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a random shot of existential angst

complich8 — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:50:54 +0000

Will I live long enough to write a memoir? And if I do, will I have had a memorable enough life to write about?

Charitable Giving

complich8 — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:43:44 +0000

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.

Port Salut is delicious.

complich8 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:30:44 +0000

I picked up a 6 ounce piece of port salut to be like half my dinner, and it was just ridiculously good.

I don’t know how cheese connoisseurs eat cheese, or how they describe it to each other. But I know that Port Salut is delicious.

dobsonfly

complich8 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:00:03 +0000

I saw a dobsonfly on the shaded side of a column at work the other day. It was huge. If you’ve never seen one, you should totally hit up wikipedia for them.

great grey slugs are also fascinating.

Just thought I’d share…

At the crisis point again

complich8 — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:38:09 +0000

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 is somewhat a surrender to the mediocrity that stalks me, threatening to sap away those things I most value about myself.

Maybe spending my life in the land of computers is the wrong choice. Or maybe just in IT. But would making a different choice require me to essentially become a different person, rejecting the me that will be on this path for the me that might be on another? Or is continuing down the path I’m on a rejection of the me that should be on that path but isn’t?

So do I boldly take the next step down this path, or turn around and walk a new one, or do I just let myself slide?