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I want to say that Folk Life rocks, even though I didn't hear any rock. Instead, I heard arabic, peruvian, blue grass, celtic, and traditional japanese shakuhachi played by a master.

Yeah, Folk Life rocks

Yesterday was one of those days at work where I spent at least two hours quite literally gritting my teeth. I at least was able to communicate to a higher up that his understanding is nowhere near reality. He sat in the last half hour of that meeting with a look of shock on his face sitting limp in his chair.

OK, I'm annoyed to realize that photos I upload to SG are only viewable to SG members, not my non-member friends who read this blog, so I need to host my photos elsewhere

I'm slighly disgruntled.

I shaved off my goatee today. I think it's been a year since I last did that, but at the time, grew it back almost immediately. I think I'll stay clean shaven for a while this time.

Tomorrow, I'm planning to make the trek down to Mt Hood. I haven't ridden a snowboard now for at least two months, and the withdrawal symptoms have if...
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I was a complete insomniac last night. Not one wink. I don't think I've ever done that before, or at least, have no memory of such an event.

Did you know there are birds chirping at 3:30 AM?

I was in at work before 7:30 this morning in a state that is probably not entirely unlike a drunken haze. I don't think I've ever gotten...
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Hurray for Kung-Fu Movie Night!

Contract recruiters are pushy.

Frack'em. They can deal with me on my terms.

So I semi-randomly got a call from a recruiter today. Nice to know I have options, although unemployment sounds a lot more appealing right now.

I'm also still sick. Hell spawn has been extricating itself from my nasal cavities all day. It's about as fun as it sounds.

Personal pet peeve: Product web pages that (a) lack the information I want, and (b) have broken feedback forms. So not only can't I ask for more information on the product I might want to buy, I also can't tell them their feedback system is broken because they don't post an email address for web support, but instead use the same broken feedback mechanism. I...
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I may either have to join a group and project I don't have any interest in whatsoever, or join Merritt in laid-off land in the not too distant future. Honestly, the latter might be a good thing for me, though I think I would prefer to have it occur around December so I can do the snowboard bum thing.

The other long shot option is...
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