complich8’s journal

Ok, so here’s the story.
At work, we’ve got exchange calendars. They do everything from meeting and room scheduling to events and outings and all that stuff, with meeting invites carrying along the necessary info to make stuff work in general. It’s pretty slick, but it only works with outlook and outlook web access. [...]

Basically, for those that don’t know, nonflowering trees pollinate differently than most other plants (eg: flowers): rather than insect-mediated pollination (where bugs fly flower-to-flower), a lot of trees do wind-mediated pollination — which means basically from the middle of April through the early part of June, they dump tons of pollen into the air. [...]

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 [...]

It’s really pretty amazing how easy it is to shift from optimistic enthusiasm to abject and somewhat inconsolable depression.
I think my future plans are somewhat coming to a head at this point. I’ve got until the 10th of this month to decide whether to renew my lease or not. If I don’t, I [...]

OK, this entry comes with a prepended perspective check. It’s an entry about sandwiches. That’s all. I know in the global sense, or even in the sort of problems in life that people deal with, this doesn’t amount to a hill of beans, and is really not a big deal. And [...]