Over the past two weeks, several webmasters have contacted me regarding comments I made on their blogs and/or emails I sent them. Normally, I wouldn’t have a problem with this. After all, I leave lots of comments on other blogs and I enjoy reciprocated communication. The problem, however, is that I didn’t actually make any [...]
Or so the little sticker on my shirt tells me. This was actually the first time I’ve ever gotten a chance to vote. I had planned to do so for the 2004 presidentials, but, what with being in the hospital from 4:00 am until 11:30 pm on election day, let’s just say I was indisposed. [...]
The only thing I hate more than looking for work is losing a job in the first place. Thus, I tend to wax emotional when I have to watch good friends get laid off. It’s like a mortar shell narrowly missing you. On the one hand, you’re relieved that it didn’t hit you, but you [...]
It was the first month of my first semester in college. Having decided to stay disciplined away from home, I had signed up for an 8:30 weight training class. I returned from the gym that morning very sweaty and plopped down on the bed in my small dorm room. I lay there for a few [...]
It seems like I’ve been doing a lot of posts like this lately. I don’t like to think my wife and I are suckers, but man it seems like we’ve been getting ripped off a lot in recent memory. I can’t help but think that honest, legitimate businesses just don’t exist anymore. They’ve been driven [...]
To those of you who’ve been tuning in with any regularity, it may seem odd that I haven’t touched my journal in quite some time. After all, it was one of the first blog categories on the site and definitely the one I posted to most frequently until a few months ago. So what happened [...]
My wife and I have been getting all of our affairs in order, laying out a budget and what-not with the move and the new apartment. It’s been a lot to keep track with, considering we’ve never had utility bills and my new job’s benefits require a lot of initial bookkeeping. Despite the fact that [...]
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, my wife has been on my mind a lot lately. Well, I usually think about her plenty anyway, so she’s actually been on my mind more than usual, which is saying something. When I sit down and list it out, it’s really amazing how many and varied are [...]
I suppose everyone has them, even if we don’t think about them very often. I’ve had three major life aspirations that I can remember. The first was graduating from college, which I’ve already achieved. To be honest, I never understood why this was so important to me. Maybe I wanted to make my father proud, [...]
When I went to college, I arbitrarily decided to stop drinking caffeinated drink. I didn’t do this for any particular reason other than curiosity. Like most teenagers, I would regularly consume sodas and, very rarely, coffee, and I was curious how much of my energy needs were actually being met by caffeine. Not being heavily [...]