Because I love her.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Descent into Madness - Day 14
Have a phone interview today. We'll see how it goes.
Jennifer and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary last night. Her mother and Mom and Skip sent us very nice cards.
Studying for accounting. Its an open book final, which is both good and bad. Good in that it lets me use my notes and my book, BAD because it gives the professor full leeway to use REALLY REALLY hard questions like he has been doing on the quiz. At this stage in the game as long as I get a 50% on the final I can still (I believe) graduate without having to retake the class.
Oh, and for those interested, I've created a new meme on http://memesofmyfather.blogspot.com/.
Jennifer and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary last night. Her mother and Mom and Skip sent us very nice cards.
Studying for accounting. Its an open book final, which is both good and bad. Good in that it lets me use my notes and my book, BAD because it gives the professor full leeway to use REALLY REALLY hard questions like he has been doing on the quiz. At this stage in the game as long as I get a 50% on the final I can still (I believe) graduate without having to retake the class.
Oh, and for those interested, I've created a new meme on http://memesofmyfather.blogspot.com/.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Descent into Madness - Day 12
This weekend we saw "Nowhere in Africa" via Netflix. OK.
Jackie Brown via Dish. Very good. Although watching a Terentino film for the first time on TNT is...inadvisable. Hearing Samuel L. Jackson say "oh snap!" and sound like he means it in that circumstance is a bit surreal.
Battlestar Galactica is nearly done and still quite good.
There is a new show called Dollhouse by Joss Whedon which is quite good. If you want to see it and support it, its online at Hulu.com, which is pretty cool because it is measured and the closest you can get to being a nielson family without being a nielson family (or so I am told.)
Job search is going OK. No job yet, but I had an interview last Thursday with Jennifer's company. We'll see how things go. I'm supposed to hear back from them in the next few days. It would be a short term contract. I have another phone interview Wednesday.
I've been doing OK in the Accounting Class thus far. Jennifer has been invaluable in helping me study for this. I'm still very worried about the final.
Jackie Brown via Dish. Very good. Although watching a Terentino film for the first time on TNT is...inadvisable. Hearing Samuel L. Jackson say "oh snap!" and sound like he means it in that circumstance is a bit surreal.
Battlestar Galactica is nearly done and still quite good.
There is a new show called Dollhouse by Joss Whedon which is quite good. If you want to see it and support it, its online at Hulu.com, which is pretty cool because it is measured and the closest you can get to being a nielson family without being a nielson family (or so I am told.)
Job search is going OK. No job yet, but I had an interview last Thursday with Jennifer's company. We'll see how things go. I'm supposed to hear back from them in the next few days. It would be a short term contract. I have another phone interview Wednesday.
I've been doing OK in the Accounting Class thus far. Jennifer has been invaluable in helping me study for this. I'm still very worried about the final.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Descent into Madness Day 7 - The first casualty
We are going to have to stop trying to have children for now.
The stress of being off medication has been increasing for Jennifer for each month now, and now that she is the sole provider for our family, despite generous offers of help and reserves, that does not change the fact that it is stressful for her. In turn, the stress of my own job search plus school is high enough, much less any stress that Jennifer is experiencing.
As such, Jennifer is going back on Medication for a few months and then we'll plan things a bit more carefully the next time around. I estimate we'll be trying again in 6-7 months.
The stress of being off medication has been increasing for Jennifer for each month now, and now that she is the sole provider for our family, despite generous offers of help and reserves, that does not change the fact that it is stressful for her. In turn, the stress of my own job search plus school is high enough, much less any stress that Jennifer is experiencing.
As such, Jennifer is going back on Medication for a few months and then we'll plan things a bit more carefully the next time around. I estimate we'll be trying again in 6-7 months.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Day 4 of the Descent into Madness
Well its pretty early, and the mental stresses are starting to come in. But honestly a lot of that is more due to the political situation. I won't comment on that here, but you can always go to codex to see my latest rant.
Jennifer is amusing herself by harassing me while writing this. :) But it is a good thing. She just popped her head back in the door and said, "Why did I miss you giving me a really funny look?" Turn about is fair play after all.
I spent most of Monday and Tuesday taking care of logistics. Monday involved getting our taxes fixed as well as sending the fax to receive my severance package. Because of the confidentiality clause in the contract, I can't say much, but let me put it this way. Remember all the stuff they put in the contract you sign when you get a job?
Well triple it for the contract you sign to get your severance package. It isn't them btw, because apparently this is standard practice now. OpenSpan IS a good company. How about a law that prevents me having to sign a contract like that to get a severance package?
Tuesday was a trip to the unemployment office. I got a really helpful lady who helped me bypass all of the red tape and get directly to a terminal instead of having to take the class that told me how to use a web page (which had all necessary directions on it.) The good news is that judging by the job search and the number of people in the unemployment office on the surface things don't seem as bad as I thought they were. Oh sure its bad, but ironically not dot com bad. But that may just be here in Atlanta. Then again, Skip's lay off shows that things ARE that bad.
Jennifer is amusing herself by harassing me while writing this. :) But it is a good thing. She just popped her head back in the door and said, "Why did I miss you giving me a really funny look?" Turn about is fair play after all.
I spent most of Monday and Tuesday taking care of logistics. Monday involved getting our taxes fixed as well as sending the fax to receive my severance package. Because of the confidentiality clause in the contract, I can't say much, but let me put it this way. Remember all the stuff they put in the contract you sign when you get a job?
Well triple it for the contract you sign to get your severance package. It isn't them btw, because apparently this is standard practice now. OpenSpan IS a good company. How about a law that prevents me having to sign a contract like that to get a severance package?
Tuesday was a trip to the unemployment office. I got a really helpful lady who helped me bypass all of the red tape and get directly to a terminal instead of having to take the class that told me how to use a web page (which had all necessary directions on it.) The good news is that judging by the job search and the number of people in the unemployment office on the surface things don't seem as bad as I thought they were. Oh sure its bad, but ironically not dot com bad. But that may just be here in Atlanta. Then again, Skip's lay off shows that things ARE that bad.
Monday, February 9, 2009
And so begins the long slow descent into madness
Day 1. Things seem mostly fine. There is this annoying persistent ringing in my ears that I hope goes away. I'll see the doc on Wed if it doesn't.
Over the weekend we saw mom in Romeo and Juliet. I've seen her in this thing four times and this one was by far the best. Female director, but the last two before that had male and were vastly improved which tells me that their new assistant producer might also have a hand in improving things. Dunno, but it is all around better.
Coraline rocks. We saw a twilight showing Sunday. From now on we'll be watching movies at the drive in or early morning shows I think.
No concrete leads, but a few might be leads. We'll see how things go.
Over the weekend we saw mom in Romeo and Juliet. I've seen her in this thing four times and this one was by far the best. Female director, but the last two before that had male and were vastly improved which tells me that their new assistant producer might also have a hand in improving things. Dunno, but it is all around better.
Coraline rocks. We saw a twilight showing Sunday. From now on we'll be watching movies at the drive in or early morning shows I think.
No concrete leads, but a few might be leads. We'll see how things go.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Weekly Update
Well, I had a nifty birthday. There were three celebrations. Monday, we hung out with Mom, Skip and Grandma. We had Raging Burrito + Talked a lot. It was fun. Mom gave me a Jane hat, which at first I thought was the hat from Goober and the Ghost Chasers, either of which would be awesome. They also gave me a gift certificate and a check, which combined with Dad's present will pay for a good chunk of Nintendo Wii.
Wednesday Jennifer made a plethora of Splenda cookies, which were all quite good. We had cake and icecream and watched "Into the Wild" which was pretty good. I liked it, but Jennifer wasn't so thrilled about the under lying message ("Crazy boy is angry at his parents so he drops off of the face of the earth for two years without telling anyone where he is going and then goes into the Alaskan wilderness where he starves to death.") It isn't exactly positive and uplifting....I do grant that. Though there was a fascinating undercurrent to the whole thing that I found fascinating from a story telling perspective. Jennifer is getting me a TomTom navigation thing so we can drop the nav feature from our cell phones. She also got me "Team of Rivals" (which Obama has read and sounds fascinating) and THE MOST AWESOME BIRTHDAY CARD EVER! :) (it is one of those singing kinds, and this one does 'the banana boat song').
Saturday night Julie, Todd, Jennifer and I went to see Slumdog Millionare. It is awesome on toast. Julie and Todd paid for the refreshments as part of my present and there is mention of another object. Afterwards, we went to get desert at TGI Fridays.
Good week despite the plethora of errands and nickle/dime/to death/expenses for this week. :) (Which started with the second half of a root canal this morning, but HEY, better than having them continue making that nice black blob on the x ray indicating the infection was previously slowly eating into the bone....Its all a matter of perspective :) )
Wednesday Jennifer made a plethora of Splenda cookies, which were all quite good. We had cake and icecream and watched "Into the Wild" which was pretty good. I liked it, but Jennifer wasn't so thrilled about the under lying message ("Crazy boy is angry at his parents so he drops off of the face of the earth for two years without telling anyone where he is going and then goes into the Alaskan wilderness where he starves to death.") It isn't exactly positive and uplifting....I do grant that. Though there was a fascinating undercurrent to the whole thing that I found fascinating from a story telling perspective. Jennifer is getting me a TomTom navigation thing so we can drop the nav feature from our cell phones. She also got me "Team of Rivals" (which Obama has read and sounds fascinating) and THE MOST AWESOME BIRTHDAY CARD EVER! :) (it is one of those singing kinds, and this one does 'the banana boat song').
Saturday night Julie, Todd, Jennifer and I went to see Slumdog Millionare. It is awesome on toast. Julie and Todd paid for the refreshments as part of my present and there is mention of another object. Afterwards, we went to get desert at TGI Fridays.
Good week despite the plethora of errands and nickle/dime/to death/expenses for this week. :) (Which started with the second half of a root canal this morning, but HEY, better than having them continue making that nice black blob on the x ray indicating the infection was previously slowly eating into the bone....Its all a matter of perspective :) )
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