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NoJoMo 1 in NoJoMo 2014
List your schools, through high school. Describe a memory from each. As an Army brat, I attended a bunch of schools growing up. I thought maybe I should try to write something down about each of...
Writing Prompts 3/3 in NoJoMo 2014
What are your plans for the evening following what was surely a long week? Are you satisfied with how the year went? November 22nd is a big day for a graying segment of the population; calculate ...
Writing Prompts 2/3 in NoJoMo 2014
Today is Veterans’ Day in the US, and Armistice Day everywhere else in the civilized world. 2014 is the hundredth anniversary of “the great war.” Write what you know about World War I. Do you ...
What It Is in For Public Consumption
Somebody is using Andrew WK’s “Party Hard” in a TV spot. Now I wanna listen to that record. Might be some motivation for my rather low existence. Speaking of that.... http://control-h.org/blog/w...
Here, but really not in For Public Consumption
Again, horrible with reading and writing. I dunno -- just feels different. I will say that this is better than the other one, but neither induce me to write. I am alive. Still no job, but I t...
I am a bad person, in For Public Consumption
and I should feel bad. But I really don't. I've spent much of the past two weeks dealing with transitioning my own shitty blog to new digs, and looking for a new job. As a result, I haven't ...
I'm from the government, and I'm here to help in For Public Consumption
Went to a resume-writing seminar at the Employment Commission yesterday. There were only six of us in the class. Time to bang my head on the desk... "Make sure your cover letter is something i...
Left Behind in For Public Consumption
I'm playing around with CentOS for the first time in probably close to five years. It's not easy when your vision sucks. Things are different than I remember them. And the dislike of RedHat is...
Survey in For Public Consumption
Punch the monkey and win!!1! Do you like baking? I’ve basically been banned from the kitchen. But even before, I didn’t bake often. t's one skill you really admire in a person? Directness. Ho...
Early Saturday in For Public Consumption
As I said in my FO §, I had another MS flare this week. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were spent getting steroid infusions. I feel pretty worn out. After all that was finished yesterday, we ...
In less than a week in For Public Consumption
Two of the things I wrote about here came true. I still haven't found a job. sigh I'm lost trying to help my wife with her calculus homework. Decades since I tried to use any of that stuff doe...
Snow Day in For Public Consumption
These are a lot more satisfying when you're skipping out on school or work. When you're unemployed, they're just another day where you can't go anywhere.
Day 30 in NoJoMo 2013
Last one of these. It's sometimes nice when things come to an end. Not so nice? That my friends at the market across the street are probably calling it quits. I've made more than my fair shar...
Day 29 in NoJoMo 2013
Thanksgiving came and went. I misunderstood my mom; I thought she was planning on doing dinner at her house Saturday, so we went to my wife's parents' place. Oops. Listening to the shock on T...
Day 28 in NoJoMo 2013
I was kind of dreading this entry, and there the prompt is, staring at me..... I took yesterday off, too, kind of unplanned. I think I'd been all that I can be, so what was the point? I have t...
Day 27 in NoJoMo 2013
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. People I care about are struggling. We're certainly not living as comfortably as we were last year. It's not a happy situation. One of the things I've thought about ...
Day 26 in NoJoMo 2013
Writing early today because I'm not leaving for work until about an hour after I normally do. Chance to get today's writing out of the way, so I don't have to worry about it this afternoon. It'...
Day 25 in NoJoMo 2013
Today was incredibly trying. Between ineffective communication, and omniscient sots whipping out the letters after their names, I'm spent. I do know what I'm doing, and I can prove it to you. ...
Day 24 in NoJoMo 2013
It's Sunday. It's early. I fell asleep way early last night, and missed Drunk Uncle on SNL (who favorited my tweet wondering whether he'd be on; it is Thanksgiving, after all). My idea about h...
Day 23 in NoJoMo 2013
Awake early on a Saturday again. It's supposed to get really cold this weekend, really for the first time this year. What to do today (aside from scouring classifieds)? Tempted to try and ma...
Day 22 in NoJoMo 2013
Things progressed a bit more today. I'm still unhappy with the general direction, but I do hope people are seeing where my experience is valuable. At the same time, I'm woefully under-compensat...
Day 21 in NoJoMo 2013
I'm still amazed by the lengths people will go to in order to do what they know is wrong. I really don't care about splitting hairs. I don't want to regret the work I'm doing. It's incredibly...
Day 21 in NoJoMo 2013
Day 20 -- two-thirds of the way through. Yesterday's entry is slamming hard. People do understand that I do know what I'm supposed to be doing, even without tons of artificial fanfare. I do fi...
Day 18 in NoJoMo 2013
Another fun day at work. I really hate digging up my past work to show people what the fuck they're supposed to be doing, but sometimes I have to. There's no other way. I also don't like study...
Day 17 in NoJoMo 2013
Still working this, and that I haven't missed one sort of implies that I'll finish. How do I do that? What characteristics define you and make you unique? I think I am good at improvising -- f...
