Archive for July, 2007

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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Oh man … this is just a beautiful life convergence here … it’s like somehow managing to thread a needle perfectly with a dowel rod. Insane.
My sublease ends midnight July 26th. That’s … Thursday. So a little insane, right?
Well, this afternoon (Monday, the 23rd), I got the call, I got the job [...]

The DC interview adventure

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

For the last week or two, I’ve been sort of courted by this recruiter from the DC metro area, who’s recruiting for this very large government contractor in the same area. I’ve had other recruiters and other jobs nibbling, but this one sort of largemouth-bass’ed the hook and charged off with it.
By which I [...]

Server migrations (or, “How I spent the last month of my life”)

Monday, July 16th, 2007

So, the last couple of weeks I’ve been pretty preoccupied by this whole server migration process, but it’s about wrapped up and I’m feeling pretty good about it overall, so I’ll go ahead and tell the tale now. But it might be boring and technical, I dunno :p.
About … the middle of April, the [...]

Average-case mood drift

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

I’m noticing in myself what I can only describe as average-case mood drift. Like, my good moods are great, my bad moods are as bad as they ever were … the peaks aren’t changing, and aren’t even changing frequency all that much.
But lately my average-case mood has been sliding lower. I can sort [...]