Well go back a few months and you'll see a now useless blog post referencing my perfect job.

I was laid off yesterday with no notice, not severance and not even enough respect from the owner to have the stones to tell me himself. Our company had been fighting for some capital to make up for some really poorly timed large scale expenses (2 new retail store buildings and a new warehouse facility to name a few). The owner (who I reported directly to) kept painting a rosy picture of...

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Now it's not quite as bad as it seems, but I find myself jumping from one online addiction to another. For a while it was Biorust, but sadly I've drifted into a bit of obscurity on here. I started spending way too much time on Jellyfish.com smack-shopping. If you haven't been there, don't go. It's like crack. Lately it's been obsession with my fantasy baseball sim league. Hours and hours of research on which 9 players to select in the draft. Now that the draft is over, it's "how can I improve...

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I tend to be a very happy guy, so part of me hates posting things like this, but then again it's healthy to talk about stuff that makes you uncomfortable...

3 days ago my wife called me from work (she works in a hospital). An old co-worker of hers had come in to the ER with an infection and ended up not making it (apparently she didn't have a spleen to help fight the infection). She was 30 years old (same age as my wife) had a 3 year old and a 4 month old (our kids are 20 months...

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I have about 3000 songs in my iTunes right now and about 2000 of them are rated by me on a 5-star scale (mind you I've deleted a lot of 1 star songs too):

1 Star (Going to be deleted 'cause I'll never listen to it)
2 Stars (not horrible, but don't care for it either, ok to shuffle through)
3 Stars (decent song, kind of a catch all good song category)
4 Stars (very good song)
5 Stars (Great song)

Now it's relatively easy for a song to obtain...

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