I'm looking for full-time work. The majority of my experience is in Linux administration and PHP development (recently with a Drupal focus), but I'm a polymath: there's little on the internet I haven't at least brushed past, and I'm an expert on several fields within it, ranging everywhere from computer hardware to social trends. I'm entirely self- ( Read more... )

My wife Reesa (eposia) was recently diagnosed with an aggressive malignancy in her left breast. The last four days have been a blur of doctors, social workers, friends, family, grief, and baked goods. The third most common reaction to tragic news, after "Let me know if there's anything I can do to help" and "Keep your chin up", appears to be "Here, I ( Read more... )

One of the side benefits of an overfull todo list is that sometimes you don't notice you've achieved a long-term goal until you're swimming in the consequences. I've been drafted into lead developer on a Drupal project, a "local information" site with some interesting stuff under the hood. We're going to try to soft-launch tomorrow ( Read more... )

Mediation . . . went. Can't say it went well, but at least I've got some promises in writing that will (hopefully) make calling Dylan a little easier, and ensure I have contact with his counselor. Trying to sympathize and get through to someone throughly convinced that you're an evil bastard is draining. Thankfully, the mediator herself was quite ( Read more... )

Santa Rampage was a blast. I shall have to explore this "drunken" thing further; it's been forever since I last tried, and it seemed to go okay.

However:
I'm glad that y'all have the free time, energy, and dosh to prepare for costume parties. Snide commentary about how obviously I don't wins you no points.

Thanks to everyone who wasn't a turd ( Read more... )

1. It's probably a bad sign that upending my guts was a relief, as it meant I could skip work.
2. Being violently ill still sucks.
3. Since the first of the year, I have written just under fourteen hundred emails, read (or skimmed through) fourteen thousand, and junked (mostly automagically) another twelve thousand. I also have sixteen hundred bookmarks. ( Read more... )

You know what? Don't read this, especially if you've shared my bed, or hoped to, or could have. I'm in an ugly mood, have been for a while, and you don't really deserve it. But I'm sick of pretending it doesn't exist ( Read more... )

A couple things I saw, as seen through the lenses of others. Thanks to annamaul93 and mrfang for the pictures.


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However, it was a close one; two days of placation to the porcelain deities, plus another in trepidation of invoking their further wrath. I'm on the mend now; I'd apologize for blowing everyone off, but you're probably better off having missed me . . .

You know who they should get to be police if they really want to reduce crime? Old black mommas. I once had an old black momma scold me for smoking on the highway, miming the toke as I passed and twitching her finger back and forth as I glanced in my rear view mirror. The level of perception and reaction necessary to pull that off is generally ( Read more... )