Posts from ‘July, 2003’

Sometimes, my life gets so overwhelmingly busy, and at other times so inredibly monotonous, that I fail to see what is right in front of me. Recently, it's been this way. Yesterday, Jess and I were out for lunch. And she got up to refill her drink or something, and I sat there, alone, people [...]

I had one very long, constantly changing dream some time this morning in between the ringing of my alarm. It began at Jess' parents house. Only, the house looked nothing like thiers. We were there visiting. I had packed both of our bags and, now that I was there, I realized I only packed clothes [...]

More and more each day I realize that I am becomming my father's son. Friday night Jess and I went to Keller to visit with my parents, and he and I were discussing buying a home. I mentioned to him how much I loathed the houses that were available in my price range. And it [...]

The last few days have been interesting. Well, not really interesting… just different from my usual routine. Instead of performing my usual day-job functions, I've been helping provision facilities for a new call center we're turning up. In the end, it'll have over 500 seats, and it'll be full within 2 weeks, so we've got [...]

I've decided that, instead of a regular, analog telephone, I'd try VoIP this time around. Specificially, I looked for a device that would allow me to use regular telephones with my broadband internet connection. After reviewing the available options, I decided to go with Packet8. The setup charge is $49.90, but I have a code [...]

On TXU's website, when you sign up for new service, you can assign a secondary name to the account entitled to make changes to your records and services as they see fit. When filling out this information they request the relationship of the secondary individual to the main account holder. Amongst options like "Family Member", [...]

TXU, a company that I loathe with every ounce of my being, is, unfortunately, our designated Electricity service provider at our new apartment. I know that, with deregulation, I have a choice in who provides my service… kind of… but I've tried that before and I either end up paying more money… or I end [...]

A request has been made to see the code that I hacked together that handles the LiveJournal syndication for revjim.net. It isn't clean, it is very specific to my needs, and was written in about 15 minutes. Regardless of that, you can see it here.

Although it seemed that we sent our INS/BCIS paperwork off into a big blackhole never to be heard of or seen again, yesterday Jess received her appointment to receive Employment Authorization and her Advanced Parole (a document allowing her to leave the United States while our case is processing). Score 2 for us.
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(photograph copyright Bennett Miller Company)
Cedars Park Lofts
Yesterday, Jess and I went to see a bunch of lofts. One of them was in the Cedars area of Dallas. For those of you unfamiliar with the Cedars, it is that section of town just south of Downtown and Deep Ellum, after you go under/over I-30. Leasing [...]