Geeze, nothing for nearly a month and a half, and that shortly after a post talking about how I should write here weekly.

As a quick update-which I seriously need to get back into the habit of doing here, don’t I?-I’m heading to Florida starting this coming Friday the 18th, and will be there for a week. My new job is somewhat less crazy now than ( Read more... )

About halfway through October I went up to Seattle to visit shaterri and quarrel for a long weekend, which involved visiting a few Seattle neighborhoods, walking around downtown, and visiting Vancouver and Granville Island. And-unsurprisingly, given that Shaterri is at least as much of a foodie as I am-various restaurants, from Poppy to Spur. I spent some time at ( Read more... )

Time for another update, and also time for my quasi-regular reminder that if you’re interested in more minutae from me, follow my Twitter feed; my journaling is as light as it is in part because I just throw the little things I’m doing up on Twitter rather than collect them and write about them here. One may argue that Twitter can’t adequately ( Read more... )

I opened my last entry, back on June 17, with “it’s been almost a month since I’ve updated my LiveJournal.” Well, now it’s been, uh, more than a month.

I went to tugrik’s big shop shindig (to borrow jakebe’s word) on Saturday and had a great time. I’ve driven all over hell the last couple of days, so it seems, between here in Foster City, jadedfox’s place in Alameda ( Read more... )

It’s been almost a month since I’ve updated my LiveJournal. I see I wrote then, “I feel like I should be taking an entirely computer-free day, but that’s hard for me to manage.” Both parts of that statement are even more true right now, but especially the first one.

It’s a kind of perverse state to be in: I’ve been working with computers almost ( Read more... )

It’s been a quiet week here in Lake Wo… sorry, where was I?

I’ve been curiously unmotivated in job-seeking right now. It may in part be the time of the year; even in good economic times, November and December are bad times to be looking at anything other than seasonal retail work. (And in the current economic times I’m not sure how many stores are ( Read more... )

I’ve applied at a few positions so far, haven’t heard back from any of them. For now, I’m trying to be selective in where I shove the ol’ résumé out to again, like I was during my layoff period in 2006. I am of course mindful that the job I ended up with for two years was one that contacted me, not the reverse; that’s often been the case in jobs I’ ( Read more... )

Yesterday I twittered:

Feeling peculiarly Zen about unemployment. “Lack of work. Huh. Let’s go out wandering.”

This pretty much sums up my last few days. After some times my work has ended I’ve been depressed bordering on devastated, but this wasn’t one of those times.

I think part of that might be the feeling that it’s not due to anything I ( Read more... )

As some of you (at least those of you following my Twitter feed) have heard, I was laid off from my job yesterday.

I have a tendency to do a lot of navel-gazing at this sort of event. Over the last couple of weeks I felt like I was going pretty slow, dallying on things that shouldn’t have taken me nearly as much time to complete. And I suspect I’m ( Read more... )

Work has calmed down, to the degree that the SaaS project I’ve been working on passed its demo milestone and indeed its first demo. This doesn’t mean things stop, not by any stretch, but it does mean that I have a chance to catch my breath.

The first three days of this week were a highwater mark of suck for me, at least for the last 12 months or ( Read more... )