I'm certainly not the pinnacle of organization. I call myself a "recovering slob". That said, I've made great strides in the past 5-10 years in that respect. Well at home at least, my cube is a wreck. One of the very first steps I took towards being a more organized person was my "bin of important things". I was forever coming home and putting my ( Read more... )

I got a small bonus as part of my review. Most of it will go to bolstering our savings that has taken some large hits lately (new used car, major car repair of other car, home improvement we felt important to do prior to the kid's arrival, kids and their gear, ...) Zoe feels it's important I take some of it for myself though. It is supposed to be a ( Read more... )

Chapter One: Childhood life in New Hampshire
Chapter Two: Life on my own in California
Chapter Three: Life with Autumn
Chapter Four: Life with Zoe
Chapter Five: Life as a husband and a Father.

What will chapter Six be? Do I care? Life as a retired grandfather?

(subject line shamelessly stolen)

Part of my job doing SysAdmin is to provide escalation support to the admins in India. They do some things, if they can't figure it out they call me (or my co-worker; we rotate) at all hours. This morning I got a call that was the non-technical equivalent of, "I'm trying to drive the most important car in the fleet off of a cliff, but my key is not ( Read more... )

If you put a little javascript floaty box ad or other window up on top of the page I am reading. I will _maybe_ click the X to close the window as quickly as possible (ignoring whatever it is you were bothering me with) if I am really into the content. More likely though, I'll just leave your site immediately and never come back.

Somehow I missed this one, even wingnuts come up with something interesting every once in a while ( Read more... )

While flipping thru the radio dial on the way to work today a hiphop station DJ said "Wadddup 831!?" (area code for Santa Cruz and Monterey counties)

It somehow just did not have the same impact...

Farmers, Fishermen, and Hippies represent!

# ps -ef | grep oww
root 12345 5124 0 13:41 pts/0 00:00:01 owwnogui -i

The nearest bathroom to my desk at work also doubles as the men's locker/shower room. For 8.5 years it had a badge reader to access the outer door (my work is more secure than Fort Knox; I'm not sure why...). Around the first of the year they removed the badge reader, so one no longer has to badge in to pee. I used to think these were to enforce ( Read more... )

We had some friends recommend this movie ( Read more... )