restlessmind's diary

I covet fuck you money

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FatWallet's finance forum is interesting. It's eye opening. Often I feel like I learn quite a bit about finances. Often I feel like I'm hearing a lot of bullshit. Nonetheless, it tells me thi (more)

My own long, dark tea-time of the soul

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The end of the workday. This is the time of day where the loneliness lurks.

The halls are quiet and I am the only one around. Granted, I sit my office and work, I don't see a lot of folks, but there's a hubbub outside. Peop (more)

My internet experience is lacking

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When we first got our broadband, we had Speakeasy DSL. I could run servers. I had speed and reliability. Alas, we moved so I had to leave it behind, and now that they're a subsidiary of Best Buy I (more)

Coincidence

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On vacation roadtrips through the south, Marilynn and I had a joke between us about the "ivy monsters" that we saw everywhere roadside. The joke comes and goes, and had somewhat faded into memory because we haven't gone any further east than western (more)

At a local maximum

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My mood is dipping up and down, seemingly at random.

At work, everything is being a problem of some sort or another. The fiscal year ended at the end of June, so a lot of projects had to happen last month for artificial reasons (being on someone&# (more)

This rut is so deep that a Caterpillar couldn't pull us out

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I failed.

I was all full of spit and vinegar and was going to go home and do all this work on my computer... and then what'd I do? I caved.

Well, I went home. Marilynn and I chatted (more)

The itch is back

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The itch is back. You know the one — the one I get occasionally to do something. Write some software that has nothing to do with managing computers (or rewriting it because "the branding is off") and has everything to do with things I mys (more)

Overwhelmed

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It's been a while.

I won't pretend saying that I should have been writing. In reality, I haven't been motivated to do so. I haven't even had anything to say.

Motivation is a real problem with me these days. I have no energy (more)

Download my unofficial Windows 2000 DST patch!

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Not so much an entry as a quick announcement.

At work we still have about 1200 Windows 2000 workstations left that haven't been migrated to Windows XP yet, but we're too cheap to buy the official Microsoft patc (more)

My back of the envelope, wild-assed guess: we got hosed

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I've been stressing out ever since I we got our W-2s at work. I do a quick calculation based on what we have on our forms and the standard deduction to see what happens with our taxes, roughly. This year I showed (more)