Eeeeerrrrrrrrrrp! Eeeeeerrrrrrrrrp! There goes Simon again, with the velociraptor noises. Simon is a co-worker, with a case of acid reflux. I guess that hits a lot of people as they get older. If you needed a poster child for the mid-life crisis, Simon would be your guy! Granted, I’m a few months older than him, [...]

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I was coerced into taking a trip to Springfield, Missouri this week. It turned out to be a good time, and while I did work, it was nice weather and it was nice to get out of the office! It certainly did break the routine, which was good. I packed and drove to the office [...]

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It’s a gray and rainy day, in the Midwest… I’ve been keeping very busy with writing my new security courses. Busy, like up to 1AM every night kind of thing. Makes it hard to get up for work in the morning! This has been going on for about 2-3 weeks. So, I’m looking forward to [...]

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I don’t mind Monday, even when it’s on Tuesday. In fact, the past month has seemed like a month of Mondays (with a couple Wednesdays thrown in). I am sore and tired this morning. Sore from moving huge, ancient cathode-ray tube television sets from the middle ages (1993), and from moving a huge entertainment center [...]

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I’m having a tough time finding holiday spirit today. I’d settle for a stiff drink. Yesterday, I spent the whole day trying to get my computer to work. That was frustrating enough. I had a simple request to upgrade my Adobe Acrobat Pro to the latest version, and it caused no end of grief. Today, [...]

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I wasn’t going to make it to the office today. No chance in hell. I don’t know if it was the rich restaurant food, compared to my usual boring fare, or if I caught a bug somewhere. In any case, I felt like crap this morning. I was able to write up some stuff for [...]

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My back is bothering me today, so I stayed home to work this morning and I thought I’d take a break and update you on what I’ve been up to lately. Let me start off assuring you that my back is ok. It is just strange that in the past day, whenever I sneeze, my [...]

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Here is a letter I recently wrote (sanitized) to my team leader at work. It points out some issues that many are facing, in Corporate America, as people are asked to work longer hours, do more with less and do it in a smaller workspace. I think the way to counter this trend, is to [...]

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In an article over on Art of Manliness, the subject that came up was, “Are the Suburbs Killing Your Manhood?” This is a worthy topic of discussion, after all, as the author points out, we rarely go on Mexico-binge-drinking-sexfests anymore! Back in college, we probably thought our lives would be much more manly than they [...]

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I have less time and energy in the day than I need to complete everything on my to-do lists. The summer tends to suck the life out of you with oppressive heat and humidity at times, and let’s face it, people just pile more and more shit on your desk! It has been clearly explained [...]

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