Sometimes my desk at work starts to look way too much like something from Dr. Frankenstein's lab. Perhaps it is just the big VARIAC. Perhaps it was that today I was doing 220V power testing on something.  Perhaps I need something better to blog about.

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About two weeks ago I went over to an old friends house for a final look around and closure.  It was a depressing and sad site...

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Today I got a call from an ex client looking for work. His company was just purchased and now he is out a job after 12 years with the same company.  He called me looking for leads. A few years ago I was working for him. This is the third similar call I have gotten this year alone.  With the economy tanking, companies closing and being bought up I ( Read more... )

The first of spring is here and so last night K and I sat on the porch grilled fajitas, made blender drinks and cranked the classic rock on Pandora.  As I sat there with a full belly and a smoke I couldn't help but realize that life is good and I am happy.  I have a wonderful partner who I love so much, a great job that brings me joy and good pay, ( Read more... )

 
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Fast-forward a few years. I am in school pursuing an engineering degree.

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I have been eating this pink packaged cream cheese for the last month because it is what the discount grocery store is trying to get rid of cheap. All the time I am chuckling about pink cream cheese and discounting the true meaning.

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I didn’t have an easy time of it growing up.  I left home at age 11 to do the social service shuffle being passed from kiddy detention center to foster home to group home to who knows what.  What all these places tell you, more than anything else, is your fucked up and not a normal person. It is hard to grow up feeling good, normal or with any ( Read more... )

What the !@#$ are they thinking.

I'm really quite outraged that we are going blindly into this stimulus bailout without strong voices saying that there shouldn't be any stimulus package at all. The only debate seems to be where the money goes or how much. Why are we supporting these companies bad business practices and greed which has lead them to ( Read more... )