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New job? Hope so!

I am but an inch away from a new, high-paying job with a challenging responsibility. Yes, Monday is the day to speak of! I’ll be interviewing with SBI Technologies for a Senior Functional Analyst position. The salary is nearly one third larger than what I bring home now, and the job itself is similar to [...]

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Wristbands for support

I am growing more annoyed by the increasing quantity of the ever-present wrist bands and car magnets. There was a time when wearing the yellow wrist band to show your support of Lance Armstrong’s Live Strong campaign and slapping a vinyl, magnetic ribbon on the car to show your support for our troops overseas was [...]

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Together for Independance Day

Usually, while I’m very conscious of Independence Day, I don’t do much to show it. I don’t decorate the house with red, white, and blue things, I don’t host a barbecue at the lake, and I don’t go shoot fireworks. Hell, most years I don’t even go out to watch fireworks. But this was Jacyra’s [...]

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Saturday night scare

What now seems like just a dream to Jacyra and I, along with a few other residents of the apartment building we share, was very real. Jacyra and I were beginning to drift off to sleep when we heard the horrifying shriek emanating from outside. It wasn’t a playful scream as we’d usually expect — [...]

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Financial stability

While the better part of the past three years or so were spent running up credit card debt, then pretending to be serious about it, then actually doing something about it, I recently learned that there’s more to wealth than how many numerals appear next to your bank account balances.

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Back to the military

So next week I’ll be shining my boots and updating my ribbons. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be going down to Randolph AFB in San Antonio to in-process my reserve unit. I still haven’t received the rank I earned almost two years ago, but I’ve been assured that I should go ahead and check in [...]

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Die, spammers, die

I received an interesting, if almost nonsensical email message, claiming to be from SPAMIS, or the Strategic Partnership Against Microsoft Illegal Spam (there is a website at spamis.cc, but it seems to be defunct at this time). The contents of the email consisted of various quotes from Mike Lyman, who the email describes as the [...]

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Making progress

So it’s been roughly two weeks since I said Jacyra and I would be going to the gym every day. So far, so good — we’ve stuck to it for the most part. We didn’t go this past Monday since it was a holiday and considered part of our weekend. But other than that, we’ve [...]

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Buffin’ up

While Jacyra has been on her diet to try to slim down, I have done the polite thing and refrained from eating junk as well. It’s just not nice to have those things in the house and eat them in front of her, so I eat more or less the same things she does with [...]

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making the switch, saving some dough

Shortly after seeing the 1,000th television commercial for Cox Communications’ new Digital Telephone service, I became interested. I already have a wireless plan from Sprint which, even after taking off all of the extra stuff (i.e. Internet capabilities), Jacyra and I still shell out about $100 per month for our plan. Well, to cut a [...]

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