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My company still managed to lose the contract that I saved last week in a display of high-pressure heroics. I'm very depressed.

At least I still have Jet Li movies.

After a strenuous afternoon of doing laundry, cooking, and reading GQ, I've retired to watch Menace II Society. Someone said recently that I'm an odd mix of redneck and sophisticate. I think she was partly right, but to be precise, she'd have to add a lot of things to the mix.

I'm so looking forward to a calm, quiet weekend. I don't have any plans more strenuous than getting a haircut.

What can you say about a day where you save a multi-million dollar contract from the stupidity of the low-ball subcontractors your company used in less than five hours only to walk into a noxious cloud of metal paint fumes and vomit all over the elevator?

Yeah, I don't know either.

We put everything in place to switch on our first data customer come Monday night. This is the culmination of nearly a year of hard work for me. I should be excited, but instead I'm just exhausted.

I've decided that I love the automatic ticket machines at movie theaters. I love not needing to interact with another human being who will look at you strange...
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Today I was reminded of how happy I am that I'm not the boss any longer. I hate coordinating people, and I really hate that they can't make choices for themselves. "How's it going?" "The IP addresses aren't configured on this computer." "Do you know how to configure them?" "Yes." After a few seconds wait while he stares at me blankly, "Well, configure them." "Okay."...
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Today:

- I started on the massive project to rip all my CDs. At a rate of roughly eight minutes per CD, I'm guessing I could get it done in eighteen days of ten hour shifts. Thus, I'm guessing I'll have it done about the same time the rapture hits.
- I avoided doing something at work that I didn't think was a good idea...
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I'm tired of having that entry there. It's unusual for me to lash out like that.

I'm really tired and want Taco Bell. I'm obviously not fully in my right mind. Oddly, I'm also thinking about starting to commute to work by bike. Further proof that I'm going insane? Who knows.

Farmer's market tomorrow morning and a long weekend of reading. That's what I need.

Today after answering the same question for the-I-don't-knowst time in the last five months, I punched the whiteboard in my office hard enough to tear the skin of three knuckles on my left hand. I really don't like to be asked the same question repeatedly just because people don't like the answer.

Still tired. I recommend seeing Batman Begins if you have any soul. I'm considering inventing a grilled cheese and teriyaki chicken sandwich.

Today at work: go-to guy; people waiting three-deep to talk to me at more than one point in the day.

Today at home: space monkey; I can't read a simple sentence properly and lack the attention span to watch a cartoon.

For a change of pace, I thought I might actually write about my life for a moment. Bizarre, I know.

Work is eating me alive right now. Before the end of the month, I'll be responsible for starting the data services for our first cellphone company. That said company is one of the largest regional carriers in the US, there is utter chaos surrounding the...
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