Is anyone still there? It's been... years. I spent yesterday evening darning pajama pants, drinking beer, binge watching Firefly on Netflix. I was wearing a kimono my grandmother bought for me in Japan. I spent today cleaning my house, mostly to stave off depression, listening to Just A Geek, leaving the banana bread my son made along with the ( Read more... )

I woke up on the couch yesterday morning, having fallen asleep with the kids watching a movie.  In itself, that's not really blogworthy, but my god, the dreams I had that night...

I worked in a research center in what must have been some post apocalyptic wasteland future.  And by "research center" I mean an abandoned warehouse where we had a zombie ( Read more... )

For a number of weeks, I have been desperately searching for the reason why I am not happy ( Read more... )

Thanks so much to Sokleng for bringing back pics and gifts from my wife!


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 I’m pretty psyched. You know that recording you get when you call just about any place "This call be recorded for quality assurance"?  Yeah.  I got an excellent quality score on a call from a couple days ago.  Hell yeah.  First week out of training and i’m doing well.  so i got a nifty balloon to hang in my cube, and an entry into a raffle for ( Read more... )

I'm not a big basketball fan, but...


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.... we last left our hero mourning the loss of his pc, his connection to the outside world, as he forced himself to connect his decrepit and aging laptop in an attempt to get a faster connection to the internet than his cell phone provides....

do you have any idea how hard it is to find a pc power supply in Salem after 5:30pm?  do computer parts ( Read more... )

My ex is understandably upset that I've been bashing her for quite some time on my blogs.  You see, the reason she thinks that we've getting along fabulously for the past many months isn't because we make such great friends.  It's because I don't talk about things that bother me.  I write them down in my blog, bitch about them privately, and resign ( Read more... )

 No, i haven't been deleting entries.  But I need to set permissions for you to see some personal entries, which means you need a livejournal account.  Either that or read the same stuff on my myspace blog, in which case you'll need to be on my friend's list.  Sry.

This was the week for potential employers to contact me.

The DMV sent me a letter a couple days after the interview saying I wasn't selected, and the phone interview with the IT Support Center for Oregon State Administrative Services didn't go too well.  They're a small department looking for a very specific skill set.  But they also start at ( Read more... )