Which home is home?
Travel. When you work in Information Technology, you eventually come to a point where you’ll either be traveling or your career is dead in the water. If you’re lucky you get the, “I’m leaving town on Wednesday but I’ll be back on Friday” kind of travel. Those are the ones we all hope for. Those [...]
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 [...]
Six days does not a week make…
My favorite quotes, from one of my favorite movies (“Barefoot in the park” -Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, 1967, though I first saw it as a TV stage production starring Bess Armstrong and Richard Thomas in 1981) (I’m writing this from Seat 1A of AirTran flight 749 to Baltimore, which is just *WAY* too cool for words. [...]
A good weekend…
You know… it’s weekends like the one I spent right before I left for Seattle that make me remember that despite everything, life is good. Started out on Friday by taking the day off. Well not “off” but “work from home” without any actual work-from-home to do. So coffee with the wife, turned into a [...]
Week one…
Welcome to Seattle… So far, so good. Work is…working. I’m getting along with at least 3/4 of the people I’m teamed up with. The last one was born an asshole and just got bigger. But I’m used to dysfunctional organizations… Functional organizations don’t need consultants to come in and fix their problems. So asshole got [...]
Dear Teenager…
I’ve wiped your butt, cleaned up your puke, held you when you were sick, taught you to swim, and this is how you thank me…
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. [...]
She’s blogging….
Holy. Fuck. The wife has started blogging. Now I’m not technically allowed to associate with her online persona (this post will be an interesting test to see if she’s associating with mine.) because she wants this to be totally anonymous. So I set it all up, got her twitter accounts established, even pre-followed a few [...]
It’s not a school day…
My youngest son’s favorite whine/cry/scream when he doesn’t want to go to school.. “But it’s not a school day!” Yes, actually it is. The problem with having kids is that I have a good memory. I remember what *I* used to think as a kid. I’m also grown-up enough to know how incredibly wrong I [...]
It’s 2am and I’ve lost my mind.
It’s 2am and a whole number of random thoughts are rolling through my head. **I can’t sleep. I should be sleeping but I can’t. I have a long day and I know I have a long day but my brain is buzzing with everything from my realization that I’m back to not eating to the [...]
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