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Vacation Time
Yep, since there is a little revenue problem at work, we have been “encouraged” to take 4 days of FTO in this fiscal quarter. With not so subtle hints that the week before the 4th of July holiday would be grand for this. So, I am taking the week off. Woo hoo. Not a great…
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The Original Star Trek Episodes
I am probably going to piss off a lot of people with this, but I am wondering why the 1960’s version of Star Trek is a cult classic. Really painful to watch. Far more than the awful acting of the Shatner, the stories just suck. I just began watching it again via Netflix streaming, and…
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Quitting Facebook (at least temporarily)
When this goes live, I will have been a full week of not being on Facebook. Last Tuesday, I decided to do a drastic thing, to deactivate my Facebook account. It isn’t the first time I had done this. Back in 2009, not long after I joined Facebook, I deactivated my profile. That time, I…
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A CEO steps down, and I should care
Yesterday afternoon, it was announced that Dick Costolo was stepping down as the CEO of Twitter. The NY Times, and virtually all my media alerts posted about this “event” Excuse me if I don’t give a shit. A fabulously wealthy individual, who will likely not ever need to clip coupons, will give up his role…
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Is life no longer worth living?
I wrote back in March about a life changing event. Having the gout. It sucks. Talk about white privilege diseases, and Gout is top of the list. But the doctor said it would return. One of the things they say causes flare-ups is beer. Sweet, wonderful, hoppy beer. Apparently, the puric acid is the culprit.…
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Hawaii Five-O Observations
I have mentioned in the past about watching classic TV on Netflix and singled out Hawaii Five O as endlessly entertaining. Lately, I have swung back into that series, and I have a few observations: 12 seasons – how on earth did that show last for 12 seasons? Seriously, by the 4th season it was…
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Weekend Trivialities
I have gotten out of the habit of updating things here lately. Work has become super busy. Homelife has been busy, and frankly the blogging has suffered. A bunch of things today. 1) Apparently my car is dripping oil. If it was s late 1960’s British car, this wouldn’t be an issue, as they leak…
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DoublePlus Suck – Seizure AND broken Toe
Grab bag here, and a quickie post… Yesterday was our anniversary, 15 years! Woot. Great dinner, and life is good. Then at 10:10PM, Tate has a seizure. I was not really sleeping so apart from the panic it wasn’t too disruptive. Apart from the trauma of the seizure. Then, as I was bolting down the…
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Moving, the last frontier
Yesterday I groused about some of the last dregs of moving. While the majority of the unpacking has been done, there was still a clot of boxes in the middle of the garage. Annoying, yet stubborn. This morning I was determined to do something about the clot of boxes. It was about 3/4’s of Barbara’s…
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Moving Notes
Well, we are mostly unpacked, and all is mostly well. 95% of the boxes are unpacked, and the house is well organized. The boys are settled in (and too comfortable). However there are a few wrinkles. Before we moved from Chandler, I bought a new pair of cycling shoes. My old ones were 13 years…