Why are the fingers crossed? I sent off a resume’ today. A friend of mine works for a local web design company and told me that they were looking for some tech support help. After getting the contact info, I printed off a resume’, pieced together a cover letter, and sent the whole thing off. [...]

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After plunking around with WordPress for the last month or so, I finally figured out how to get into the CSS for the theme I’m using and change the background photo. It originally had some kind of desert thing going on, but I was able to get in and put something more familiar in there. [...]

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It looks like I’m finally starting to get the hang of this blog thing, to a point. The best time I have to post updates is late at night during a short bit of downtime while I’m at work. Frankly, there isn’t much else to do at this time of night anyway. What happened over [...]

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OK, here I am at work on a Thursday night. Not my usual spot. My wife normally works this shift, but she’s been ordered by her doctor to take the night off. Here’s why. Earlier this evening, after doing a bunch of running around in Traverse City, we headed home so she could get some [...]

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I’ve seen this one posted on the boards repeatedly and I thought it merited a quote here for posterity’s sake. Not sure who originally wrote it, so no idea as to who to credit for its creation. Anyway, here it is…A Day In The Life Of Joe Conservative. Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare [...]

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Another workweek kicks off (and kicks us in the butt). The kids are back to school after the long weekend and the house goes quiet at midday again. Kinda puts this whole graveyard-shift thing into perspective. I’d put more in today, but I worked last night and I gotta get some rest. In the meantime, [...]

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Weird weekend. BUSY weekend. A few folks called in sick, so I ended up working most of the weekend. Woke up on Sunday to find it raining and a thin layer of ice on everything – such that nobody was getting anywhere without sliding all over the place. My wife was walking out to her [...]

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Today is my second-to-youngest son’s 8th birthday. Time to get out and have some fun this afternoon! The kids are out of school for the day, so we might go sledding this afternoon and then go into town for dinner tonight. Ever have one of those days when you have a song stuck in your [...]

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Yeah, I admit it – I have a Facebook page and a MySpace page. Amongst the college kids on Facebook and the annoying little teenybops on MySpace, you find…me. Why? I consider the sites necessary evils, I guess. OK, so what does a guy pushing middle-age need with Facebook? Put yourself in my shoes. I’m [...]

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After many weeks of trials and tribulations (and finally getting my hands on a decent laptop), I decided to try this blog thing again. As time goes on and as the opportunities randomly present themselves, I should be coming in here to jot down random thoughts, ideas, and rants about various things. Hopefully, I will [...]

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