I'm Wanted
Mar. 22nd, 2009 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebAfter having been silent so long, I feel like I should have something really special to say before posting again. On the other hand, maybe I should quit waiting for magic and get back into the habit anyway.
Since we last met, I have taken a rather long sabbatical from learning to program in 24 hours, but started up again last night.
There has been a move and fight and a death to make my personal life a little more interesting that normal. I learned that, at my current fitness level, carrying boxes up stairs most taxes my biceps.
I have jogged every weekend this year except one when I was sick. I really didn't expect to keep it up, but so far I have.
I think I have made slight improvements in some of my other habits: keeping track of a to-do list and eating less crap. Probably in part because of the to-do list, I have gotten several things done that are the sorts of things I like to put off and forget about. For example, I called around to look for a cheaper price for long distance service (I think I found it, but I won't know for sure until I get the bill with all the taxes and fees added in). I made a plan for diversifying my Roth IRA. (You don't want all your eggs in one basket unless, of course, you have only one egg. But I've had several eggs for some time now. Let's not talk about how all the baskets I know about are rather flimsy.) And I have taken all the steps I can for now to put that plan into action.
Robin has put in a giant garden this year, by which I mostly mean way too many tomato plants, but there are also peppers, greens, limes, and other stuff. I, too, have planted more things (a strawberry plant, a blueberry tree, lemon thyme), and it appears that all but one of the eight things I planted last fall are still living. The eighth thing looks dead, but it may still get its leaves back and there's a shoot right next to it that may be the same plant. My favorite thing that is still living is my walnut, which has been a stick all winter but is now making lots of leaves.
I vowed to clean my desk at work during spring break, but continuous little projects--essay requests, really--have kept me from that task. I once again have that feeling that it's not a good time to quit (and not just because of the economy). The only other person who really knows his stuff in the system I work with has been threatened that if he quits in the next three to four years (before we re-write the system), his boss will find him and kill him. No, I do not work for the mafia. Of course that was a joke or, actually, a joke-like exaggeration of a very serious matter. My boss says it like this: "Isn't it good to know you're wanted?"
Since we last met, I have taken a rather long sabbatical from learning to program in 24 hours, but started up again last night.
There has been a move and fight and a death to make my personal life a little more interesting that normal. I learned that, at my current fitness level, carrying boxes up stairs most taxes my biceps.
I have jogged every weekend this year except one when I was sick. I really didn't expect to keep it up, but so far I have.
I think I have made slight improvements in some of my other habits: keeping track of a to-do list and eating less crap. Probably in part because of the to-do list, I have gotten several things done that are the sorts of things I like to put off and forget about. For example, I called around to look for a cheaper price for long distance service (I think I found it, but I won't know for sure until I get the bill with all the taxes and fees added in). I made a plan for diversifying my Roth IRA. (You don't want all your eggs in one basket unless, of course, you have only one egg. But I've had several eggs for some time now. Let's not talk about how all the baskets I know about are rather flimsy.) And I have taken all the steps I can for now to put that plan into action.
Robin has put in a giant garden this year, by which I mostly mean way too many tomato plants, but there are also peppers, greens, limes, and other stuff. I, too, have planted more things (a strawberry plant, a blueberry tree, lemon thyme), and it appears that all but one of the eight things I planted last fall are still living. The eighth thing looks dead, but it may still get its leaves back and there's a shoot right next to it that may be the same plant. My favorite thing that is still living is my walnut, which has been a stick all winter but is now making lots of leaves.
I vowed to clean my desk at work during spring break, but continuous little projects--essay requests, really--have kept me from that task. I once again have that feeling that it's not a good time to quit (and not just because of the economy). The only other person who really knows his stuff in the system I work with has been threatened that if he quits in the next three to four years (before we re-write the system), his boss will find him and kill him. No, I do not work for the mafia. Of course that was a joke or, actually, a joke-like exaggeration of a very serious matter. My boss says it like this: "Isn't it good to know you're wanted?"
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on 2009-03-23 10:46 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2009-03-25 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
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on 2009-03-25 03:19 am (UTC)Thanks for the encouragement about meeting my goals. I had to return the book that teaches me to program in 24 hours even though I'd completed only 14 hours. But I suppose I can check it out again later. Meanwhile, if you have enough goals, you're bound to meet some of them. And I have!
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on 2009-03-25 09:55 pm (UTC)Bosses who say "Isn't it good to know you're wanted?" should probably be taken out and shot.
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on 2009-03-25 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2009-03-26 01:50 am (UTC)He can't be taken out and shot, because then I'd have to do his job!
Yes, I've heard that planting even one zucchini plant might be too many. And not just if you don't like zucchini.
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on 2009-03-26 10:00 pm (UTC)