On call week routinely kicks my ass, and this one was no exception, starting with help from DST throwing a wrench into my already not-normal sleep cycle, followed by getting paged at 4:15 am on Monday. Tuesday I ended up working from home because I had slept past my alarm so badly. But we did have a system problem that resulted in a mini-fire ( Read more... )

My oldest son Brandon has been in the military for almost 2 years now. In that time he's been through Basic training, advanced training, and then got posted to the middle-of-nowhere-america at Ft. Still, Oklahoma. He's not liked his posting since day one, in large part because he's not doing what he got trained for. Granted, he's also not ( Read more... )

While I'm killing time waiting for the sandman toshow, i downloaded an lj client app to my android phone. It's ok for what it does, which to post to your journal. Unfortunately, it will only let you post--you cannot read your friend's journals. This means i will still have to go through the android built-in internet client to connect to lj. I ( Read more... )

The key to the future, a glimpse of which we are seeing in the protests in the Middle East and North Africa, is to find a way for every person on the planet to have a sense of purpose and feeling of fulfillment, and a means of a self-direction in achieving and sustaining that ( Read more... )

...when having a recurring dream and I can't find something that was there the last time, and I start feeling like I've misplaced it. And then my mind starts getting overly-creative with things in the dream to account for why it's missing or what I have as options now that it's gone. Last night, I actually annoyed myself awake because I couldn't ( Read more... )

Oh yeah, I was on call for a week and lost my rhythm. There are 9 of us in the call rotation. One guy prefers to do his rotation two weeks at a time. I believe he gets 3 rotations a year. That leaves 46 weeks for the rest of us, meaning six of us get 6 weeks and two lucky souls only get 5. In theory. Last year I did 6 weeks; this year's schedule ( Read more... )

I've yet to go back and list everything I read last year, but I am definitely continuing my trend of non-fiction reading. Aside from a short list of favorite authors (Neal Gaiman, Umberto Eco, William Gibson, and Martin Cruz Smith) there's not much fiction that I find appealing right now. A couple of times I've gone to Borders with the specific ( Read more... )

My oldest daughter, Samantha, turned 14 today. In keeping with our tradition, I took her out to dinner. All on her own, with no prompting from me, she wanted to go to the Japanese restaurant. I think this is the fourth time we've been there for her birthday now. We got our usual chicken and salmon at the hibachi, and had a nice quiet time out ( Read more... )

Victoria's Secret was running a commercial this weekend about their semi-annual sale and that everyone's favorite bras and panties could be found there. I immediately wondered if my former girlfriend would be there, as whatever bra and panties she happens to be wearing at the time are my favorites ( Read more... )

This article over at psychology today comes the closest to describing some of what I go through dealing with people face-to-face. I don't struggle with it in the moment the way the author of the story did, and never have. In the past I mostly would be oblivious as to the whys and wherefores of the situation until well after the fact. Now, I'm ( Read more... )