I've been thinking about Christmas memories today. I think in my mind I am trying to resolve the conflict within myself between these moments I recall from the past, while seeing them through the new lens of how I view my family now. Or, if I should be put more accurately, seeing things through a lens of reality, with my rose-tinted glasses removed ( Read more... )

I had not even finished editing my entry yesterday when my phone rang and it was Dino, the guy up north who wouldn't know which end of a plug to stick in the wall. I knew immediately when I saw his name on my caller ID that he was going to complain about the authentication issue. Sure enough, it was related, though he was able to access the shared ( Read more... )

Looks like I am going back to the Meat Packer today. Another 10 hours to bill, whether or not I work 10 hours or 5 hours. I've already shored up my time for the month, having billed them over 60 hours already since Friday. Since I am essentially on-call for them, I decided I don't even care about embellishing anything ( Read more... )

I am so burnt out this morning. I think I was clenching my jaw all night, and my head was throbbing. I don't really ever get headaches. That's how I know when I am really, actually sick because on rare occasion I have one. And what I am experiencing really isn't a headache right now. It's just more of a general pressure in my head, like a physical ( Read more... )

Today was an absolute shitshow ( Read more... )

I have to say, once this email migration blows over, hopefully on Monday, I am not doing shit for work next week unless I am forced to. Hell, let's just say for the rest of the year ( Read more... )

The email migration was not as complicated as it could have been (so far), though it was not without calamity. I was hellbent on getting all the machines reinstalled, activated and configured last night. And I would have 99% completed it all, had the old issue with the network switch in the server room going out not happened ( Read more... )

I was thinking the other day of my brain working at some cosmic game of Tetris. And how small little revelations, or blocks fitting together, can cause a massive change in thinking about huge periods of life, or show reasoning behind behaviors. Opening things up in my head, if you will, like when you fill a row or three in Tetris and the blocks all ( Read more... )

I drove the Sparrow to work this morning and ran over a squirrel on the way back. I felt so horrible about it. I was cruising along and the squirrel ran out across the road. I braked, and he was all the way to the side as I was about to pass him. It was then that he inexplicably decided to turn around and run right back out into the road and he ( Read more... )

I only have Spotify because the Sparrow pays for a family account so we, and his siblings and mother, all are able to use the same subscription. I don't use it very often. I tend to only listen to songs out there I don't yet have in my iTunes... er, "aPpLE mUsIc". They released their 2024 "Spotify Wrapped" thing which breaks down all the numbers. ( Read more... )