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Posts tagged ‘work’

Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated  

Not dead. Busy. And I sort of fell out of the habit. So, here’s what I’ve been up to since April:

Lots of work on BigHugeLabs.com
Bought a pet rat ($7) and accoutrements ($92) for the kids.
Ripped up the weed jungle that my backyard had become and planted Dutch Clover instead of grass. Coming in beautifully. Should [...]

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Coat pockets, contents of  

1 bottle of meclizine hydrochloride motion sickness pills
1 receipt for Ruby’s in Redondo Beach
1 work order for flat tire repair from Sears, directions to same
1 resume
1 pair of destroyed Rayban sunglasses

Every Winter, for the past five or six years, we’ve gone on a whale watching cruise with family and friends on New Year’s day. I [...]

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In which my son expresses his opinion about how I earn a living  

The doorbell rings but I’m not sure I heard it. I lean back in my chair, straining my hearing towards the hallway, and listen. I hear small feet running to the front of the house. “Who is it?” My son’s voice echoes up the stairs and through the hall. No answer. He knows exactly what [...]

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A working condition that can lead to illness or death  

One of the occupational hazards of being a geeky self-employed entrepreneur who runs his own servers is that I am my own IT department. And that means sometimes I am awakened early in the morning by an urgent message from one of my servers. And after it’s fixed I often crawl back into bed. And [...]

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Teamwork  

Wife: So far, I washed the car, ran errands, and picked up The Boy. What did you do today?
Me: Not much. You did a lot this morning, though.
Wife: Oh, you do way more than me.
Me: Pfft! I don’t do anything. You’re the one with three jobs.
Wife: But what you do brings in all the cash. [...]

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