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The Struggle Is Real

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I’m beginning to wonder when life will give me a break. While projects at work loom over me like an avalanche waiting to happen, the parenting adventure thre...

Going Around In Circles

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I’ve returned photos to the WordPress incarnation of my blog. If nothing else, they brighten it up a bit. Publishing purely textual posts becomes awfully rep...

Whats It All About

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I’m sitting in the dark of the junk room at home, the soft glow of the computer screen lighting my fingers as they dance over the keyboard. I sat down to wri...

What Happened To The Weekend

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Douglas Adams once wrote “I love Deadlines - I like the whooshing sound as they fly by”. I’m starting to think the same way about weekends. Since finishing w...

Staggering Towards The Weekend

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I started writing this post an hour go. I’m not quite sure where that hour went. Perhaps it had something to do with the bottle of wine I bought on the way h...

A Nocturnal Adventure

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After making it to bed a little after midnight last night, I had just put my book down, turned the light out, put the phone on charge, and was drifting off t...

Sideways

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Today was one of those days where I tried valiantly to go forwards, but ended up going sideways, no matter how hard I tried. Have you ever had a day like tha...

Experimenting

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While writing these words, a python script of my own invention is slowly delivering the motherload of all blog backups to write.as - the blogging platform I ...

Sunday

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While sitting in Starbucks with Miss 18 this morning I installed the latest Harry Potter game on my phone (by the same company that made Pokemon Go). I won’t...

Slowly And Quietly

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It’s the weekend! Finally a chance to decompress from work, kick back, watch movies, read books, and remember that life still exists away from source code, c...