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NJM23 - Entry #5 in These Foolish Things
Prompt: National Donut Day! Do you like donuts? What’s your favorite? I mean, yeah. I actually love a nice cinnamon sugar donut or those little powdered mini donuts. I went to an event a couple o...
NJM23 - Entry #4 in These Foolish Things
You can find the NoJoMo prompts here! Prompt: If you could go back in time and visit one event in history, where would you go and why? I don’t know that I’d want to visit a historical site or som...
NJM23 - Entry #3 in These Foolish Things
You can find the NoJoMo prompts here. Prompt: It’s Friday! What are your plans for the weekend? Ah yes, Friday. The end of Week #3 at The Cool Cat Company. I swear, as structured as I feel like ...
NJM23 - Entry #2 in These Foolish Things
You can find the prompts here. What are your goals for this month? One of my goals every November is to write an entry a day. That's been a given for several years now since the OD days. I mean,...
NJM23 - Entry #1 in These Foolish Things
Well hello there! It’s that time of year…the entry-a-day time of year! I rarely use the prompts, but maybe I’ll try this year. Today’s prompt from our dear fellow PBer [kitkat] is: November 1 -...
Halloween 2023 in These Foolish Things
First payday of this new job! Grateful to be gainfully employed again! I’m starting to get a real feel for this gig. It’s going to be interesting because my boss truly is a Nazi in every single w...
Birthday Weekend Recap in These Foolish Things
The birthday was Thursday. Here’s what happened the rest of the weekend: Friday: Half-ass worked all day. I honestly can’t remember much of what I did, if I did anything at my new job. Isn’t that...
My 56th Birthday in These Foolish Things
On Thursday, I woke up to my fifty-sixth birthday. I gave a little kiss to the dog (she had been at the foot of the bed, sound asleep), and I said, “It’s my birthday!” with a hint of enthusiasm t...
Updates on Various (and Nudity!) in These Foolish Things
New Job: Tomorrow morning starts Week #2 at Cool Cat Company. I have a big meeting with the founder in the morning, which will require me to spend the first hour just getting my shit together as ...
Day 4 at Cool Cat in These Foolish Things
So far so good…but I don’t even have an email set up yet, so I’m really just playing around and learning the product categories. I like it right now, but I know the storm is coming. I’m bracing m...
Second Day in These Foolish Things
Today is my second day at my new job and I’m sitting outside on the patio of a Starbucks while several other remote workers have meetings around me. It’s a little weird being two time zones away ...
I Start Tomorrow! in These Foolish Things
Well guys, I start my next job tomorrow. Fully remote, and I was able to negotiate $5K more annually, which still doesn’t cover my portion of the medical insurance premiums, but I’m making due un...
Negotiations, or Nothing Is Easy in These Foolish Things
Ughhhh. Why is negotiating for a job so stressful?! In a series of stressful events, I’ve not only gotten an offer from the company I’ve been talking with (let’s call them The Cool Cat Company, o...
MOHS Blows in These Foolish Things
Yesterday I had mohs surgery on my shoulder. That nasty ol’ squamous cell bugger had gotten bigger and crustier since the original derm did the biopsy. I can’t believe how fast a fucking skin can...
Last Week's Anxious Snippets and Big News! in These Foolish Things
Monday, October 2nd: Had what would have been my 3rd or 4th interview with a company I’ve been talking with for a while. It’s a lot of talk, talk, talk, and finally I talked with the guy who’d be...
Sunday Morning Ritual in These Foolish Things
Sitting here at this lovely, lovely coffee shop with massive patios overlooking the lake and tons of outdoor seating and live jazz. Sipping my half-caf bottomless drip coffee and tapping out an e...
I Can Not Today in These Foolish Things
Read the updates to the previous entry for what happened with the interview at the Home Decor company. I am shattered because I’m just so tired of the bullshit happening. Companies need to get th...
Video Interview Soon! *** Last Update in These Foolish Things
I have a video interview in less than an hour and I’m sitting in front of my computer turning the camera on and looking to make sure I look okay and that my background (my actual kitchen and livi...
Sunday Morning Live From the Coffee Place in These Foolish Things
And now I’m sitting at my favorite coffee place tapping this out, sipping a half-caf drip coffee with nothing in it (fasting! More on that in a sec), and waiting for the live music to start at ar...
Updates from a Brewery in These Foolish Things
Interesting Work Spaces: I’m typing this out at a brewery. That’s right - I’m sitting here drinking a beer and writing this entry while others around me work on their laptops as well. I think if ...
Getting Stuff Done...And Then Not in These Foolish Things
Two steps forward…one step back. At least I’m making some progress, I guess? This morning I had a coffee meeting with a woman who works at one of my target local companies that I’d LOVE to work f...
RAD: Super Happy Guy in These Foolish Things
The last of my later-RADs. This one happened two weeks ago: Name: Super Happy Guy Introduction Platform: Bumble Age: 52 Relationship Status: I can’t remember? I know he’s single for sure, but I...
RAD: The Mysterious Housesitter in These Foolish Things
←another RAD that way Name: Mysterious Housesitter Introduction Platform: Bumble Age: 54, I think Relationship Status: Divorced, one son Job: Consulting for food companies - seems like he’s als...
RAD: The Pole Dancer in These Foolish Things
Name: The Pole Dancer Introduction Platform: Bumble Age: 51 Relationship Status: Divorced, adult twin girls Job: tech sales Lives: In a beautiful neighborhood a few miles from my place Length o...
What's the Worry? in These Foolish Things
What a lazy Saturday - where did the day go? Well, for one thing, I slept until well after 8am. I hadn’t planned to do that, but I woke at 2am with a worried brain and it took me quite some time...