Archive for August, 2004
Thursday, August 26th, 2004
Yup, still here
I’ve been spending most of my time with my nose buried in Microsoft textbooks for my upcoming MCSE exams, so I haven’t had much time to blog anything… and then I always feel compelled to write a marathon post when I do, recapping everything that happened since my last one, and it’s so much to [...]
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Saturday, August 7th, 2004
That’s “Loser” with a capital L
Because one of my coworkers has been in training all week, I’ve been going in to work a half hour earlier, which means getting up earlier and moving faster in order to get all the feeding, medications, and other morning rituals done in time. I hate getting startled by the alarm clock, so much that [...]
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Friday, August 6th, 2004
my steering wheel now has fingernail marks carved into it
I may or may not have ever mentioned that I don’t deal well with traffic. I am deathly afraid of Interstate Highways and it is a small miracle I have survived moving to Dallas. My quality of life (and probably my lifespan) improved greatly when I decided to just start taking surface roads and staying [...]
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004
UGH
From the alert that just popped up in my Desktop ‘Weatherbug’ which currently reads 101 with a 109 heat index:
HEAT ADVISORY FOR DALLAS AND TARRANT COUNTIES REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 7 PM CDT WEDNESDAY
Urgent - Weather Message National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 203 PM CDT Tue Aug 3 2004
1100 - Dallas - Tarrant - 203 [...]
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004
Why won’t anyone pay me to sit around, eat junk, and drink homemade Sangria?
We had a couple of days off together last week and it was a really nice break from Joy’s erratic work hours and the usual busy-ness here. Only problem is that I got very used to it and am having trouble adapting back to the ‘real’ world. Maybe we just need to play the lottery [...]
