So, since I'm really trying to break the "posting once every 3 weeks" habit, I thought I would provide a quick update.

Job = piss
Fencing = not that bad
Social life = okay
Money = none
Latest addition to the Shit List = Facebook

And I saw this in the newspaper today at work...I soooo need one of these.


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So, the weather here is officially jacked up.  It's been raining for several days in a row (no surprise there), but around 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon is when it got weird.  Without even being close to freezing outside, it started to sleet.  Then it started to snow.  Then it went back to rain.  Then it stopped.  All in the space of about an hour ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back in Seattle after two weeks traveling around Texas, making some long-overdue visits to family and friends, including
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Overheard today from a few cubicles down...

Deb: "Jesus, Michael.  Eat some real food."
Michael: "I rarely eat lunch at all.  This [candy canes, peanut brittle, and Dr. Pepper] can't be any worse."
Deb: "You're going to die young, you know that?"

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No disrespect to any burnt-orange wearing types who might be reading this, but yeah...


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Saw a print-out of this tacked up on the wall at the Salle a while back, and I was chuckling about it for days...


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So, I haven't posted is almost a month...partly because nothing horribly interesting has happened, and also because work has been absolutely insane.  The good news is that Thanksgiving is next week, and I get a four-day weekend.  I have absolutely no plans, and I aim to keep it that way.  I will call my folks and maybe some other family to wish ( Read more... )

Like many corporate settings today, my office is essentially a cube farm.  We have a modicum of visual privacy, and we've grown rather adept at pretending the walls go all the way to the ceiling, but it takes some real effort to ignore other people's conversations (especially when you aren't that interested in what you're supposed to be doing to ( Read more... )

So, take a look at what I received in the mail today from 
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So, I had the pleasure of hosting
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