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Return
So a weird thing happened a couple weeks ago. Almost two months after I was laid off my old job for budget reasons, they called wanting to re-hire me. Though they said they made a lot of cuts around the office and were getting new contracts, I know the biggest factor in my re-hiring was the fact one of the other programmers left ( Read more... ) -
Treading
Not much new. Still haven't found a new job yet, though this was the first week I actually heard back from some! Just some follow-up questions that didn't seem to go anywhere ( Read more... ) -
The man who walked up a mountain but came down a hill
So I lost my job today ( Read more... ) -
Rebuild
A while ago I tried the trial version of what is now Windows Home Server 2011... Back then it was named "Vail" and I really liked it. But when it went to a full product, it removed Drive Extender, which allowed you to easily add hard drives at any time while maintaining a level of data recovery. So rather than get started with WHS 2011 right away, ( Read more... ) -
TV
It bugs me whenever I see articles online that are like, "How To: Completely replace cable TV using just the Internet!" because step one is always "Compromise what you want ( Read more... ) -
Working out
Feeling up, feeling down. Lately I've been trying to plan things out a bit more. When I applied for a Sears card this year, I was pleasantly surprised by how much credit they gave me (otherwise, couldn't have gotten a new fridge!), so I thought maybe I could make a better effort at eliminating some debt ( Read more... ) -
Bills comma bills
So most of my tax refund is gone in a way I didn't really plan. But things still worked out rather nicely, considering ( Read more... ) -
Hoekstra
So by now I'm sure everyone's heard about the ad for Republican Hoekstra attacking his opponent, Debbie Stabenow. It has an Asian woman riding a bicycle past a rice paddy and saying to the camera something like, "Thanks for spending so much you have to borrow from my country! Your country get weak while my country get strong. Tee hee!" Yeah, an ( Read more... ) -
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Feels like it's been a rough couple of weeks but things are looking okay now ( Read more... ) -
Minor freak-out
Last week we had a pretty big storm. After the hot, dry summer we had, this much rain was welcome. It seemed to go on all through the night and continued into the morning. Sometimes the thunder was so close, it shook the house and rattled the windows. I thought it was pretty cool ( Read more... )