Sunday/Monday were a bit stressful. Hadda get another jump to get home from work. Went to the airport to rent a car to get to work. (Upside-down on a pure financial basis, but there's longer-term reputation to be considered.) Cat Lady worked with the mechanics to take a second pass at the car. As I've been suspecting all along, it was an issue ( Read more... )

370 miles later.... We had a good two days; even added a seventh stop, walking to the Coney Island boardwalk before taking the Q train into Little Italy. The car was having issues starting, which we thought we had licked by replacing the battery when we returned, except it just failed to start again, and I had to call my day-job to let them know I ( Read more... )

Astute readers will have already noted that my blogging has fallen off lately. I've been in a bit of a funk in recent weeks, somewhat overwhelmed by the amount of work ahead of me, and also frustrated that medium-term pursuits have generated practically no income. Granted, my savings squirreled away from the past two years hasn't dropped off ( Read more... )

Fixed up a couple of bugs, (some of them not even mine), and now it looks like I ported the first (of two) Accountify files correctly. Admittedly, the other file is much larger, but now I have my arms wrapped around what's needed to get this done.

I like how Notepad++ is able to search over all files in a directory (and optionally, in all ( Read more... )

Both positive and negative drama at work, independent of each other. And now I have my own parking space next to the building door for a month; woo.

Hi, Willie, great to hear from you! Thanks for asking!

My day-job employer certainly did their very best in trying to keep me full time, showering me with gifts like free food, clothing, an iPad Mini, and an all-expense-paid trip for two to St. Thomas for being a top performer, with a highlight of swimming with a very large sea lion. Still, I ( Read more... )

OK, June 1. Deep breath. Official start of half-time status at my day-job ( Read more... )

Tuesday night a week ago, after we got back from my folks, I must've pulled something wrong in my neck when I slept, and it'd been in pain ever since. I got a professional neck massage this morning, and that took care of 80% of the problem. Some gentle exercises should take care of the rest ( Read more... )

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Started my last week at the day-job under full-time status. Due to the holiday and the rules that they have in order to collect double-time-and-a-half, I'll be working a full eight hours per day for the next three days. Some holidays are dead, but the phones just kept ringing today, mostly due to a new experiment they're trying where most people ( Read more... )