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Boosting the signal for one of my favorite people
My great friend Elizabeth Leggett (Or, as she's known here on the rare occasions that she posts, archway has, over the last year, created a beautiful set of paintings conceived as a Tarot deck. To bring her art into the envisioned form of a physical deck, she is running a Kickstarter campaign. Go take a look! I've been watching this for the last year as ( Read more... ) -
Glass, again!
Wednesday this week I had, I do believe, my best night ever at the glass studio. I made three bowls, all of which included both color and cane, and this time I trusted the process and it worked!! (This is in contrast to last week, where the best piece of the night was ruined in the last 30 seconds, because I didn't trust myself to finish it off ( Read more... ) -
Not all jobs, for sure, but sometimes...
In my weird world of IT contracting, it's easy to switch jobs often, it's easy to find work that sounds fun, and it's REALLY easy to find work that, once you get into the routine, will bore you off your ass. I know a lot of people who are miserable in their jobs because they've become bored ( Read more... ) -
Back in the Gaffer's seat
The Gaffer is, in this case, the one driving when we're making something in the glass studio ( Read more... ) -
Sequestration: Now, I'm job hunting.
As I'm sure you've heard a lot about if you live as close to Washington, DC as I do, the federal budget's Sequestration circus is causing a lot of people some heartache. Some (idiotic) members of Congress were "shocked and appalled" that cutting back the budget of the FAA meant long delays at major airports, and claimed that they had been taken ( Read more... ) -
Well, that sure felt good...
I've been hammered at work lately. (Lots of work to do, I'm not drinking on the job!) When I joined the team nearly three years ago I was the junior member of 6 people. Now, I'm the only one who is left on my contract, and my former boss is able to help me out a little, but mainly I'm now doing nearly *everything* for half of the computer systems ( Read more... ) -
Sneaky exercise... I win?
I feel like Buttercup post-wedding in The Princess Bride, when she's baffled that she's married. She didn't intend for it to happen, it just sort of.. happened ( Read more... ) -
I may have outgrown iTunes...
Hi, my name is Benjamin, and I have way too much music ( Read more... ) -
My life as an engineer
In the very odd work of engineering contracting, I work for one company (A) who in turn rents me out to a different, competing company (B). At Company B I work on a team of half a dozen people, some of whom work for B and some from other companies like mine (C, D ( Read more... )
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