On Christmas…
Sparkles! It’s been a long time since I’ve felt good about Christmas… Maybe I’m finally growing up, or not growing up. Finding the inner child that was slaughtered so many years ago. Christmas was never a happy time growing up. Oh there were the usual trappings, trees, lights, presents, etc, as-nauseaum, But it was never [...]
They’re not allowed to grow up…
Don’t screw around and miss the time with your kids. It’s golden, and once it’s gone it’s gone.
Getting old….
You know there comes a time when you realize you’re old. When the “perfect” saturday night consists of a trip to Fry’s electronics for a power cable and shopping for pro-biotic yogurt. When the joy of balancing your checkbook and having it come out correct (to the penny) carries all the joy of picking up [...]
Despair…
I’m 41 now… The realization that this is as good as it gets, and that this sucks. I’ve made a *LOT* of mistakes in my past… I fractured the occasional law in my pre-pubescent years…and my pubescent years… yeah…that kind of childhood. I spent years screwing up my life, screwing up my relationships, all of [...]
On Realizations…
What if you woke up this morning and realized that this was the best it was going to get. That while good, your life was never going to be the dream you thought it was going to be. Maybe you’ve made mistakes in the past that limit you. Maybe your career is in the dumper. [...]
Another year older…..
…and yup, deeper in debt. This has been an interesting year. So much so that I don’t even know where to start. So I’ll break my hard and fast rule and post bullet-points: My accomplishments for the 2008-2009 model year: Down-Notes: Watching the banks melt down. Watching my own personal finances melt down. Blaming the [...]
Death of a loved one…
No worries, this is something that happened about 10 years ago. On September 17th, 1998 my mother passed away. In the realization that I didn’t notice the 10 year anniversarry come and go my wife reminded of the greatest story ever. In 1998 I was working in the IT department of a pretty big accounting [...]
39 is such a non-age….
I’m going to turn 39 in a few days. 39 is the most non-age that I have yet experienced! Think about it…you’re no longer in your mid-thirties, in fact you’re at the very end of your thirty-something. You haven’t yet reached the “BIG 40” – that blessed and cursed point at which you can legitimately [...]
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