A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.
Self knowledge just a click away – Personality tests proliferate on the Web
Man fights citation for carrying anti-Bush sign
Story is tattoo much
This author has written a story and will have 2095 volunteers each tattoo one word of the story on any part of their body of their choosing. The completed work will never be revealed to the public. Only the participants will know the story. The author wonders if a caste system will evolve around the “the”s, “a”s and “and”s.
Ran over a stump trying to bush hog the hill with the lawn mower. Having already discovered a door hinge, large sticks, a 4×4, and several other foreign objects the blade sighed heavily and bent at a 90 degree angle.
The other lawn mower still won’t run. I think the fuel line is clogged.
Switched to Round Up. Those hand pumps bite.
Still trying to address my wife’s email problem.
Had a meeting with a client to discuss an ecommerce system. Thrilling conversation. Left tired but jazzed.
Updated resume sent to a recruiter that I thought had given up on me.
My cat rolled over in her sleep and fell off the monitor onto the keyboard full-sizing Mozilla. Stood their on the keyboard for a second trying to figure out where she was then hopped right back on the monitor. Her antics are enough that I’d consider not getting a flat panel monitor. It’s nice to have the gargoyle helping me code.
Dropped in on a recruiter I contacted in Dec and visited in Jan then never heard from again. We discussed that I was still in the system and how the rates in Knoxville for certain skills like DBA work have plummeted. So a dba making $85k 3 years ago might only get $55k today.
I don’t completely buy that picture but instead of writing them off I encouraged them to market me in different ways and changed my salary expectations.
Email sent to friend begging referrals.
Updated resume at resume and work samples.
Got information to someone in Israel that is referring me to work with someone in the UK on an hourly contract. I love this small world!
Got pricing questions answered for a product that I can resell. This is probably my best avenue for restablishing myself complete with residual income potential. It’s pretty much a product I wanted to develop without me having to put the time and effort into the development and instead being able to focus on the sales and support–what? You mean exactly what I’ve been asking for?!
Why does EVERYTHING take so much unnecessary extra effort for me?!
Poverty is a trap. Once you get in a situation all the energy that you need to get out of that situation has to go into defending that situation or explaining that situation making it near impossible to overcome. Of course, all the people with the money want this.
