I see you as a figure drowning, asking for help, and I rush out to help you, but instead you panic and start to drag me down with you. I am a decent swimmer, but I can't handle the terror and the fear in your body as you flail and make things worse, pulling us both deeper into the abyss. And then I have to reach a decision point as to whether or ( Read more... )

I wanted to go bike riding today, because it's been so unseasonably cool. So I got motivated, even if I had to go by myself. And I said to myself, why don't you try and see if you can get to the real bike trail that goes to the beach? Well, I knew about the dead end, and I was going to circumvent it, but when I got there, a bunch of hiking army ( Read more... )

I really need one of those T-shirts with the duck on them ( Read more... )

This is the story of my wonderful month-long dealings with my new neighbour downstairs. My previous troublesome neighbours all have moved away (Mr. Hacking Cough downstairs and the Clown Car family across from me), and I was enjoying some peace and quiet for once. That came to an end with the meathead that showed up last month. I never really ( Read more... )

I'm applying to the team leader position. I don't want it, and I don't want the path that it could lead me toward. I feel like I'm being pulled away from my true calling, and while I can do it, and do it well, my heart just isn't in it. I'm still going to apply to other analyst positions, but I'm so tired of being told they won't train me this ( Read more... )

Ah, another year, another St. Valentine's day I don't have to celebrate. Did I screw up the last (recent) relationship by expressing how much I hate this manufactured holiday? Perhaps. It's hard to articulate that I still want to spend time with a girl on this particular day, I just don't want to turn it into a corporate spending spree along with ( Read more... )

Can I just say that San Francisco is a beautiful city at a beautiful location with beautiful architecture? Because if there was ever a case for the usage of a neutron bomb, this city would take the prize. The people here are just awful. You can't walk down the street without an assemblage of homeless people bothering you, or crazy people yelling ( Read more... )

Ugh, what a miserable weekend. After being happy to have it all off, I spent almost the entire time dealing with these awful fires. It seems every year they get worse, and I always worried that my parents live too close to some of the canyons, but this was the first time we actually had to evacuate it. I get a call from my dad telling me to keep ( Read more... )

5 years ago today I started working in my first real career-type job, and I'm still there. When I finally set foot in the federal building that first week, I didn't know what to expect. I filled out a bunch of paperwork and really didn't do much of anything, since the real training was to begin the next week when I flew across the country to be ( Read more... )

Pixar just keeps rolling along. I don't know how they do it. Sure, they've had some movies that I haven't liked as much as others, but for the most part, there are some elements that still stick with me, and that's always a good thing. A lesser Pixar movie is still miles above anything that comes out of Hollywood. For example, while I didn't ( Read more... )