Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in life in general on Mar 7th, 2010
The collection calls have stopped. As I suspected, it was a simple case of my phone number being on the wrong paperwork.
On Wednesday I decided to try calling Terry from the surgeon’s office during business hours. She hadn’t returned my call from a few week’s earlier, so on Monday I had left a more brief [...]
Posted in life in general on Mar 2nd, 2010
I wake up naturally. The aroma of cheese steak remnants is everywhere, my head three feet away from the living room table where the morning’s festivities ended.
This is not a bad way to wake up.
Posted in life in general on Feb 27th, 2010
Over the past six days I’ve received as many collection calls from Transworld Systems. I’ve missed most of these calls, but strangely they continue before the voice mail prompts and have been recorded.
This is an important message from Transworld Systems. The law requires that we notify you that this is a debt collection company. This [...]
Posted in life in general, plans on Feb 21st, 2010
This week just didn’t want to end. I feel like I haven’t had time to write, relax, watch movies, or tend to things around the house. A 60 hour week will do that, I guess. I still have about a dozen hours to make up from all of the snow, so next week will be [...]
Posted in complaints, idiots, life in general on Feb 6th, 2010
It’s just snowed. Maybe still snowing. You’re about to shovel your driveway. But where to put all of it?
Maybe you have room to shovel it to the side of the driveway. Super. Maybe you’re going to pile it into the bed of your truck. Great. Maybe you’re going to say “to hell with county ordinance” [...]
Posted in life in general on Feb 6th, 2010
The last big snow, we all bitched about how we couldn’t get out. In retrospect, that was nothing. We could have gotten out. This time around — with over three feet of snow in less than 24 hours — no one is going anywhere without a plow, although I just got a report about some [...]
Posted in life in general on Feb 5th, 2010
After all the hype and the panic and the long lines of cars entering and exiting Walmart, it took almost four hours of snowfall before it started sticking to the street. It still isn’t sticking to the sidewalk, but it’s finally here.
We’ve got an eighth cup of milk left in the jug, but we’re stocked [...]
Posted in healthcare, life in general on Feb 2nd, 2010
General anesthesia is total unconsciousness.
I’ve had a couple minor and one major surgery done over the past fifteen years, the last of which evoked some questions from family and friends. A handful of procedures doesn’t make me an expert by any means, but I decided to document it best as I can remember. So here [...]
Posted in life in general, music, television on Jan 29th, 2010
Inspired by a fellow blogger’s weekly Thursday post, here’s a few things that rock.
Pre-heating the bed with the electric blanket.
House, M.D.: Season 5, minus one episode in particular. Particularly Locked In, for camerawork and perspective (and a nice performance by Mos Def).
Amusing late-night emails that close out the day just right, with a smile on [...]
Posted in life in general on Jan 27th, 2010
If snow — or worse, the mere threat of it — causes a cancellation of this weekend’s festivities, I’m going to be irked.
It’ll be the second time this season.
Eyes to the skies, please. And some crossed fingers.
Posted in college, gaming, life in general, photography, travel on Jan 13th, 2010
A bandwidth-intense peek at the last few days.
Though not pictured, the weekend got off to a nice start at a happy hour organized by a coworker. You simply can’t go wrong with a margarita on the rocks, a plate of fried pickles, and reuniting with some folks you haven’t seen in a while (and meeting [...]
Posted in life in general on Jan 8th, 2010
I’m not prone to losing things but recent events have gotten me thinking about other objects that have gone missing.
Evil Empire, an album by Rage Against the Machine. I miss the hard riffs, slapping bass, and electric guitar effects. I think it was lifted from my CD wallet by a student while working at Severna [...]
Posted in life in general, television on Jan 5th, 2010
I had no idea that Travis Pastrana intended to set a new record on New Year’s Eve by driving his Subaru off the Long Beach pier, so we didn’t tune in to ESPN to watch him. But he did it. He’s got a television show on MTV called Nitro Circus. Produced by Johnny Knoxville, it’s [...]
Posted in life in general on Dec 31st, 2009
When people try to come up with a New Year’s resolution, they look back at the past year. Sometimes it’s easy to pick out areas where we weren’t our best, coming up with resolutions to improve those areas. Sometimes it isn’t so easy. Instead of looking back over the last year, I figured I’d look [...]
Posted in life in general on Dec 27th, 2009
I’ve been thinking about my career path. Although I have recently changed courses (from a system/network administration/engineering track to the software engineering track), I’m still on the same path. I still solve unique problems using a varied set of skills. Despite that it’s a stable and visible path, sometimes I feel like I’m missing out.
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