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A New Computer (But Not For Me)

A few months ago a buddy of mine said he wanted a “new computer”. He’s not a real techy guy so extracting what he actually wanted was a bit hard. “Something that plays games” is pretty ambiguous, so it ended up coming down to how much he wanted to spend “I donno” and what he […]

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BattlestarGalacticaThon

This weekend was a good weekend so far. Mostly relaxing, an early morning this morning to do some taxi duty, other than that I had a couple of folks over for a last minute Battlestar Galactica-athon. Other than some issues with playing the DVDs with the episodes burnt in my DVD player (which normally plays

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A House Cleaning Day

Wish I had taken before and after pics, because I’m quite proud. After we got back from the (very fun btw, thanks Jason!) LAN party yesterday I figured that since we were having my folks over for dinner tonight, and we had 2 less computers and monitors in the office anyway, why not do the

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Laws of the Computing Universe

Along with such stand-bys as requiring the goat at midnight GMT not PST when debugging SCSI issues, another one must state: If you lay off all your linux experts you will have to hire them back as a contractor at double their previous salary to have them help you fix the issues they were dealing

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Stuff Getting Done

Got a bunch of random stuff done over the last few days around the house. First of all, finally found my laptop bag with daytimer, passport, etc all in there. whew had me worried there for a while. Turns out I had left it at work at some point just before we got kicked out

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No More Tendonitis

So a couple of days after I got happy pills for my wonky shoulder, the wonky shoulder is all fine and dandy. I noticed this morning after I forgot to take said happy pills that I had my full range of movement again. Trippy. Either the pills worked really well or it only had a

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Tendonitis

More proof that good things come in twos, I finally dragged myself down to the walk in clinic to find out why my arm has had gimpyness (the medical term) for the last week or so when put in certain positions. Yes, I know, bring on the flood of “doctor it hurts when I do

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Unemployed Again

Well, I’m now unemployed. Due to “re-structuring” at work myself and six of my coworkers are no longer employed. However, I’m refusing to look at this as a negative, instead it’s a huge opportunity to find a new and better job, or career, or create something myself. I honestly have no idea where I’m going.

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Office Cleanup

Things I learned tonight: Nervous energy is not always a good thing I’m one of those personality types that will continue something until it’s done, no matter how meaningless or trivial it is (in this case, cleaning, wiping and sweeping) Swiffer wetjet liquid in an open wound hurts it is possible to just push all

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Car is Back, Another Late Night

Looks like the car just needed a new battery. My massive thanks again to ?ryk for running me to the hardware store and then home with my bike in the back of his little hatchback. A bit of monkeying around to throw the battery in and she’s back. Lets not even think about the possibility

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