Had a pretty good weekend in Clifton Park/Troy. Drove up around 10:00 Friday morning to get to my interview, which went well (I'll expand below). Then I picked up some fat NY strip steaks from a small market, and headed over to my friends Dan and Christy's place. Cracked a few beers and dug some post holes for a deck. Heather showed up around ( Read more... )

So I started the process of applying for jobs near Albany Monday night. And tonight I set up an interview for next Friday. Holy cow. (Seems strange to invoke the sacred bovine when the pope is about to die live on international TV ( Read more... )

Here's my plan...

• Recover from my night in Troy
• Buy some new shoes?
• Another night in Troy
• Wake tomorrow, drive to Northampton for dinner with the fam
• Drive back to Groton

At this point in my life, I've probably made half a dozen important, "adult," life altering, difficult decisions. Choosing a college. Choosing a job. Choosing to go to grad school. Choosing to get married. They've all been differing degrees of difficult, and have been different degrees of life altering. I remember each of them being stressful, but ( Read more... )

I don't feel much like writing about this right now, but I just wanted to point out how worthless the Democratic response to tonight's TV interruption.. I mean, State of the Union address. Say what you want about some of the solutions proposed for social security. At least the President put it on the table and opened debate for it. Obviously, the ( Read more... )

Got this as another trivia forward today. I'm not checking facts, and I'm not purporting any of this to be true, but it's interesting reading anyway.

Particularly amusing was this tidbit:

> It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a
> month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his
> son-in-law with all ( Read more... )

I was at the Ruck tonight. I think someone stole my jacket.

There is nothing more to say.

I am so pissed.

But I won't let it interfere with my weekend. See you all tomorrow!!

Coming down I-95 on my way home from visiting Heather this weekend I hit a deer. I'm not hurt, my car's basically fine, the deer probably died a long, painful death, and holy cow, that was scary ( Read more... )

Let me explain that a bit. I've made no secret of the fact that I'm not happy with the outcome of the election. By no means am I a party line Democrat. I can't really say that I'm upset that John Kerry isn't in office. I can say that I'm upset that President Bush still is. I dislike his assault on civil liberties in particular, he's too socially ( Read more... )

Like the rest of you, I think this sucks. I'm pretty disappointed in my fellow countrymen. These are the two most distressing things I've seen about the election. These are exit polls, you can see the full list at CNN. You can see these broken down by which preferred candidate.. Doesn't take much to guess though.

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