Woke up this morning to a phone call from my partner in the new computer consulting venture (hereafter referred to as Mr. Z).  Got out of bed, through the shower, and out the door faster than I have in a long time.  Made $112.50 in an hour and a half straightening up the shared printer settings and internal DNS of a new client in Des Plaines.  Ran ( Read more... )

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Work at 8pm until close today.  "Close" usually means 1:30-2am.  I have a final at 8am tomorrow, and will be campus-hopping for finals until around 10pm, so I'd requested it off.  Work has ignored my request, so now I have a 5-6 hour shift, followed by an awkward 6-hour period that will be, at best, a short nap, and at worst, me sleeping through my ( Read more... )

Loading my phone with music, putting my good headphones on, and getting stuff done while watching the sun rise.

This morning, I discovered a scar on my back.  It's straight, clean, perpendicular to my spine, a few inches long, and located just below my ribs.

I have no idea what it's from.

(03:39:01) me: I just had an interesting random encounter
(03:39:32) lxpk: what was that?
(03:39:49) me: korean immigrant family at the gas station
(03:39:52) me: from georgia
(03:39:56) me: looking to move to my area
03:40
(03:40:11) me: they were relying on recieving a money transfer while here from south korea, and it never came.
(03:40:44) me: I gave ( Read more... )

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THE GOOD:

I made it to the party intact. Made good time, listened to rantradio industrial from my phone the whole drive uninterrupted (my phone's data plan is more awesome than I expected). Met with my gracious hostess

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Goose Island root beer, chow mein, and mandarin/orange chicken - fortune cookie on the side of my plate, of course. For $6, it's not a bad 6:30pm breakfast. Randhurst is pretty dead, but the background noise of a dying suburban mall (once the largest indoor air conditioned space in the US) is astonishingly peaceful ( Read more... )