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Tonight, I saw an ex-coworker, who in the past year has been divorced and laid off. First he asked me if I thought it was possible he'd ever find a woman again, and I did my best to console him.

Last I saw of him, he was going to look for a hooker.

I'm honestly glad that I don't have a word for the way...
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I fought a migraine all day, and I've been fighting my own growing perception that I'm reverting to my asshole ways for days now.

Even so, I'd still not trade my life less ordinary.

null and MisterSatan vs. Crappy Internet Memes


Null: One of my online type friends sent me this silly shit about iTunes being psychic. You set iTunes on random and see what song comes up next to a set of questions.

MisterSatan: Heh.

Null: I was pretty geeked when I found out that "Welcome to the Terrordome" would be played at my funeral.

MisterSatan: Cool!

MisterSatan:...
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I just booked a trip to Tokyo for my birthday. I intend to have my birthday steak high atop the best hotel in Tokyo. If I'm going to go, I'm going to go big.

Yesterday morning, my new job had a major launch of the site redesign. To celebrate, we were going to have waffles (made in a professional-style flippy wafflemaker, no less) and sausage,...
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Tomorrow is my last day at my current job. I've cleared out the office, taken my nameplate down, cleaned up my hard drive, taken some pictures, done my exit interview, and written drafts of my goodbye emails. I feel a little empty and a little sad. My therapist said that I have an attachment disorder, and days like today, I kind of wish she'd been...
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It's not about butthole pleasures at all.

I tendered my resignation today, and for as much as that job has made me miserable more than once, I ended up staring out over the oddly-frigid expanse of Bellevue with tears in my eyes. I'm not sure why, so I'm just going to chalk it up to an infantile anger that leaving wasn't fully on my own terms. Thinking that I'd actually grown attached...
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Sitting at home tonight, I remembered one of those vintage moments that make up the fabric of my life. It wasn't big or flashy, but thinking about it makes me smile still. Those moments that make our lives truly worth living.

Years and years ago when I was a junior in college, I was helping out at a very nerdy convention. Not nerdy like LARPing...
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I found a new job. That makes the total time in limbo about twenty-four days, but since two weeks of that was killed by Christmas, I think I did okay. I also got another of the layoff victims a job at the same place with me.

Grand total for being laid off is: no loss of income, several thousand dollars in bonuses and pay outs,...
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I love packing for a trip. I don't always love the airport or flying or anything else, but there is a certain zen to packing that makes me feel okay.

As always, my technology marches forward making my travel lighter. Just as an MP3 player (an old Creative Nomad) replaced CDs and CD-related paraphernalia, a e-ink book has replaced the novels that I usually carry....
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Today, I was informed that I would be laid off on the second of February.

I said to my boss, "The Japanese have a saying, 'The nail that sticks up gets hammered.'"

He asked, "What do you mean by that?"

I smiled and replied, "It means that I'd rather work with competent carpenters."

Edit: I also think I ruined their whole thing when I started...
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Friday morning, cold weather and dreary traffic. I was climbing the hill toward the freeway, and a white Subaru WRX STI went barreling past. I looked myself in the mirror, smile, and slammed the clutch down with my worn black Chucks. Just then, "Leper Messiah" started playing, and I smiled. Five miles of high speed daredevilry through heavy traffic later, I waved to my playmate...
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