Rewriting fiction

OK, I’ve been slacking off the posting lately, and it has to stop. Things at work have been stressful on the one hand, and boring on the other. Stressful because people are being let go and my department tends to get hit pretty hard when the company is doing badly. Boring because at least half [...]

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Work woes

I haven’t written much recently because it’s been a pretty stressful time at work. People are being let go. Rumor has it that they want to cut the workforce at our location by 1/3. Two colleagues I worked fairly closely with were laid off without warning after being lured into a false sense of security [...]

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Love is creating spreadsheets

While I wait for work to come in this morning, I thought I’d write about last week’s blogroll question (I’m behind already!): What do you eat when you’re alone? I like this question. Meals are almost always a compromise, aren’t they? Last night for example. We were out looking at cars (we’re thinking about replacing [...]

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Of eyeliner and cars

I am fed up with my eyeliner pencil. The flipping thing needs to be sharpened fairly regularly, otherwise I look like I’m headed to some kind of heavy metal concert and not to work. But the “lead” is kinda sticky, and it coats the inside of the pencil sharpener. Result: the next time you go to sharpen the [...]

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Why does my computer clock keep resetting itself!!!

Every week or so, my computer clock resets itself to Central Standard Time.  Then I set it back to Central European Time.  Then it goes back to CST.  And I set it back to CET.  Why!??!  Is it longing for its homeland (it’s a Dell)?  Is it retarded?  Does it think I don’t know what [...]

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