Category: welcome to the working week
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and the award for dumbest news of the week goes to…
the state department, after a “reply-all” storm caused their servers to crash. apparently, not only were people pissed at being included on the reply-all lists, and sent angry replies, but the problem was further compunded by more traffic caused by email recalls. i’m left speechless. read the post and scathing replies on /.
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happy halloween
corporate zombie
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food blog returns: halloween candy meltdown (literally)
so i was really aggravated last night. we just had a major reset done in the cheese department, and i was focusing on the case, figuring out what i should cut. there was some chocolate that i needed to deal with and my big, pretty display i built a couple months ago got pulled down…
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simplifying things, cutting off painful extremities
so last week, erin and i decided to cut off iFreelance for good. we’ve gotten a good run on Elance and we’ve only really gotten 1 fix-it job on iFreelance, the interface isn’t as good, the support and payment isn’t as easy (for either party) or well developed, and the jobs are fewer and tend…
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freelance success!
after a month of being frustrated and writing bids on projects we wouldn’t get, erin and i re-evaluated what we were doing, how we were approaching the business, and what we should be doing. since then, in a little over a week, we’ve scored 7 new projects on Elance and completed 4 of them. saying…
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out of the woods
so just about all i blog about these days is how the web design gig is going. that probably has something to do with the fact that i’ve been dreaming CSS lately. well this post won’t be any different. and i’m still f’ing dreaming CSS… we recently hit a landmark accomplishment. when we were first…
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a free second to type…
so it seems totally contradictory that now that i am home all day i actually have less time to blog than when i was working at albertsons. that probably says something about my job. but that also says something about having kids around and being a parent. and, you know, that part is cool. so,…
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post from the dead
there comes a time in every blog where the blogger just randomly, for no particular reason and with no malicious intent, disappears. try as you might to bitch, moan, and nag the blogger in question, it is, alas, to no avail. it’s happened before on this blog and it undoubtedly will happen again. this particular…
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pointy like my eyeball
topography was yesterday and it’s official, i have Keratoconus, or KC as it’s commonly abbreviated. so the funness comes in here in that i went in for an eye exam, expecting a prescription, on the day my medical benefits from albertsons’ went buh-bye, and now i’ve got a eye condition that needs treatment with no…
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ohgodohgod
so, today is my last day with albertsons. thus concludes Operation GTF Out of ABS. there’s a major safety net that is being removed by this transition. stability, decent insurance, a steady paycheck, a moderate, but highly middle class salary. what’s coming in its’ place is a low-paying (comparatively) P/T job and an unsteady, self-motivated…