Woden’s Day
Saturday, July 5th, 2003Hey it’s been a few weeks. Oddly, not much has changed. I quit smoking on the 3rd, which’ll be a week tomorrow. Rock on. Every time I do this, I’m pissed that I didn’t start sooner. The trick I think is to just not go back. Working out helps. So does minimalization of caffeine intake. I behave more normally too. The whole ADD thing doesn’t seem to apply as much if I’m not drinking coffee and smoking. Go figure! 
Mom’s coming in this weekend. Should be fun. I took Friday off to clean and such. Chubb, an insurance company, is outsourcing their IT department. The company I work for is outsourcing the Mail Room. Dear readers, let’s hope I don’t reflect 3 months from now and say that I didn’t see the writing on the wall. I see it, and it creates a certain level of fear.
I love fear, because it usually motivates me to a breakthrough. Speaking of which, I found some cool MELL tools while working on one of my projects late Thursday, which may be a sign from God that the MCSE thing won’t be as hard as originally thought.
I’ll see how things pan out over the next few weeks. If I don’t take a test by month’s end, y’all can send “lazy dumbass” emails to yours truly. Blogger is now owned by Google, which rocks. Their like, my two favorite companies, and their related. Grooovy.
I’d love to work for Google. I still wear my Google T-shirt, even though the pits are turnin’ yellow. I don’t care. For those of you wondering, if you just keep wearing yellow-pitted shirts, they will eventually eat away. Some one told me that. In a conversation over dinner. We were eating soup. It was gross.
Speaking of gross, I’m grossly behind on my book, and luckily my publisher hasn’t called. Maybe she got out of the publishing business and went into pig farming, my career of choice. - after meteorology, of course.
But computing pays the bills, so that’s how it is. Tall ships are parading along the lakeshore right now. It’s a great time to work in the tallest building around - our view of the lakefront is so spectacular. The partners have even gotten into the spirit, and set aside our largest conference room facing the lake for the occasion.
So things aren’t all bad. My long hours and work product are being noticed at levels I hadn’t imagined. I’m finding balance when I can. That’s about all I can do. Saving up for the last big debt is becoming painful.
It’s really hard to save money payperiod to payperiod. But hey, what can you do? Til later.. Jimmy