Archive for the 'Idle Musings' Category

My insatiable thirst

Monday, September 1st, 2008

I think that everyone has something they can’t get enough of, to whatever end that leads. For some of us, that’s destructive impulses like alcohol or binge eating. For others it’s less destructive stuff like entertainment, or even potentially constructive stuff like exercise.
My theory, though, is that everyone has something they’re like that [...]

Oh shit, I’m a real person now … (or: Temporal Inevitability and Me)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

I’ve been contracting for basically the last year or so. Before that, I was in class working towards graduation, and then working towards getting a job that pays well enough to pay back the student loans and … err … eat.
It’s interesting though. Now that I’m a full-time employee with a permanent position, [...]

Local water

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Do you ever think to yourself something along the lines of … “I am amazed by what I’m seeing, and I will be back tomorrow to see it again and to photograph it” only to learn that tomorrow it will be gone?
So about a block away from my house, there’s a wooded area that apparently [...]

At the crisis point again

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

So I’ve come once again to the question: what do I want to do with my life?
Seriously, I don’t know. I’m considering my current job and my level of satisfaction with it, my other options in my career field, and room for personal growth. I feel like being a sysadmin at this point [...]

What ever happened to the block party?

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

So, I was just thinking to myself…
In the neighborhood I grew up in, I can remember a couple times where the people on a given street would get most of the residents of the street together and have a big block party. There’d be like, big collective cookouts, lots of socializing, lots of kids [...]