on contract or as a vendor before January 2010" needs to not only be in bold, but in 80 point font. And stapled to recruiter foreheads. GOD. Current Mood: GOD. |
| 8:05 am |
I need coffee
This is actually fairly rare that I need coffee to be functional. Of course, a couple nights where bedtime's at 2-3 and wakeup is at 6:30 (with naps) will do that to me. Pity a nap today isn't an option. Oh well, off to Le Pichet... Current Mood: Posty McPostpants |
| Friday, October 23rd, 2009 |
| 3:08 pm |
Reminder: Birthday dinner shenanigans, 7 pm
Seven Stars Pepper Szechuan, 12th and Jackson. Be there, or don't. And for those of you who are in the "don't" category... uh, see you at pub golf tomorrow (my actual birthday), or whenever. |
| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 |
| 11:32 pm |
Birthdaypalooza plans:
- I want to go have dinner at Seven Stars Pepper Szechuan Friday. As many of you that can join me at 7 pm, please let me know. (Kinda hard to order "one of everything" if we don't have a mob.) - My actual birthday is Saturday, and Daniel has arranged for some pub golf (if you can't see the page at the link... ummm, let me know, and I will check with Daniel to make sure your presence won't be obnoxious or something). I may cut out early because Sunday, bright and early, I get to a) retrieve Rose from a birthday party, and then b) go sell stuff at Pike Place Market from 9-5. No Vegas or LA for me this year- I'm sorta broke (well, not exactly, more like "not bringing in the income like I would if I was working full-time"). But hey, we'll see what happens. |
| Saturday, October 17th, 2009 |
| 6:14 pm |
Good news/bad news
Well, it looks like my future attendance at Packers-related hullabaloo may have just went down to 0.0% from now through the end of the year. The good news is the reason. If things work out tomorrow, I'll have a weekend sales job on Sundays through the end of the year. If I could have asked the Baby Jesus for something to tide me over until I can go back to Microsoft on contract, weekend retail sales work that does NOT interfere with a Monday-Friday workweek (if I get a testing gig between now and then) would have been on my list at #1, with gold stars and exclamation points. This puts a small crimp into Birthdaypalooza (details coming later this week!) and other plans, but screw it, I got a family to feed and a kid's Christmas to make happen... |
| Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 |
| 10:32 pm |
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| Saturday, October 10th, 2009 |
| 10:16 am |
On the other hand...
Many Republicans and various apparatchik bloggers and talk-show radio hosts have been sure not to let this opportunity pass of reminding America that they deserve the Nobel Prize for Asshole. A few Republicans (like McCain) got it right, but really, the rest of them have to realize that beating the Democrats is like the joke about the two hunters being chased by the grizzly: you don't have to be faster than the grizzly; you just have to be faster than the other guy, and trashing Democrats isn't giving anyone a reason to vote for Republicans. |
| Friday, October 9th, 2009 |
| 6:25 am |
WTH?
I like our new President as much as the next guy, but doesn't this Nobel Peace Prize seem like the Europeans going "Thanks for not fucking up YET AGAIN and putting Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the Presidency- eight years of this bullshit was enough"? |
| Thursday, September 24th, 2009 |
| 6:28 am |
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| Monday, September 21st, 2009 |
| 10:20 am |
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