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  • Commuting! Oh ye bane of my time! Oh ye cursed destroyer of my schedule!

    So, I’ve found that I’m gone during the workday for eleven and a half hours, when I take the bus back and forth. I leave at 6:25 AM and get back home at 6:00 PM. When taking the bus, the total commute time for the day is about two and a half hours. When I…

  • What a change

    I’m at the end of my first week at this new job. Other than basic logistics (parking, orientation, setting up voicemail, etc.), my time has been spent mostly in classes and preparing to teach classes. So far, I’ve sat in on Access Database Design, Fundamentals of Web Development, and I’m in the middle of a…

  • my sad haiku

    “sorrow more, laugh less” my heart fears the icy wind “wise hearts know to mourn” there – in between a soft heart and no forgiveness – a wound festers, seeps our world is broken: fools know pleasure – but the wise are sad god, mend us

  • A job offer!

    MSU LCTTP called today with an official job offer, which I gladly accepted. I’ll be a full-time instructor in a technology training program at Michigan State University. I start next Monday, June 6th. I’ll have about a week to get situated and learn from the other instructors, then I teach my first course on the…

  • The ‘puter is dead

    So, that computer problem I mentioned back on the 22nd…the computer is finished. I can’t even get an OS to install. Sometimes, it doesn’t even bring up the BIOS. I figure there is one component or another that is fried, thus messing up the whole system. It isn’t the hard drive. I don’t think it…

  • Okay, now I’m pretty irate.

    I’m not sure what the problem with the Windows system is, but it seems pretty big. I can’t even boot up in Safe Mode. It freezes after listing a bunch of system files. I suspect the hard drive is corrupt. The problem is, there are files on that drive that I hadn’t yet made copies…

  • Oh, good news on the job search

    I got some hopeful news from MSU LCTTP on Friday. I’ll know for sure probably in about a week, but it sounds likely they’ll make a solid job offer.

  • MS Win XP buggin out again

    Well, my other computer is back in the corner spinning it’s little Microsoft Windows XP startup routine. It’s been trying to start up for about half an hour now. I got it to get past this little cycle, but then the monitor went to black and never came back. When I left it five hours…

  • Duck!

  • More job apps

    Well, today I applied to three more companies: Synergy Soup Interactive – A local web/multimedia production agency TechSmith – Makers of SnagIt, Camtasia Studio, and Morae software Human Factors International – A large usability consulting, education, and design firm