Attention Community!
My wife is about to run out of unemployment.  We need to find leads to permanent, full-time work. Not side jobs.

She's a union carpenter and is capable of building just about anything. Jaime's been looking for a permanent gig for over a year now, and is hopeful about finding something in facilities, but no dice so far. She also ( Read more... )

I'm working on documentation. It's very very very long. It has a lot of exposition in it. Pages of it. It's GOOD exposition, but old-timers like me don't want or need it, that having all of it there is a stumbling block to using the documentation. What I want is the equivalent of LJ-cuts to collapse the explanations of Why and how of something, so ( Read more... )

Originally I'd planned on commuting to Arisia because I just couldn't cope with hotel wrangling when hotel rooms became available. However, thanks to the kindness and generosity of
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posting from dreamwidth seeing if it posts in LJ

EDIT! It works!!
OK, folks- ya'll need to get on adding me in your permission levels, because I have access to about 3 of you at the moment.

I established a dreamwidth acct a few LJ scares ago. I'm happy to jump ship with everyone else if legitimately everyone's going there, but let me tell you how I've not loved trying to rebuild my connections to friends. It feels like Dreamwidth doesn't want you to find individual people. Their Directory feature is obnoxious and all my hunting and ( Read more... )

I went to see Rogue One a week+ ago, but then I read this post from a fellow information-professional, and it made me remember I was going to say something to someone about this, so I wrote a half-assed thing in FB and now I want to write a bit more here, because I can.

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My downstairs neighbor/landlady Trish just died all of a sudden today, cementing in case it wasn't cemented enough, that we really have no control over shit and we can pretend all we want, but when it comes down to it, sometimes you just fucking die and that's it ( Read more... )

If I don't do this now, it'll never get done. So, I'm doing this in the HTML interface since LJ's visual editor is down, pls excuse the rudimentary. Also, I'll have to emulate 42itous and put in photos sans exposition another time.

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The fam and I are headed to the big island of Hawaii' in early December. Finances are tight so I cannot bring home a ton of souvenirs for all but if you know you want a thing and j can get it and bring it back, I will be happy to take your money and be your courier ( Read more... )