A year or so ago, my roommates and I noticed, as we were fighting a mouse problem, that one possible access mode to the house was a dogwood that was pretty close to an attic vent. We’ve got wall voids that go pretty much all the way up to the attic, so it seemed like [...]
I realized that I may have spent more last year on coffee and cookies than on giving last year. I’m not sure if that says I’m drinking too much coffee and need to lay off the sweets, or that I was stingier than I thought last year. 2010, 2%. That’s the goal.
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, I’ve [...]
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 [...]
So, I interviewed for a job last week. Some nice people, and someone who I don’t think was enthusiastic about me writing about things like upcoming interviews. Sort of ambivalent on that … But one of the interview questions that one of the unix guys I talked to asked me really struck me, and I [...]
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