Later, I need to make a full blown update. Right now, I'm relaxing and enjoying my 'weekend'. I picked up a Sandisk Sansa 6GB MP3 player, it's rather nice, and it's amsuing comparing and contrasting it to my brother's new iPod Video U2 edition. I bought frames and hung posters today. I also bought a mess of compact fluorescent bulbs, which now ( Read more... )

Another $15 in the carbon fund.

'We don't have a cable tech available. Can this wait until morning?'

No. This can't wait until morning. This is a T1 you @#$%@ers. It supplies connectivity to an entire POP. Customers are calling me, and they're not happy.

Listening to the support voicemail with the phone set on fast-forward is vaguely surreal.

In Nick's post, if you didn't read it, he explained that Julia's laptop survived the crash. It was in sleep mode. On the screen was the last thing she ever wrote. It was a private snippet, meant to motivate and inspire her; It is unedited, a stream of consciousness. It's far more eloquent than I know mine usually are. Us more mundane types, as I've ( Read more... )

The sun is coming up, even if it's perpetual twilight here in my fortress of technology. It's going to be another beautiful day.

It's funny; not ha-ha funny; no, that uncomfortable sort of funny. People drift in and out of our lives, each having a tiny influence on us. Some create more ripples than others. Julia created a lot of ripples in my life; you know the story of the proverbial butterfly that causes a typhoon? She was like that butterfly. She taught me many things; ( Read more... )

Thomas Dolby's 'The Flat Earth' sounds exceptionally good on the newish stereo gear I picked up. I'd yet to play it. And nothing explodes when I go past '50' on the volume dial.

o/~ I scare myself, when I'm without you. . o/~

So. It Begins.

So, what's been up with me? Well, there's the usual work. I'm enjoying that new position I mentioned awhile ago, the NOC engineer. The 12 hour/3day schedule is kinda weird, but now that I'm used to it, I rather like it ( Read more... )