a) I do still have many many spaces open in the Ask Me A Question In February sweepstakes. It's obviously okay that people haven't been banging down my door to ask questions, because the Post Every Day In February ship has apparently sailed, but ( Read more... )

I tried to give the December post-a-day meme a shot, but a lot was going on then - and I was having trouble with comment notifications. I've still got a fair amount going on, but my comments are back, so I figure, what the heck, ask me a question and one day in February I'll go on about it for a while. :-)

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So wow: it looks like I have not posted in the month of November. I started the new job at the beginning of the month and stuff has kept me wicked busy since then, and the whole thing kind of got away from me. Let's remedy that.

Pick a date below and give me a topic - it can be anything, although topics in which you know I am interested are ( Read more... )

Caught up with schoolwork and taking a break from work-work to let my eyes refocus for a minute, here is that age meme that's been going around, where you compare how your life was once to how it is now.
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( This is long and pretty raw - I'm not going to lock it up just now, but how about I cut away from it so you don't have naked vulnerability all over your screen unless you want it there. )

Today is my father's birthday.

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Today is the last triple-repeat date - 12/12/12 - most of us will see in our lifetimes. If I'm not mistaken, the next such date will be in 88 years and three weeks, on January 1, 2101. So it's likely I won't be there. :-P Don't know why I mention that, but it's been coming up from time to time in the news, so there: I've mentioned it ( Read more... )

I will allow myself to do this meme for a very small set of reasons, or with a small set of rationales, or something. a) I got it from
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I raised my monitors here at work by about three inches. I don't think this ergonomic solution will solve all my problems, but it is my fervent hope that it will solve some of them - I wasn't exactly hunched over before, but now I sort of feel like I'm looking up at my screen (at least the top of the screen) like some sort of acolyte, so we'll see ( Read more... )