Month: June 2004

  • Goals

    a) submit resumes to ads from paper

    b) call headhunter re: sales job DONE

    c) followup with barter client 1

    d) followup with pay comes later client 2

    e) give sister some hosting options

    f) call techical staffer in NC DONE

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    This Morning

    Odd sleep last night. Woke at 4am but could not inspire myself out of bed. One day it will come! At 7am I was wishing Tommy didn’t have summer school.

  • Taffy

    The left half this way

    The right half that way

    Me up

    I down

    Myself twisted around

    The left hand types

    The right hand writes

    You yes

    She no

    Everyone else go go go

    One must create

    Two must destroy

    Hers for fun

    His to annoy

    Ours to live on in joy

    Yes

    No

    Maybe

    Don’t decide

    Ambivalence is crazy

  • Stormin

    Thunder! Storm cometh. Dog cowers. Boys play. Jeep gets wet.

  • Eek! Procrastination and powerfailures

    Hmm. The figures for the quote I’m trying to prepare were unsaved on a document that was lost when the power flicker last night shutdown my laptop. Oh well.

  • Audio Pleasure

    Cat Stevens “Tea for the Tillerman”

  • Focus Time

    Light the incense.

    Don the headphones.

    Turn up the music.

    And get the groove on.

    Do the dumb things

    You gotta do.

    Touch the puppet head!

  • Another industry goes to India

    Report finds outsourcing of religious services in US

    Facing shortage of priests, Roman Catholic Churches in the United States, Canada and Europe have for years been “outsourcing” religious services to India and other developing countries, says a newspaper report.
    Thanks to South Knox Bubba for the link.

  • When in VA keep your kids close

    Va. Tells Men: No Sex With Young Girls

    The state is posting billboards with messages such as “Isn’t she a little young?” as part of a campaign to dissuade men from having sex with underage girls.
    In 1999 and 2000 in Virginia, men over 18 were responsible for 219 births involving girls who were 13 and 14…
    The Washington Post requires registeration to view their articles. If this bothers you, http://www.bugmenot.com/ has a login and password already made for you to use.

  • Stats?

    What stats program do you use for blogging and what do you like about it? What do you dislike about it?

  • Today’s Goals

    a) replace that horrific profile picture (made with cell phone) with something that doesn’t look quite so psychotic

    b) submit resume to jobs in Sunday’s paper

    c) apply to Home Depot

    d) look at contract opportunities in Raleigh, Nashville, Asheville, Chattanooga, Altanta, Denver and Boulder

    e) evaluation/bid of web application project

    f) cook breakfast for boys DONE

    g) followup email to client DONE

    i) read a chapter in a book DONE

    j) short game of D and D with the boys DONE

    k) return phone call and email to recruiter regarding Raleigh NC job DONE

    l) clear memory of phone and see if its performance changes DONE still bites

    m) email resume to recruiter DONE

    n) get ad in papers announcing Monday’s Asperger Support Group

    o) cook lunch for the kids DONE

    p) cook dinner DONE

  • A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa…

    A New Day!

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    This Morning

    I woke at 3:30 and should have pulled myself out of bed. Regretfully I slept until 7am. Fortunately I woke then because I had to get Tommy out of bed.

    So once again I find myself questioning, “Why do I blog?” I began it as an anonymous outlet to vent; something cheaper than a shrink. But I found it had a life and refused to stay anonymous. Blogging is also fun and addictive! Do I use it to release too much emotional baggage? Should it be a technology report instead? In an irrational fit of anger or stress do I blurt out unreal hurtful feelings? My journals have always been magnets of negative feelings; best to get those out and keep the good feelings in! These questions arise because Tommy’s teacher has become a reader of Tommy’s blog (or a one time reader) and she is a nice person that tries hard with Tommy but I wonder (and will have to put aside some time to review the archives) if anything harsh was written. Our only frustrations with her have been in what appears a lack of communication. “How was Tommy’s day?” “We had a great day!” Meanwhile I’m hearing about Tommy swinging baseball bats at kids or setting off panic alarms in the main office. Now, that could be her style and in the big picture those incidents may not have been significant. We could also be spoiled by having such astounding communication from his 7th grade teacher that openly reported what was going on good or bad and frequently (almost daily) did it over the phone. She solicited our input and we accepted her suggestions. It could also be dictated by the administration that she minimize communication with the parents and our real beef is with the administration, not the teachers. The administration consistently fills our IEPs with what seems to be false promises or fails to provide for us some of the same accommodations that other more functional students than Tommy receive.

    “Does blogging hurt?” So has this blog interfered with my finding a job? I think not. I think my efforts have not been strong enough. I have considered taking the blog down while I search for a job but really once on the Internet, always on the Internet. Thanks to The Wayback Machine and regular backups once you publish, it’s alway there! Have I offended anyone? Probably. My views are not always mainstream and I’m certain someone has become irrationally offended. If so, my apologises. I am sure it will happen again.

    “Who reads this?” I originally was writing to myself. Then to my wife. Now I mostly write to my wife but I am happy that I have a somewhat regular readership and I am pondering ways to better write for them. Some of the readership I know and some I am surprised when I learn about their interest. I think having readers is exciting!

  • Today’s end

    Overall a good day. My cell phone even turned cooperative for a bit. I promised myself some reading. I’m going to do that now.

    A thunderstorm has rolled in. I should have had the top back on the Jeep. I’d kill for some materials to build a carport or garage. The sound of the rain is pleasant. Let it wash away the pains of the day.

    Roll in rain,

    to clear my brain

    Dust be gone,

    let me see again

    Mists rise,

    invigorate my soul

    Fog of the morn,

    run from my mind

    With a glimpse,

    of tomorrow’s bright sunshine

  • Dinner

    I love cooking dinner for my family! Particularly when dinner is breakfast. We cook 17 eggs to feed our family! I don’t think most families would comprehend buying that many much less preparing that many in one sitting. How about 2 gallons (7.5 liters) of milk every 1-2 days?

    I feel like we are in a movie!