Life, or a Reasonable Facsimile

Random thoughts

2006-05-03T17:27:00.000-05:00

Thank God for all the blessings He gives.

My kids are so weird sometimes - but that's just fine by me.

Statistically, I have about half of my life to live. It's about time to start getting it right, and I fully intend to.

I worry about Iran. This situation has the potential to wreck the global economy, if not provoke a fairly widespread war.

That's it for now.

Re-employed!

2006-05-01T18:36:00.000-05:00

... and very happy about it. BB&T seems like a great company, the money is quite good, much less of a commute. I wish I would have landed this job a year ago, but some things just take some time.

Attention Darryl P...

2006-02-24T12:19:00.000-05:00

... I sent you a couple of e-mails, from pjh8768@yahoo.com. Let me know if you got them.

What a job this would be....

2006-02-23T15:59:00.000-05:00

Unfortunately, I'm not nearly qualified, and it would be a hell of a commute, but this would be way cool:

http://www.jobsearch.org/NC/seeker/jobscouts/previousruns?action=JobSearchViewJob&JobSearch_JobId=15326339&JobSearchType=JobSearch

The Dubai Ports World deal

2006-02-23T14:35:00.000-05:00

Let me take this opportunity to say that I don't buy into the hysteria about the ports deal. GWB didn't have a tin ear politically, if it's true that he didn't know about the deal before it was in the media, and it's his M.O. to defend his administration's actions - loyalty from the top down. And until somebody can make a good case that having a company from the UAE, specifically, running these ports poses an increased risk to homeland security, I'm not buying that argument. I mean, they'll just be writing checks to the dockwokers while the Coast Guard and Customs do the actual security work. So everybody just take a deep breath, and let's find something more important to fret about...

... like the statement by THK spokesman Xavier Hermasillo that those of us who got laid of on 2/9 received a "severance package" (http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/410624.html). Is there something coming to us that we're unaware of? Anyone? Bueller???

BTW, the interview today seemed to go well. Different people and companies definitley have different interviewing styles, I'll say that.

More to come....

Moving right along...

2006-02-22T13:01:00.000-05:00

I have an interview tomorrow.

That's all I can think to say, for now.

More MarketSmart Interactive

2006-02-19T10:06:00.000-05:00

http://www.techjournalsouth.com/news/article.html?item_id=1174

But...

http://www.jupiterevents.com/sew/winter06/msi.html

at a price of...

http://www.jupiterevents.com/sew/winter06/sponsorships.html

...???

MarketSmart Interactive

2006-02-14T20:46:00.000-05:00

Regarding MarketSmart Interactive...

I'm now a former employee, as are many other people lately. Won't (can't?) comment further for now.

More signs the Apocalypse is upon us

2005-12-28T15:36:00.000-05:00

Jeez - someone actually read my blog? Cool. Of course, if I had anything interesting to say, it would be even cooler.

Another day...

2005-11-18T15:58:00.000-05:00

... in my less than completely exciting life. Can't write too much of anything of importance - not with my name on it at this point, anyway. Maybe I'll start another - right-wing blooger type stuff. Yeah! See ya there.

Zzzzzzzzz........

2004-08-05T15:37:00.000-05:00

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Ulysses

2004-07-30T12:17:00.000-05:00

OK, kiddies, ready for some free association, random train of thought kinda stuff? No? Too bad.

I would like - I would like, I would like a trip to Europe - I would like to introduce myself. But I won't. Instead, I will hop up and down on one leg. Of course, it would be difficult for me to just hop up on one leg, wouldn't it? I mean, on this planet or any other, if you hop up, you will come back down, gravity and all that.

Speaking of which, wasn't Stephen Hawking losing his bet about black holes somehow supposed to cause the complete annihilation of all matter and energy in the universe? I thought it was. Luckily, or perhaps unluckily, it wasn't.

How many contractions have I typed so far? Why am I asking you?

I like ice cream.

Isn't there some way to take all the money from people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and Teresa Heinz Kerry and just divvy it up amongst all of us lowly peasants? Oh, wait, now I remember, there is a way. It's called either communism, or the Democratic Party platform - I always get those confused.

Speaking of the Democrats and Kerry.... Nah, let's not speak about them. I'll fall asleep on my desk.

Hold on - gotta read an e-mail.

OK - I'm back.

Like Donald Fagan said, "It's nasty weather for July." Where the hell is the summer, dammit? Not that I can enjoy it anyway (ref. earlier posts re: wife's accident).

No more for me thanks, I'm driving.

Beats me

2004-07-29T15:47:00.000-05:00

Another day, another couple of dollars. As previously noted, I'm dead-dog tired (apologies to the dead-dog-loving crowd). Hopefully I'll have a chance to relax by and in the pool this weekend, although I suspect that Jean will want and need to catch up on sleep, leaving me to watch over both kids yet again. Well, what're ya gonna do?

Today's quote: "The sky had a baby from my cereal box!!!"

Signs the Apocolypse is Near, or My Daily Commute

2004-07-21T14:31:00.000-05:00

I hate driving. Simply put, but true. Now, I don't mean that I dislike driving, or that driving on certain roads gives my agita, or that I'm not fond of my current motor vehicle. I mean, I hate driving.

I live on Long Island. It may not be the traffic capital of the world, but it does seem to have more than its share of bumper-to-bumper slowdowns (and stops), as well as a plethora of bad drivers. Such things used to just annoy me, back when I first became a commuter lo these thirteen years ago. Over time, as conditions became worse, they began to really piss me off, and now they have succeeded in frightening me. I will admit that much of my current state of mind is due to my wife's recent accident (see last post). However, in driving about a hundred miles a day for much of the past two years, I have seen drivers do things that... well, frankly they defy any reasonable explanation.

I take that last bit back. The things that a lot of drivers do are actually easily explainable. Plainly put, they care neither about the law nor about anyone other than themselves. And this, gentle reader, stokes in me the belief that this country is well on its way to hell in a handbasket. I will expound on this in future posts (here's a napkin to wipe up your drool).

In the meantime, if you are the type of driver who speeds like the highway is your own personal ractrack, tailgates so close that you're in the other driver's back seat, slams on your brakes for no apparent reason, rubbernecks, etc., please... STOP.

Today's movie quote: "This IS Seti Alpha Five!"

My first blog! Woo-hoo!

2004-07-20T16:21:00.000-05:00

Aloha, all.

Thus starts my first blog post, nearly two weeks after I registered here at Blogger. Why the delay, pray tell? Because some chick from Hawaii broadsided my wife's car after going through a red light, that's why. She's basically OK, thank God, but qualifies under NY law as being "seriously injured" with a broken shoulder blade and some cracked ribs (with a partially collapsed lung, to boot). So I was out of work almost all last week, this morning, and will be part of Thursday, et cetera and so on. Oh, and when I'm home, since my wife can't use her left arm, I get to do all of the child rearing duties - you know, changing diapers, feeding and stuff. In short, I have had zero time for myself, which is actually only a small reduction from the miniscule amount of time I had for myself before the accident, and add in that I have only a crappy NetZero internet connection at home, and that's why my blog has been blogless until now. OK, so that wasn't short. Sue me. Hey, that's what we're doing to the chick from Hawaii!

And now, gentle reader, come my hopefully-humorous addenda.

Today's movie quote: "I would like to have seen Montana."